title: Extracting lines from an image to feed to OCR - Tesseract
body: <p>I was watching this talk from pycon <a href="http://youtu.be/B1d9dpqBDVA?t=15m34s" rel="noreferrer">http://youtu.be/B1d9dpqBDVA?t=15m34s</a> around the 15:33 mark the speaker talks about extracting lines from an image (receipt) and then feeding that to the OCR engine so that text can be extracted in a better way. </p>
  
  <p>I have a similar need where I'm passing images to the OCR engine. However, I don't quite understand what he means by extracting lines from an image. What are some open source tools that I can use to extract lines from an image? </p>