Used for demo.

imgreaderdemo.py

from SimpleCV import * 
from tesseract import * 
import datetime
import json
import re
import os, time



# path= "/home/shruthi/Desktop/cxa/images/"
path= "/home/shruthi/x/images/07/"
# path2= "/home/shruthi/x/files/07/"
# for i in xrange (6,15): 
filename="0101.jpg"
# filename= "Electric15.jpg"

os.system('clear')


img= Image(path+filename)

a= img.show()

time.sleep(5)

bined= img.binarize(200)

b= bined.show()

text = bined.readText() 

date= str(datetime.datetime.now())

convert= re.findall('\d+', text)
convert= int(convert[0])

time.sleep(4)

		# listes = [{"postcode": 600001, "unit":"#01-01", "time": date, "value": convert, "imgUrl": "images/07/0101.jpg"},
		# {"postcode": 600001, "unit":"#01-02", "time": "2014-07-01 12:00:00", "value": 69568, "imgUrl": "images/07/0102.jpg"},
		# {"postcode": 600001, "unit":"#01-03", "time": "2014-07-01 12:00:00", "value": 7576, "imgUrl": "images/07/0103.jpg"},
		# {"postcode": 600001, "unit":"#01-04", "time": "2014-07-01 12:00:00", "value": 19676, "imgUrl": "images/07/0104.jpg"}
		# ]

		# with open(path2+ '600001.json', 'w') as outfile:
		# 	json.dump(listes, outfile)

		# vartime= time.ctime(mtime)



print "###############################################################"
print "\n"
print "Number extracted from image: %r" %convert
print "\n"
print "###############################################################"