# initialize the list of results results = [] # loop over the bounding boxes for (startX, startY, endX, endY) in boxes: # scale the bounding box coordinates based on the respective # ratios startX = int(startX * rW) startY = int(startY * rH) endX = int(endX * rW) endY = int(endY * rH) # in order to obtain a better OCR of the text we can potentially # apply a bit of padding surrounding the bounding box -- here we # are computing the deltas in both the x and y directions dX = int((endX - startX) * args["padding"]) dY = int((endY - startY) * args["padding"]) # apply padding to each side of the bounding box, respectively startX = max(0, startX - dX) startY = max(0, startY - dY) endX = min(origW, endX + (dX * 2)) endY = min(origH, endY + (dY * 2)) # extract the actual padded ROI roi = orig[startY:endY, startX:endX]