What is wrong with Tesseract ?

2011-04-26 Thread james tate
F14 I saved a text letter with gimp or xsane as a tif file and used tesseract to covert it to txt, Run this command to convert; tesseract out.tif out.txt And I got this output, what gives ? (9se91d ‘.l9AO) _[T`l:].I9AiO 1SOLU;S‘EO!l9UIV_ 30 11ed'Bu19q sg '1s9q 9L11_s1g9u9q_19qw9wT}1N

Re: What is wrong with Tesseract ?

2011-04-26 Thread james tate
On 04/26/2011 03:00 PM, james tate wrote: F14 I saved a text letter with gimp or xsane as a tif file and used tesseract to covert it to txt, Run this command to convert; tesseract out.tif out.txt And I got this output, what gives ? (9se91d ‘.l9AO) _[T`l:].I9AiO 1SOLU;S‘EO!l9UIV_ 30

Re: What is wrong with Tesseract ?

2011-04-26 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:29 AM, james tate binary...@comcast.net wrote: what language pack, there is no english pack in the fedora repo. I don't know about how Fedora packages it - like I said, it's a wild stab in the dark :-) From: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ Important Download

Re: What is wrong with Tesseract ?

2011-04-26 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 19:29 -0400, james tate wrote: On 04/26/2011 07:15 PM, Chris Smart wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:00 AM, james tatebinary...@comcast.net wrote: And I got this output, what gives ? Wild stab, but you might need a language pack? Also, I think tesseract only works