Well, I tried eng_problem.tif from the google files. Tesseract got very doable output.
Maybe the tif isn't a real tif; I'll look more into it. Thanks for all your help. I'll check back here later tonight and provide results of a new scan with considerable attention to the file formatting. Thanks Tesseract seems really cool. On Nov 3, 10:16 am, "Peter Davoust" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used a similar size imaged image that was 600dpi, and I got similar > output. Then I selected one line of text and tried that and it didn't > work. I tried to train tesseract but it didn't pick the right number > of boxes. That's when I stopped playing with it because it was 1 in > the morning. I'd upload the image, but considering it was my private > key that I was trying to recover, I'd rather not post it ;) > > > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:13 AM, charlesrkiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I uploaded the test file as crop9.tif; since I scanned at 1200dpi, the > > image was huge. I had to scale the image down to upload it to Google, > > I used gimp. > > > I tried various file sizes to input tesseract, scaling the image using > > gimp. Maybe it's the tiff filter on gimp. Anyway, once I scaled the > > image to less than 10MB, I managed to get this for output: Sample: > > > II ___, . ,r.. I ..,r I ............. I ...- - ------------- . ----r · > > I ---------- . ···· - ············· :·-· ''''' ' '''`'''' IIIII-- .- > > ··"'III > > I.III ·- '''''''''' 5 ''```'''' " ''''' Z]; ..... j..ZZ ' V'"------ > > I......I" -|||I' 'IIIII ·········· """ ``'''``'''' 'I__I..-I > > IIIIII§f§jf""·----I. ......r,_,... Inf} ``'''``''' ""!II-- ·... > > I.II:! ..... !!IIIIIII = . .I III ......_,....... III- '- - > > ·----- . ...---- --·-' ----· · ----- - --·· V ··········· > > _,__ III5I_I ,,,. II ...,. . .... - rrr- - --rrr - rrr- I -r·rr V r'·· > > ' ··**' V '*'' VV ____ I. > > I I If;. ''''' I ..... . .... .........r = ---- > > ..»......... __ ___, .I:;;· 2 ..,..... = ----r III;;:::;;I I. -;; > > ···'··· --- ====¤¢¢¢¤==----- '''' ' ````' - -IIl' 'IIII IIII 'III > > ,........ I rrr. . r,r., I ----- . r... - ---. I;:::::..:III.. I- > > · ---. ....- -I|| ".. ." ··---- -III. IIIII .............- ..... > > I .... ...., II ........... .... . > > IIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIII...II . -III IIIII > > __________ .I|II .......... .___ IIII. .--.... ...... > > II ........... .I .......... > > VV IIII IIII- IIII IIII ______ -IIII ............ IIII- --III:;;; .... > > III; .... II ......_ ::III- -lI|I ........... IIII ____ I IIII I > > I ,,,.. ....I ..... I > > ··rr '·** ___, I ........,,_ I ____ _ ____ ;;g·I ..... > > I ,........., I .... rr-- ------· I ----- V -··- III VV"- > > > I use Debian AMD64. > > > On Nov 3, 2:26 am, "bharath bhooshan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> me toooooooooo...can u upload that image file > > >> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:29 PM, 74yrs old <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > i never faced like that so far. > > >> > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Peter Davoust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > >> >> The issue is not that test.txt isn't being created, the issue is that > >> >> test.txt is empty when it is created. > > >> >> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:31 AM, 74yrs old <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> >> wrote: > >> >> > have you run commandline as follow: > >> >> > "tesseract.exe phototest.tif test " The output will be > >> >> > "test.txt". > > >> >> > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:17 AM, charlesrkiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> >> wrote: > > >> >> >> I got tesseract-ocr.tar.gz to unpack, configure, make, sudo make > >> >> >> install and... print out the phototest.tif to a text file... > > >> >> >> but my scanned image.tif/tiff creates an empty text file! BUMMER!! > >> >> >> Almost thought I had it working. Does it now need some training??? > > >> >> >> I tried to get ocropus to install, but I don't need the html output. > > >> >> >> Any ideas?? > > >> >> >> Thanks!! > > >> >> -- > >> >> Peter Davoust ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >> >> worldgnat.blogspot.com > > >> >> "Don't mistake your watermelon for the universe" > >> >> -Kenn Amdahl > > >> >> "Nature is designed to work - let it." > > -- > Peter Davoust ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > worldgnat.blogspot.com > > "Don't mistake your watermelon for the universe" > -Kenn Amdahl > > "Nature is designed to work - let it." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
