It seems to work here. I get the following result: This is a test message. I WO11Cl€1' if the OCR software will be able to oohvert this properly. Jim
I called "tesseract.exe output.tif result -l eng" Regards Lothar www.dornieden.org On 20 Feb., 02:46, "Bryan D. Payne" <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm a newbie to tesseract and hoping that someone can help. I'd like > to convert a screen capture image to text. Here's the steps that I'm > taking: > > * create screen capture > * crop the image so that only the text is visible, with a white > background > * upscale the image to 300dpi > * convert to 8-bit tiff > * process using "tesseract output.tif text-output -l eng" > > After getting poor results, I started bumping up the font size before > taking the screen capture. However, this hasn't helped. Currently, > I'm working from a 300dpi, high resolution image where the lower case > characters are about 95 pixels high. You can see the image at the > following link (http://www.bryanpayne.org/tmp/output.tif), note that > it is 9.5 MB. > > The results that I'm getting for this image look like this: > > 'I`11is is El, te > vv<>11ciI @r if 1 > vvill I;>€ 2LI;‘>14 > ];)I°()];)€I`1}7- > —]irr1 > > Clearly not very good. So my question is, what am I doing wrong? It > seems that the source image is about as ideal as it gets. Yet, > tesseract is having a lot of trouble with it. I'm suspecting user > error, so I'm hoping that someone can point me in the right > direction. Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
