try by setting to 300 dpi resolution and not 93dpi. it should work.

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Denis E. <[email protected]> wrote:

> His,
>
> thanks for your message, I really should have scrutinized the documentation
> first.
> I tried scaling the image to 1779x100px and set resolution to 92dpi (all in
> gimp)
>
> Tesseract produces then:
> HHhhhhhhhhhhhhVhVhVhVhVhVHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhVhVhVhVhVhVHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhVhVhVhVhVhVHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhVhVhVhVhVhVHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhVhVhVhVhVhVHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhVhVhVhVhVhVHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhVhVhVhVhVhVHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhVhVhVhVhVhVHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhVhVhVhVhVhVhVHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhVhVhVhVhVhVHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhVhVhVhVhVhVHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhVhVhVhVhVhVHHHHHH$lll
> 444l<W<<il4 IUJWWIIIIIIIIWNUWWWlUJ <|1U
>
> Could you please advise if I am heading in the right direction by trying to
> scale image to get a meaningful text out even though the original is ocr
> averse?
>
> thanks
>
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Ray Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> RTFM. See the FAQ on small text.Ray.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:33 PM, denis56 <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Here is the link to three files that I mentioned (original, converted
>>> with java imageio package, and with Image Converted utility)
>>> http://www.speedyshare.com/732780799.html
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> On 19 Mai, 16:27, denis56 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > His again,
>>> >
>>> > after having installed tesseract, I ran it against tif files.
>>> > Unfortunately text is not being recognized.
>>> >
>>> > The tiff files were produced by converting a png images (yellow
>>> > background, red font)
>>> > 1) with java ImageIO
>>> > boolean b = ImageIO.write(image, "tiff", fileName);
>>> >
>>> > - when running tesseract against this type an empty file will be
>>> > outputted
>>> >
>>> > 2) with Image Converter .EXE utility on Windows
>>> >
>>> > - tesseract churns out following text
>>> > \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\HHHHHHHHHHHH\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\UU\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\H\W
>>> >
>>> > While feeding tesseract with eurotext.tif sample file produces perfect
>>> > output.
>>> >
>>> > Could anyone suggest possible reasons for failure. Maybe background
>>> > and text flow together, special care should be taken by converting png
>>> > into tiffs?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>

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