Issues with tiff file reading were fixed for 2.04, now in svn for early testers.With screenshots read the wiki FAQ. Ray.
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Salahuddin Pasha <[email protected]>wrote: > > I had same problem in MacOS 10.5.x > > First, install the libtiff from http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/ > > > 1. Save the tiff image as BMP using "Preview" > 2. Open with gimp menu Image->Mode->Indexed-> (make 2 bit). > 3. $bmp2tiff -c none alphabet.bmp alphabet.tif > 4. Use file extension tif > > Another way > 1. Install Graphics Magic > 2. Save image as PNG without alpha channel using "Preview" > 3. $gm convert alphabet.png -colors 2 alphabet.bmp > 4. $bmp2tiff -c none alphabet.bmp alphabet.tif > > done > > regards > salahuddin66 > > > On Jun 17, 2009, at 1:02 AM, timmckenna wrote: > > > > > on my macbook leopard with tesseract-1.0.3 and the english v.2.0 > > language pack and using the command > > > > L-605683-098391:Desktop teacher$ tesseract sna.tif outa -l eng > > Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine > > > > on the file http://sitebuilt.net/files/sna.tif I get > http://sitebuilt.net/files/outa.txt > > that looks like this: > > > > .**;.5 4 r»¢~:—;L¤1L, 11;·;;»L;y_;I1 LJ > > .><>rL¢~r1Liz;1 11; rr-—·r<>g_:1iz > > 1:-—;l.r1;·¢~r:—; ¤.¤.·I1.r> ;;r»¢~ rL;11. > > :—;rL¤l11·:I;;r·:I_ 311 I>rzuvrLi·;r<· > > 1:-—r1L¤r<» .:l<».rrisi·;;11, [1 is > > {4 I I>¢~r.rr<·11L‘| r<~.><>rL 11 > > 1:-—;l.rr1;¢~r in; 1;i:—; (m-r 11:-—r > > > > The original file was a 'grab' from preview of a pdf that is > > protected. It creates a tiff image that I then convert to uncompressed > > and get rid of the alpha channel by running imageMagick like so: > > > > convert sn3.tif -background white -flatten +matte +compress sna.tif > > > > Any ideas? Could somebody try that tif file and see if it works on > > yours or give me one that you know works so I can try it here? > > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
