version 2.04 fixed the problem saving the snapshot as nocompress, noalpha j.tiff convert j.tiff -colorspace gray j.tif tesseract j.tif outj -l eng
sealed the deal with beautiful OCR thanks Salahuddin and Ray On Jun 16, 3:02 pm, timmckenna <[email protected]> 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 filehttp://sitebuilt.net/files/sna.tifI > gethttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
