Hmm I know what caused the bad quality, the picture wasn't in grayscale yet... It works fine now!
Because there isn't much information available on Tesseract, I created a little tutorial, http://redpanda.nl/Tesseract/ (in fact it's about the preparation of your image before you use Tesseract). Please let me know if you find it useful :) On Dec 24, 2:30 pm, Pieter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just downloaded Tesseract (including the Dutch language files) to my > Ubuntu 9.10 installation from the repository. I use the terminal to > execute Tesseract. > > The reason I downloaded Tesseract is that I would like to have digital > versions of a few books I own. I tested the program with a random text- > image (English) from internet, it worked like a charm. However, my > picture of a page of the book (edited with GIMP) results in > rubbish:http://www.redpanda.nl/img.tif(about 14MB). > > Could somebody explain why it doesn't work in this case? > 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.
