On 5 July 2010 07:23, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/04/2010 11:47 PM, fontenot.1031 wrote: >>> >>> You'll need to upscale the image. Before reducing it to >> >> Thanks for responding. I really appreciate it. Can you tell me what >> upscaling is or how to do it with ImageMagick? I don't know that much >> about images, jpeg or tiff. Thanks a lot. (also I think the imgur link >> is messed up because the version on my computer is a lot bigger / >> clearer). > > I think that Tesseract, in order to be a successful project, must > be much more clear about what it is offering. >
>From the README: "About the Engine This code is a raw OCR engine. It has NO PAGE LAYOUT ANALYSIS, NO OUTPUT FORMATTING, and NO UI." What's unclear about that? > Now many people believe it is "an OCR program" that can function as > an alternative to commercial end user products. Those people clearly haven't bothered to read the README. > Some open source > software in other fields (especially OpenOffice and Firefox) can > meet such expectations. So it's natural that complete beginners > come to this list with basic questions about what a bitmap image No, it's not, really. Nobody comes to the Firefox mailing list asking what a webpage is. > is. The commercial end user products would not bother their > customers with such details. > > But today's Tesseract is much more like a subroutine library > that requires or at least assumes that its users are programmers. There are a number of GUIs out there for Tesseract, both open source and commercial. OCRFeeder is the last one I saw a demo of; it's quite nice. If you want to point and click at things and no think about what you're doing, maybe you should use that. > The experts on this list are not really interested in explaining > what a bitmap image is. This mismatch comes from the failure to > explain what Tesseract is. It comes from the failure to read the explanation of what it is. People are lazy, sure, I understand that. But I for one don't intend to spend a whole lot of time accommodating that. In future, please do not hijack threads. Your interjection has nothing to do with the question at hand -- that image would pose a similar problem for commercial OCR systems, too. I'll bet you a beer that FineReader will pick nothing out of that image either, and FineReader does not make any attempt to rescale images. -- <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil. <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you. -- 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.
