On 30 July 2010 20:45, Andres <[email protected]> wrote: > By the way, the fonts used in the licence plates in Argentina are not > commercial. So I had to build my training image with pictures that I took > with my own camera on the street. If that's your case, prepare yourself for > a lot of photoshop work, to make the size of the characters uniform (tips: > (paste) -> Ctrl+T (transform) -> drag the edges holding shift to keep > proportions ---->when you finish with all fonts, merge visible layers > (Shift+Ctrl+E) to avoid having a multilayer TIFF file------use the rulers to > guide you vertically-----finally you might dicide if you want to threshold) > > Question to the list: > The images that I use have black background and the letters are white. I > trained Tesseract for that. Does that make any difference, should I get > better results by inverting the image (in the training image and captured > image) ?
Tesseract is supposed to handle that gracefully, though for training it would be better to use black on white. -- <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.
