2010/7/30 Jimmy O'Regan <[email protected]> > 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. > > You mean that I can train on black on white and then read white on black with no difference ?
> -- > <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]<tesseract-ocr%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en. > > -- 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.
