Hi all,
I am evaluating tesseract for my project and I found that its very good
compared to other free OCRs. However I have some
doubts regarding Training Tesseract 3.0 for new font types.I did two things
while training tesseract..
1) I made a text document containing all the Alphabets, numbers and ASCII
charactres for different fonts like Times New Roman,
Arial, Verdana, Comic Sans etc. I got Printout of all and then scanned
them to make TIF images. And i followed the steps mentioned
for training tesserct 3.0 on
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/TrainingTesseract3
But, the result I got from my trained data was not comparable to
'eng.traineddata' provided by default, it was very poor.
2) Then I decided to make a traineddata from the TIF & BOX files for
tesseract 2.04 provided by Tesseract from
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/downloads/detail?name=boxtiff-2.01.eng.tar.gz&can=2&q=
I successfully created the my 'eng.traineddata' from this and I got
improved result compared to my first approach. But, the output of
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