The answer is (of course) "it depends": 1. If you compare Tesseract and ABBY on a same image, without applying preprocessing to it, ABBY wins (because Tesseract's image processing is very rudimentary - at best). Of course if your test images are produced (for example) by a flatbed scanner, the lack of image processing is not an issue and refer to case 2 below. 2. If you compare Tesseract and ABBY on a clean (processed) image, without applying any post-Tesseract heuristic, ABBY may have an advantage 3. However, if you compare Tesseract + image processing + heuristics & corrections, Tesseract actually beats ABBY hands down.
ScanBizCards is case #3 around Tesseract 3.01. If you want to test this combo please do this: - go to http://www.scanbizcards.com/webdemo - upload an image (under Batch Actions). Warning: ScanBizCards is geared towards recognizing text on business cards so it would be best if you tested on something *like* a business card (sparse text), not a full page with lots of text - click that image then "Image Editor" on top and OCR it - when done testing please delete the test images from this demo account (or get your own online account) ... You can also test instead on your Android or iPhone mobile device by installing the free version of ScanBizCards. ABBY powers two iPhone apps made by German company - Business Card Reader (by Shape Services) and Card Reader (by xRoot Software) - and of course ABBY's own iPhone / Android business card reader app. Patrick On Jul 3, 10:10 am, mw18888 <[email protected]> wrote: > Can anyone comment on the accuracy of Tesseract vs Abbyy? > > Regards, > > mw18888 -- 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
