Hello Patrick, Could you extend a little about what do you mean with Tesseract heuristics ?
Thanks, Andres 2011/7/3 patrickq <[email protected]> > 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 > -- 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
