Here are 2 sample images: http://imgur.com/UxNjf
(i just pasted 2 sample images into a white canvas, the 2 images will be OCRed separately) On Aug 5, 8:17 am, zdenko podobny <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > first of all - please provide example image. Than people can make you > suggest you some improvement. > > Zdenko > > > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:44 PM, sydd <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello > > > I need to make an OCR application, that can recognise birth dates, for > > example: > > "John, Smith" > > "02/01/2011" > > "John, Smith, 34 YO DOB 06Jan1981" > > I have these texts in a clean, cropped image (solid background), and > > on the image is just this text. > > All of the text is written in Arial, either 11px or 20px font size. > > > I have got 2 questions about the OCR: > > 1. I've read that tesseract is bad for recognising small text. What > > can i do to make the recongition better? Enlarge the images? use some > > filters on it? (I've tried enlarging, but the results were not so > > good, like 30% fail rate) > > 2. What would help the recognising process? Should i train tesseract > > for a custom language? (this is the only kind of 'setting' i read in > > the docs) Or is there some kind of supervised learning procedure for > > tesseract? I figured out, that i can whitelist characters with the > > command tessedit_char_whitelist , but i cant find a list of other > > config options or their meanings > > > Thanks for help, i am really clueless how to get started with this > > project because of the lack of documentation. > > > -- > > 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
