try to use page segmentation mode. E.g. "Treat the image as a single word" (or text line or uniform block of text) will produce results. As far as I remember discussion on this forum tesseract is not suitable for handwritten text...
Zdenko On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Nick Jalbert <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm trying to use Tesseract to detect the presence of text in images. I'm > not concerned about the accuracy of the OCR, but would like Tesseract to > return a non-empty answer if there is something in the picture. I have a > few questions: > > 1. Are there any other image processing algorithms/tools I should look > into besides Tesseract for this task? > > 2. Are there any config settings I might want to tweak to make Tesseract > behave better as a binary classifier? I tried tweaking the "dictionary > trust" settings as described in the FAQ, but didn't see much difference. > > 3. Attached are a few images that Tesseract 3.02.02 tells me are blank. > Are these just pathological cases, or am I doing something wrong? > > Thanks for any help! > Nick > > -- > 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
