Thanks for the advice, Sven! I'll see what I can do. Kind regards,
Terrence On Jan 10, 9:45 am, Sven Pedersen <[email protected]> wrote: > You should try cube (multiple language) "-l eng+deu" with the European > scripts to see if a combination works well, but honestly unless this list > is very long it would be easier to OCR it and correct it by hand for > scannos (OCR equiv. of typos). Otherwise, you'll need to train starting > with English -- not from scratch. Follow the FAQ and let us know if you > have problems. > -_Sven > > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:57 PM, TerrenceW <[email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > I have an image containing English words with their phonetic > > equivalents printed alongside (a pronunciation guide.) It's actually > > for a spelling bee. The organizers of the bee would very much like to > > get this image as a textual list (so they can manipulate it, pull > > words from it randomly, and so on) and they came to me for help. I've > > used Tesseract before, but only to recognize English and French text. > > > The pronunciation guide contains text with lots of umlauts, upside > > down letter e's, etc. More specialized characters than are contained > > in French (which is one thing I tried, in an effort to improve the > > recognition.) Does anyone have any advice for recognizing characters > > like this? Should I start training Tesseract to recognize them? I've > > never done any training before, which is why I'm a bit reluctant. > > > Thanks in advance! > > > Terrence > > > -- > > 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 > > -- > ``All that is gold does not glitter, > not all those who wander are lost; > the old that is strong does not wither, > deep roots are not reached by the frost. > From the ashes a fire shall be woken, > a light from the shadows shall spring; > renewed shall be blade that was broken, > the crownless again shall be king.” -- 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
