On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Kurt Marek <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm new to tesseract, so please excuse my naiveté. I'm trying to scan some > newspaper headlines, but I don't need the text in the body of the articles. > Obviously, the headline is a much larger type and a different font. Running > tesseract in default page segmentation mode usually does a good job of > recognizing the main body text, but a poor job on the headline. I'm > thinking that if I can separate out the blocks for the headline, the body > text, and any nearby images, that I could just perform the recognition on > the headline and it might work better (and faster). I can always position > the headline at the top left of the image, so it will be first in reading > order. I've tried to read through the code and figure out how to only focus > on the headline block, but I'm a little lost. Will GetComponentImages work? > Am I barking up the wrong tree? > You did not provide any example, but I guess GetComponentImages[1] should work for you. [1] https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/APIExample#example Zdenko -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
