I'm working on a prototype to be able to OCR Beverage labels and pull the description off them. The problem that I have is that the fonts can be all different and I may or may not know the font. I want to be able to script this as much as possible. Is there a way to train Tesseract in a way that you don't need to know the name of the font? Can I supply an image to train it myself without the font name? I have attached a couple of examples. One Idea that have it to automatically crop out the description text so that the OCR doesn't have to figure out where the text is.
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