Make sure your images are of at least 300 DPI. https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/ImproveQuality
On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 1:23:20 PM UTC-5, Joel Wheeler wrote: > > Hello- I've downloaded and compiled the source for Tesseract 3.02.02 and > installed the English learning files. To test the installation I am using > what I believe to be a pristine input image which was just a screenshot of > some tesseract home page text- so there is no markings or anything like > that which may occur from a scanned text image. I fed this image into > tesseract but the output is mostly garbled and the conversion very poor. A > couple of words were correctly translated but the rest is not close. I have > a feeling that something may be off in my environment or something and > someone might see the output and know immediately what my issue is. > > I'm running on a 64 bit Linux RedHat 6 install. > > Initially I built and installed tesseract 3.03 but had the same result. So > I ran 'sudo make uninstall' and then compiled and installed 3.02 instead > but there was very little difference in the output. > > I confirmed that english language was installed with: > > > tesseract --list-langs > List of available languages (1): > eng > > I've attached the input image as well as the file containing the output > text. > > Is this output what I should expect, or is something definitely off here? > Any assistance that folks could give would be greatly appreciated! > > Thank you. > -- -- 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/d/optout.
