Hi Nick,

I am using this technique for binarisation 
http://liris.cnrs.fr/christian.wolf/software/binarize/ . Could you 
recommend anything better than this one.

Thanks.

On Friday, July 4, 2014 7:45:54 PM UTC+5:30, Nick White wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 02:08:46AM -0700, Meenal Goyal wrote: 
> >     If you're sure that all the words you will encounter will be in the 
> >     dictionary this should help somewhat: 
> >     https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/FAQ#How_to_ 
> >     increase_the_trust_in/strength_of_the_dictionary? 
> >   
> > The words won't always be in dictionary so I tried adding them in file 
> > eng.user-words but i m confused about the weightage given to this file 
> against 
> > the already defined dictionaries. 
> > Also, I have read that post earlier about strengthening the dictionary 
> and 
> > tried to modify some variables in the configuration file.  But then it 
> starts 
> > recognizing wrong words, may be its the case of over-correcting. 
>
> Yes, that's the problem with just emphasising the dictionary.   
> Ultimately if you're giving Tesseract a lot of noise, it's going to 
> be very hard to stop it producing garbage output. So I'm afraid 
> better binarisation is all I can recommend. 
>

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