Thank you SO much for the replies guys!! I read up on those binarization links, and that looks like its going to be a bit out of my wheel house to implement, I see that there is a python/openCV implementation of that paper, but im not sure if I could get that going, as im not familiar with either. I looked at the image file its using right before it processes it via the tessedit_write_image config and the quality is good and everything is sharp, so im not sure how much it would help. http://i.imgur.com/ljBtNMQ.jpg (other than removing the gibberish)
I tried going a character at a time, however for some reason I cant seem to get tesseract to work when I give it just one character, it doesnt see anything. If I give it a block of 4 tiles then it works. I tried all the different pageseg_mode options as well. ??? In one of the links tho I saw something about -psm setting. When I run the OCR with -psm 6 all of a sudden it worked perfect!!! Im really not sure what that setting does, ive tried doing some searches, but im still unclear. Can you guys shed some light on that? I made a box file from that setting and put together a new traineddata file with that. Now if I try and run it using that language on anything other than -psm 6 it crashes tesseract. Is this something I need to be concerned about? My plan now is to do another set of better box files to make a new language using the -psm 6 with the current traineddata. I'm hoping that it will be able to distinguish between the normal and wild card tiles this way. *fingers crossed* thank you again for taking the time to reply, it was a very big help cheers, Alex -- 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/844bd7fd-74ee-4d37-b8b7-940e59eb8398%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
