Paul, Thankfully the RGB values of the colors of the pixels I want arent used anywhere else in the area of the image I want scanned. So yeah I simply just turn all other colors white, and turn the colors I want black.
On Sunday, July 13, 2014 10:24:06 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote: > > Do you simply filter out any color other than brown and white or is your > algorithm more sophisticated? If it is, it would be great if you could > share the basic idea. > > Paul > > Am Samstag, 12. Juli 2014 00:06:29 UTC+2 schrieb Alex Ryan: >> >> just wanted to follow up >> >> I wrote some simple code to preprocess the image because I realized I >> will be doing basically the same image every time so its foolish to try and >> use Tesseracts binaziration technique which was designed for a different >> and more general purpose. So basically I just turned every pixel white that >> wasnt a pixel that contained part of a letter, and when I send that to >> tesseract I get flawless output with the language data I trained. Thanks so >> much for the replies Paul and Nick, I learned a lot and it put me in the >> right direction! cheers! >> > -- 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/50e08735-88a2-420e-8f84-1fc77cbd8eaa%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
