Thanks, ShreeDevi I opened the jpg in Gimp, and you can see that it is about 100 pixels per text line:
<https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-jAAkrAFL_wE/VEE3pA5LMbI/AAAAAAAAADs/1kExQh_pdiA/s1600/gimpOriginal.png> On Friday, October 17, 2014 11:23:37 AM UTC-4, shree wrote: > > https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/ImproveQuality > > try with image at 300dpi or higher. resize 300% > > ShreeDevi > ____________________________________________________________ > भजन - कीर्तन - आरती @ http://bhajans.ramparivar.com > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Rick Leir <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> I have been getting great results from Tesseract when the images are >> clear. However, many of my images are crummy. >> How would you get the best results for this? Maybe improved training, >> maybe image pre-processing? >> >> The original is like this: >> >> >> >> <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Jz-VqLejc-U/VEEau_7k3oI/AAAAAAAAADU/bXOopmkgaSA/s1600/tessOriginal.png> >> I have done some GraphicsMagick work to get this: >> >> >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wAD7kwouFUQ/VEEbBvCH4mI/AAAAAAAAADc/wEQagCMHyxk/s1600/tessAfterIM.png> >> >> >> I am using Ubuntu 14.04, and see this in the terminal: >> Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v3.03 with Leptonica >> >> The Tesseract output text is, as expected, poor: >> >> uh it .0222? 1mm: (lenuimi 7.1: ft. tin“. Six'ori;v;sioxi ".nn’ >> >> ;(rt. n of an; 103 an Lam tmtns;hn >> >> RG 84; >> >> 37.14121 :13}: oven 1w ,4? 1 {2.2" “"D'ud<~‘1ii,xl,;l w ‘;’ tires LU. >> >> not, I,» ana'asienbnd in 1.3 arm apartment. .. em; mummy no film >> rzltnow‘n tau” 1m. and. ruijoiv‘zim: (mean in thin bleak. :an {"311 .25 >> 33:03:) in Line :‘djomum Monks 1m :1: r a; w 231:9C101l3nt13‘ 1 are u.» >> rerun «S :2, vngfiunxulw CHUHLVlfiafln. ~.1. was tun iHEHHELgN MC >> >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> 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/8cf6020e-1dc3-499f-8de9-a09c8865939a%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/8cf6020e-1dc3-499f-8de9-a09c8865939a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- 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/7b1d6b68-44ff-4bd1-b527-9ad3a12149f4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

