Hi Greg
What ligatures do you run into with tesseract that you need to post-ocr?  
Thanks -- Rick

For anyone having trouble with utf-8 in sed, see:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27072558/sed-and-utf-8-encoding

On Monday, June 8, 2015 at 12:30:05 PM UTC-4, gdunkel wrote:
>
> Since 'fi' and other ligatures generally get OCRed to a separate 
> character, I just run a post-ocr sed script to take care of them, in Linux.
>
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Rick Leir <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
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>> This problem with ligatures or digraphs is appearing frequently, how can 
>> I avoid it? I want simple output text, without ligatures. It is possible 
>> that the 'f' and 'i' are touching in the image. Is there a way to pass 
>> hints to Tesseract? Version 3.03 on Linux. TIA
>>
>> image text: fish
>> OCR: "\x{fb01}sh";
>> utf8: fish  
>>
>> image text: flambeau
>> OCR: "\x{fb02}ambeau,";
>> utf8: flambeau, 
>>
>>  "\x{fb01}xed";
>> fixed  
>>
>> "arti\x{fb01}cial";
>> artificial 
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