Thanks very much for the feedback! On Thursday, July 16, 2015 at 9:31:37 AM UTC-7, Tom Morris wrote: > > Your goals don't sound unreasonable, but I'd suggest using an approach > that focuses on pre and post processing before diving in and hacking on > tesseract itself. That will allow you to easily continue to track > improvements in base tesseract without having to worry about re-integrating > your changes. > > Tom > > On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 4:43:23 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: >> >> I would like to use knowledge of the page layout and to greatly improve >> OCR accuracy. I am working with a large number of forms that are extremely >> repetitive in structure. Say I know that a particular field in the form >> holds the value for state/province, and another for city/town. >> >> Is it too ambitious to attempt to improve the accuracy of tesseract by >> using this knowledge? For example, I could hypothetically identify the >> field that holds the state/province, classify this as one of 50 possible >> states. Then I can have a list of cities in every state, and classify the >> contents of the city field by choosing the most likely city that is in that >> state? >> >> This type of approach could hypothetically be generalized to many other >> types of very structured information, for example, letting tesseract know >> that a particular field is likely to contain a year or a phone number, or >> even potentially a name and choosing from a long list of names. >> >> Are these types of goals realistic? And if so, is the best way to get >> started to spend a long time with the source code, make modifications, and >> compile it myself? Thanks very much! >> >
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