Alright , this does give me a starting point . I am on my R&D way :) Thank you once again
On Thursday, 16 June 2016 12:49:43 UTC+5:30, Allistair C wrote: > > Apologies, missed that! :) > > Can't see why you couldn't start with tesseract as-is for movie poster OCR > and focus instead then on image preprocessing, I.e how you send tesseract > the image to interpret. > > I would actually first have a go at trying Google Cloud Vision API as that > seems very good at picking out text from more complex scenes. Else you > should read previous posts here on detection of text areas in natural world > scenes so you can first extract text rectangles cleanly to send to > tesseract rather than one big image. I guess it depends which part of the > poster is most important (title of movie or everything like actors etc) as > titles often use very specialised fonts (not always but often) and I think > those you will find very challenging without perhaps additional training > too (see tesseract training resources) > > Good luck > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 16 Jun 2016, at 06:18, ravi katiyar <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Hi > > Really appreciate your prompt response , thank you for showing me some > direction. > I understand that modifying tesseract will be an uphill task , and now > specially given that the source code is been completely developed in c and > C++ it seems even more tougher. > > I did mention my use case is to be able to identify text out of movie > posters printed in newspaper. > Is someone aware of something similar to tesseract which can do this job ? > > Thanks > Ravi Katiyar > > On Thursday, 16 June 2016 03:41:36 UTC+5:30, Allistair C wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Your question is a little difficult to understand - it sounds like you >> are saying on the one hand you have no OCR or image processing background, >> know Java, and want to modify Tesseract toward some aim that you do not >> specify? >> >> Tesseract as far as I understand is developed using C/C++ and not Java. >> Only the Android JNI bindings would be Java. >> >> You can find the Tesseract source code at: >> >> https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract >> >> In terms of concepts you should read "An Overview of the Tesseract OCR >> Engine" written by Tesseract's lead Ray Smith as it will give you insight >> into the algorithms that are employed for its OCR. >> >> >> http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/33418.pdf >> >> Further concepts for algorithms can be found in the "Techniques" section >> at: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition >> >> Sounds like an uphill struggle to me but I wish you luck! >> >> Cheers >> >> >> On 15 June 2016 at 07:28, ravi katiyar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello All, >>> >>> I am new to the world of OCR and image processing as well. 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