Hey everyone, I've got this pdf document which is a schedule. I'm trying to extract the text from it via tesseract but I'm not having that good results.
I've tried a lot of different things, in my inexperienced opinion the image seems very high quality as I can zoom in a lot without seeing pixels. I've also tried to convert the pdf->tiff and add grayscale filter (all via java). I've attached both the end result and the original pdf here along with a sample of the output, any help making the output better would be appreciated. The tiff file is too big for the attachement; see this link: http://wltd.org/Daily%20schedule-14.tiff ---Begin text--- 008 KIERA MCG 3:00 PM 11:00 PM TRWN 8.00 — 718 KYLE s 11:00 PM 7:00 AM MT 8.00 < — 686 JOSEPH e 11:00 PM 5:00 AM MT 6.00 — > 718 KYLE s 11:00 PM 7:00 AM MT 8.00 — > 656 CHANDLER A 1:00 PM 4:00 PM MB 3.00 — 720 TYLER D 11:00 PM 7:00 AM T|_ F 8.00 < — 720 TYLER D 11:00 PM 7:00 AM T|_ F 8.00 — > 052 SH ELLY L 5:30 AM 2:00 PM FLRIFFIMGR F 8.50 _:I Riley M 372 8:00 AM 4:00 PM FLR F 8.00 — ‘ Raphael B602 4:00 PM 12:00 AM FLRIMGR F 8.00 ‘ —:| I ‘ Kevin G 652 11:00 AM 7:00 PM g$Y$IWNIMNY$I F 8.00 ‘ I:-:| I Joseph C 191 8:00 AM 4:00 PM ADMIBKIMB F 8.00 -:— 2014 ROXANA T 11:00 AM 7:00 PM ADM F 8.00 _ --END TEXT--- As you can see tesseract becomes quite creative with its attempt at parsing this, earlier in the document it even parsed the letter "N" as "|\|", creative but useless for parsing! -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/f77f8dd8-f6d2-4f6b-b5fe-5510fac4f878%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
daily schedule-14.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
