It seems that the command-line now uses TextRenderer API rather than GetUTF8Text method.
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/api/tesseractmain.cpp On Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 4:16:17 PM UTC-6, Reinaldo Crespo wrote: > > Hello everyone; > > Tesseract from command line yields decent results. However, from API, the > results are not as good. > > I've written a few c wrapper functions in order to use Tesseract from > harbour. > > This code works fine but yields different and less accurate text when > compared from command line output: > > handle := TessBaseAPICreate() //Using Tesseract to OCR image > IF TessBaseAPIInit3( handle, NIL, "eng" ) != 0 ; LOOP ; ENDIF > //abort if english traindata file can't be found locally. > > //line below is commented to avoid program from freezing when calling > TessBaseAPIGetUTF8Text() > //TessBaseAPISetPageSegMode( handle, 3 ) //this line causes program > to freeze when calling GetUTF8Text() below > > img := pixRead( ALLTRIM( cPath )+cFile ) > > TessBaseAPISetImage2( handle, img ) > > IF TessBaseAPIRecognize( handle, Nil ) != 0 ; LOOP ;ENDIF > //abort if Recognize fails > > cText := TessBaseAPIGetUTF8Text( handle ) //program will freeze > here unless SetPageSegMode above is commented > > > I'm guessing the reason output is different is do to PSM mode defaults to > different values on command line use versus from API. However, when I > uncomment the line "TessBaseAPISetPageSegMode( handle, 3 )" to make sure > PSM is same as command line default then the program freezes when executing > TessBaseAPIGetUTF8Text( handle). > > Can someone, please, help me understand what I might be doing wrong? > > Thank you, > > > > Reinaldo. > -- 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/4bafef21-0b49-4845-8756-18dd144fcc36%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
