Hi. You will need some processing with a library like OpenCV, see that great post from PyImageSearch
http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2017/07/24/bank-check-ocr-with-opencv-and-python-part-i/ In my experience, that type of task always needs a good pre processing before tesseract. Best regards On Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 5:36:26 AM UTC-3, Karthick S wrote: > > Hi, I am looking at building an app on Android which can take a picture of > a bank check and then pull out account number as well as the check number > from it. I do not want all text in the scanned image to be OCRed (which > seems to be happening with many apps doing this). The same goes with a > Driving License - I would like to pull the DL Number and the name of the > person holding the license from the scanned image of a DL. Can anyone help > on this? > -- 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/483bc410-f711-4f95-9673-3a63ac0210cc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

