Hi Rod, I think you should do some image processing (by using OpenCv for example) to segment the text area from the rest of the image and then pass the output image result in tesseract.
Hope this helps you. Le mercredi 1 novembre 2017 10:06:25 UTC+2, Rod Lisson a écrit : > > HI All, > Just found tesseract, installed and performed OCR on the demo files. Works > well. > Now before I invest too much time, am I asking too much of this software > to recognize numbers on the side of race cars as per the attached image? > Out of the box it doesn't get any text from the image, but not sure if > training will help or if I just need some parameters. > > Basically I'm trying to get race numbers from hundreds of car images. The > fonts should all be close to this example due to regulations. > > Thanks in advance for any advice. > > -- 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/49a2fa13-07fb-4cc4-9d94-f28fd86708ab%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

