Thanks David, Unfortunately I will be processing these from a video feed and the car number could be anywhere in the image. I kind of need to test about 10 images as a car goes past to see if I can recognise a number. No human interaction possible. This may not be the right tool for my job.
Regards, Rod On Wednesday, November 1, 2017 at 11:16:09 PM UTC+8, David Sixela wrote: > 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/05cde99d-b573-4e8c-b9c1-1741c4947ba5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
