My bad i didn't know you we're working with videos, i thought you had images like the one you shared.
Le mercredi 8 novembre 2017 02:54:14 UTC+2, Rod Lisson a écrit : > > 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/e7184362-af28-4e54-93cb-a54f63e24425%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

