I am using Tesseract 4.0 to extract text from scanned PDF documents. I first use pdftoppm to split the document into pages represented as png files, and then use the following command to perform OCR
tesseract page.pdf stdout -l eng --psm 4 The pages generally have section numbers down the left hand side of the page. Sometimes, these are extracted as a column of text, and the actual text is extracted as a second column. Since I have set --psm 4, I am expecting to get the entire page returned as a single column - and indeed, for some pages I do get what I want. Why is tesseract sometimes extracting the text in columns even when I tell it not to, and what can I do about it? -- 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 tesseract-ocr+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tesseract-ocr@googlegroups.com. 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/0781d032-73b7-415d-97a0-485a1c3210a6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
