Dan created issue -
https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/issues/412

Please respond there to help to solve issue.

Zdenko


pi 29. 3. 2019 o 16:39 Lucas L. <[email protected]> napĂ­sal(a):

> Thanks for replying. I will post an issue on Leptonica's board as well. I
> was not sure if it was an issue with Leptonica itself or merely a
> configuration/parameter issue in the way that Tesseract calls it.
>
> @zdenop, thanks so much for letting me know that the .TIF format works on
> your end. The service I am working on is supposed to make a first pass
> using a compressed image format, then try again with PPM only if it fails.
> It would appear that there is a code issue with my service and the first
> pass is failing when it shouldn't. I was also able to get the image to
> process correctly (with a nicely-read OCR layer, no less) by calling
> ImageMagick and then Tesseract from the command line. I just took ownership
> of this service so I do not know it by heart. Regardless, it is good that I
> was able to discover a possible issue related to PPM processing with
> Leptonica.
>
> On Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 1:31:36 PM UTC-5, Lucas L. wrote:
>>
>> Environment
>>
>>    - Tesseract 4.0.0-beta.3-249-g607e
>>    - leptonica-1.76.0
>>    - Linux (hostname removed) 4.18.0-16-generic #17
>>    <https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/pull/17>-Ubuntu SMP Fri
>>    Feb 8 00:06:57 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> Current Behavior:
>>
>> I work at a SaaS firm which provides cloud storage services specializing
>> in documents. As a part of our service, we try to create PDFs with
>> searchable text layers from scanned documents. When processing PPMs which
>> are created by ImageMagick from the original document, Leptonica mangles
>> the image before it can be OCR'd properly by Tesseract. This results in a
>> PDF unreadable by both human eyes and Tesseract. This only seems to happen
>> for some specific documents.
>> How do I know it's Leptonica, specifically?
>>
>> I have executed Tesseract with the config values tessedit_write_images 1
>>  and tessedit_pageseg_mode 0. From my understanding, the second option
>> does not enable OCR at all while processing with Tesseract (which speeds up
>> my test cases) and the first option outputs a .tif debug image which is
>> apparently what Leptonica feeds to Tesseract after processing. That image
>> is also mangled.
>> Sample data
>>
>> I have extracted a single page from a PDF -- the process works on a
>> page-by-page basis and most of the documents we work with contain highly
>> sensitive information, so I had no other option but to do this. Regardless,
>> it is good sample data. The "pg_0009.ppm" file is the original input fed
>> into Tesseract on the command line which was converted from the original
>> scanned document by ImageMagick. The "tessinput.tif" file is the image
>> produced by the tessedit_write_images 1 option which is supposed to be
>> OCR'd by Tesseract. This particular page caused a seg fault in Tesseract,
>> something that doesn't usually happen, and I suspect it is because the text
>> is overlapped so many times that the OCR engine has too much to handle.
>>
>> Google Drive since it's too large for an attachment:
>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UCzXYu7iusep-bOD6EcKyBs2qXCqVdu5/view?usp=sharing
>> Expected Behavior:
>>
>> Leptonica leaves the image mostly intact so that Tesseract can provide a
>> proper text layer for the output PDF. Alternatively, a configuration option
>> is available to bypass Leptonica.
>>
>> Any and all help is appreciated with this issue. Thanks for reading.
>>
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