There is no exhaustive user manual for training tesseract. We all start in the darkness; and accumulate bits of information in different places to learn the ins and outs of tesseract.
It would be great if we can collectively write a better manual. Up until then, we can drop /collect our observations, best practices, hacks and lessons we accumulated in our adventure with tesseract. I will start with some of my observations. I collect them by reading in between the lines: from my own failed experiments: 1. Training from scratch is very difficult because tesseract requires extensive data set. It looks like it requires over 300,000 test lines (around 26mb text file). https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/issues/3909 Multiple that with the fonts you want to train, the data grows exponentially. That requires very powerful computers running for weeks and months. So, for the regular users, training from a network layer, or fine tuning are the most plausible options. 2. Best practice: make your text lines not too long. The recommended number of works in a line is 10-12. Again from the above link. ( ...to be continued) -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/bf0cd568-9b5b-4e42-be6e-6225ed6a3892n%40googlegroups.com.
