Green? Why? I dont know if this might resolve the issue. Lmk the behavior I’m curious. But you need an image that has white background and black text. You can achieve this easily using cv2 functions.
On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM Michael Schuh <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to extract the date and time from > > [image: time.png] > > I have successfully use tesseract to extract text from other images. > tesseract does not find any text in the above image, > > michael@argon:~/michael/trunk/src/tides$ tesseract time.png out > Estimating resolution as 142 > > michael@argon:~/michael/trunk/src/tides$ cat out.txt > > michael@argon:~/michael/trunk/src/tides$ ls -l out.txt > -rw-r----- 1 michael michael 0 Oct 30 08:58 out.txt > > Any help you can give me would be appreciated. I attached the time.png > file I used above. > > Thanks, > Michael > > -- > 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 visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/77ac0d2b-7796-4f17-8bc6-0e70a9653adan%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/77ac0d2b-7796-4f17-8bc6-0e70a9653adan%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/CADEFw17btz6nKqyhFKd-GXVCu7qtBQQ6gY5AV0pZJusXa4CpXg%40mail.gmail.com.
