Re: tesseract ocr options?

Have you tried using ocrfeeder?  It uses tesseract but has tools to let
you get better out put from it, but manually or automatically defining
areas.

Brian Cluff

On 5/22/19 8:22 PM, Joe Lowder wrote:
> tesseract ocr has worked well for me in many cases,
> but sometimes it separates columns vertically instead
> of keeping columns of data on the same line.
>
> For example a jpg showing a list of names and addresses
> with the names followed by the addresses on the same line,
> but the ocr result has the list of names in a vertical line
> followed by the addresses in a vertical line below the names
> instead of on the same line as the names.
>
> I found a man page that suggested using --psm N
> with 10 different numeric options for N, but got no help.
>
> $: tesseract namesandaddresses.jpg names --psm 4
>
> Resulting error message:
> Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v3.03 with Leptonica
> read_params_file: Can't open 4
>
> Any suggestions how to fix this?
>
>
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