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by sayshot
2016-10-31T21:05:35-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: Image pre-processing for Tesseract
Replies: 4
Views: 5979

Re: Image pre-processing for Tesseract

Please, always provide your IM version and platform when asking questions, since syntax may differ. Also provide your exact command line and if possible your images. See the top-most post in this forum "IMPORTANT: Please Read This FIRST Before Posting" at http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server ...
by sayshot
2016-10-31T21:02:36-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: Image pre-processing for Tesseract
Replies: 4
Views: 5979

Re: Image pre-processing for Tesseract

There are many threads that address this problem. I would start by making an image of just the background paper, made by a bilinear gradient from the four corners of the input. By subtraction (or division), we get a good image of dark text on a light background. This will certainly need ...
by sayshot
2016-10-28T11:02:46-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: Image pre-processing for Tesseract
Replies: 4
Views: 5979

Image pre-processing for Tesseract

Hello Everybody! I'm new in the forum, I mean, I have been using it but never posted before. I'm trying to find the best way of pre-processing an image/photo of handwritting text to then give it to tesseract. My objective is the background to be white and the characters to be black, but with a nice ...