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Improve image for Tesseract OCR

Posted: 2015-04-14T19:34:12-07:00
by nicholas9950
Hi
I am trying to use ImageMagick to improve the quality of image to be read by Tesseract OCR.
I am trying to blur the image background but improve the text so that the OCR can read the text easily.
Do you guys have any idea how to do it?

The image is as below:
Image

Re: Improve image for Tesseract OCR

Posted: 2015-04-14T20:31:34-07:00
by fmw42
What version of IM and what platform? You should always provide that information!

If you are on Linux/Mac OSX or Windows with Cygwin, see my unix shell script, textcleaner, at the link below

Re: Improve image for Tesseract OCR

Posted: 2015-05-10T23:25:06-07:00
by nicholas9950
fmw42 wrote:What version of IM and what platform? You should always provide that information!

If you are on Linux/Mac OSX or Windows with Cygwin, see my unix shell script, textcleaner, at the link below

sorry sir. the OS is windows
Version: ImageMagick 6.9.0-0 Q16 x86_64 2015-02-11

I need the raw convert command as i need to process it in my code.
Again i apologize for the double posting here. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=27610
I had forgotten that i had asked this before.