Trying to get the best result with imagemagic and tesseract OCR, image recognition

[metal0077]

Hello I'm trying to use OCR tesseract to recognize some letters in a image.

I did a convert using imagemagick and image seems to be good but its not enough to recognize

The original images:






The command used with imagemagick to convert(with a lot of thanks to @fmw42)

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convert input.jpg -fuzz 50% -fill black -opaque black -bordercolor white -border 2 -fill black -draw "color 0,0 floodfill" -alpha off -negate -units pixelsperinch -density 72 output.jpg

The result images:






The OCR tesseract command:

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$ tesseract output.jpg out -psm 7

Output/result:

Text: AUGU -> AUOU

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Text: VEGU -> VOR-OU

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Text: EGUV -> E6UV

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Text: USEA -> USSOEA


May I can use some filter to get better results? what do you think?

[fmw42]

Your problem is really with your input quality. You should never use JPG since it is a lossy compression. You need to have scans at higher resolutions/density to get better quality results. Also I suspect the main issue is that your characters are rotated and I think OCR does not like rotated letters or numbers. The quality should have been adequate.

[metal0077]

Your problem is really with your input quality. You should never use JPG since it is a lossy compression. You need to have scans at higher resolutions/density to get better quality results. Also I suspect the main issue is that your characters are rotated and I think OCR does not like rotated letters or numbers. The quality should have been adequate.

I converted jpg to tiff before processing...

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convert input.jpg -units pixelsperinch -density 300 -depth 8 output.tiff

The result's change a little be but without correct..

Text: AUGU -> AUOU

Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v4.00.00alpha with Leptonica
Page 1

Text: VEGU -> VOR°OU

Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v4.00.00alpha with Leptonica
Page 1

Text: EGUV -> E6UV

Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v4.00.00alpha with Leptonica
Page 1

Text: USEA -> USSOEA

[fmw42]

Once you have compressed the image using JPG going to tif will not help. You have already lost information. If you scanned these image, you would have been better of saving as tif or pdf.

But the real issue I believe is that the characters are rotated.

[mathieularose]

I tried with your images and it looks good:

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$ tesseract -psm 8 augu.jpg -
Ausu

With whitelisting:

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$ tesseract -psm 8 -c tessedit_char_whitelist=ABCDEFGHIJKLMOPQRSTUVWXYZ augu.jpg -
AUGU

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$ tesseract -psm 8 vegu.jpg -
VEGU

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$ tesseract -psm 8 eguv.jpg -
EGUV

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$ tesseract -psm 8 usea.jpg -
USEA

Here is my tesseract version:

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$ tesseract --version
tesseract 3.04.01
 leptonica-1.74.1
  libgif 4.1.6(?) : libjpeg 6b (libjpeg-turbo 1.5.1) : libpng 1.6.27 : libtiff 4.0.7 : zlib 1.2.8 : libwebp 0.5.2

I posted your example at https://mathieularose.com/decoding-captchas/