I had a tiff file, which contain some text separated by tabs (4 spaces). But when I extract text out of this tiff image file, i always get a single space between two columns. A sample example:
TIFF IMAGE: col-a col-b col-c desired output: col-a col-b col-c but I am getting the following: col-a col-b col-c I tried this with multiple images of same format, but the result is always the same. How do I fix this issue ? Can I train tesseract to understand this?
Tesseract compresses consecutive spaces into one. You would need to modify baseapi.cpp to preserve the spaces. The code change can be found in the following posts:
After a very long research I found the solution. Here are the steps to follow
Upgrade your tesseract to 3.04
Create config.txt (Create a file in the directory where you input the image file)
In config file define "preserve_interword_spaces"
After the work preserve_interword_spaces give either 0 or 1. Ex:
preserve_interword_spaces 0
or
preserve_interword_spaces 1