Preprocessing image for Tesseract OCR with OpenCV

Question

I\'m trying to develop an App that uses Tesseract to recognize text from documents taken by a phone\'s cam. I\'m using OpenCV to preprocess the image for better recognition,

Answer 1

You can play around with the configuration of the OCR by changing the --psm and --oem values, in your case specifically I will suggest using

--psm 3 --oem 2

you can also look at the following link for further details here