image processing to improve tesseract OCR accuracy

Question

I\'ve been using tesseract to convert documents into text. The quality of the documents ranges wildly, and I\'m looking for tips on what sort of image processing might impr

Answer 1

I am by no means an OCR expert. But I this week had need to convert text out of a jpg.

I started with a colorized, RGB 445x747 pixel jpg. I immediately tried tesseract on this, and the program converted almost nothing. I then went into GIMP and did the following. image>mode>grayscale image>scale image>1191x2000 pixels filters>enhance>unsharp mask with values of radius = 6.8, amount = 2.69, threshold = 0 I then saved as a new jpg at 100% quality.

Tesseract then was able to extract all the text into a .txt file

Gimp is your friend.