How to use OpenCV / Tesseract to recognise Text on a poster images

asked 2016-11-14 00:52:23 -0600

samueltin1018 gravatar image

Dear All,

I am new to OpenCV and Tesseract. Currently, I am working on a project which needs to recognise text on some poster images. I tried Tesseract but the result is not very good. I am thinking of should I use OpenCV to pre-process the image before using Tesseract to recognise the text. Can anyone kindly give me some high-level directions on what kind of OpenCV technologies I should applyC:\fakepath\vip2_trim_80.jpg. I attached a sample image that I want to extract text from the image.

Thank you very much for your help.

Samuel

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Tesseract works better on an image that is

  • Rectified, so no lens or position distortion
  • A binarized edge map of the text to analyse

How to get there depends on how much variation you want to allow

StevenPuttemans gravatar imageStevenPuttemans ( 2016-11-14 06:12:50 -0600 )edit
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