Oh indeed, this case is very complex. Another possible thing is to train tesseract for this kind fo situations, but it is a heavy process indeed.
regards Jean-Philippe MENGUAL HYPRA, progressons ensemble Tél.: 01 84 73 06 61 Mail: cont...@hypra.fr Site Web: http://www.hypra.fr ----- Joe <j...@jretrading.com> a écrit : > On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 08:22:37 +1000 > "Stephen Grant Brown" <steve.brown_...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > What is the best OCR package to use to scan the receipts given > > immediately after making a purchase? Yours Sincerely > > If you mean general retail receipts, are you sure this is a practical > proposition? > > I have to look closely at various receipts I get in order to decipher > dates and prices, often with the printed characters broken, and > sometimes made with a dodgy printer. > > I keep a web-accessible database of 'important' receipts, but I just > scan them to greyscale PNG and manually type in the goods, date, > supplier and category. Even then, I sometimes have to tweak the scan > parameters to get a (human-)legible result. > > I have seen a purpose-made business card scanner, which produced what I > thought were amazing results about ten years ago, particularly given the > infinite layout possibilities of cards. But it was seeing brand-new > cards, with high quality commercial printing, not some wrinkled scrap > of paper from an old thermal dot matrix printer, with the > 'time-for-a-new-roll' red stripe down the middle. > > Best of luck. > > -- > Joe >