[tesseract-ocr] Re: Meter Reading with tesseract

2017-06-22 Thread Ngoc Thanh Huynh
Hi Jess, I know it was a long time ago but are you still playing with Tesseract? I am currently doing my final year project in uni and I am trying to use Tesseract which doesn't give me a high successful rate (like 20%). I really desire to know how you do your preprocessing and training data.

Re: Meter Reading with tesseract

2013-01-23 Thread Sven Pedersen
Hi Mehdi, She has not posted to the list in a while, but Nick suggested using ImageMagick command line to someone with a similar issue: convert in.png -monochrome -density 600 -compress none out.tif Perhaps you can search the archives with 'tesseract meter reading' --Sven On Wed, Jan 23, 2013

Re: Meter Reading with tesseract

2013-01-23 Thread Mehdi Chouiten
Jessica, can you please explain in a more detailed way your method ? I'm facing the same problem as you. Thanks. On Tuesday, 27 July 2010 16:00:19 UTC+2, erwin.clo...@gmail.com wrote: > > Is Tesseract suited to extract a meter reading from a picture of a > gas, electricity or water meter ? > >

Re: Meter Reading with tesseract

2010-09-24 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On 24 September 2010 10:06, Giuseppe Menga wrote: > Jessica, > I'm fearly interested. > In my case I have to recognize the expiration date of medecins, and for the > numbers, the used fonts are difficult to find. > I also was planning to train tesseract directly from a set of photos. > Are you usi

Re: Meter Reading with tesseract

2010-09-24 Thread Giuseppe Menga
icial release? I'm interested to have more details. Giuseppe -- From: "Jessica Ulyate" Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 9:03 AM To: "tesseract-ocr" Subject: Re: Meter Reading with tesseract I am currently using Tesserac

Re: Meter Reading with tesseract

2010-09-24 Thread Jessica Ulyate
I am currently using Tesseract to recognize characters from photos of water meters. I've used a variety of methods to extract a clean, black and white line of numbers from the photo and I've trained a new character set that is comprised of images of the dials. The biggest issue I'd say is not train

Re: Meter Reading with tesseract

2010-07-27 Thread Jimmy O'Regan
On 27 July 2010 15:00, erwin.cloosterm...@gmail.com wrote: > Is Tesseract suited to extract a meter reading from a picture of a > gas, electricity or water meter ? > No more than it is to reading licence plates, but people have tried anyway - whether or not they're successful, I can't say (the li

meter reading with tesseract... and Google PowerMeter

2010-07-27 Thread erwin.cloosterm...@gmail.com
additional idea: it might be usefull to integrate tesseract with google powermeter. Or to have an app that extracts the necessary data from a picture of a meter to fill the fields of the PowerMeter API -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" g

Meter Reading with tesseract

2010-07-27 Thread erwin.cloosterm...@gmail.com
Is Tesseract suited to extract a meter reading from a picture of a gas, electricity or water meter ? It would be nice to be able to take a picture of your meters with your smartphone and then upload the results to a spreadsheet or to your company's website. Now I have the possibility to manually e