Hi KIP,
I am a Hindu, but not converged to a particular God! The thing that made me so sensitive about that email Images were as follows: 1- Whenever a person is dead in India and he/she is being taken to last cremention ground on the way, whenever or whoever looks that 'yatra' always remember his God, he believes into 2- When you are looking at the headstone-images that is of someone dead (no longer alive) you have to pay respect and I pay it by remembering my God plus simply forwarding all of my help to Jon 3- Last, I am currently working on background removal from medical scans in DICOM images, so it was technically related! I hope that answers your questions. If not, let us discuss this offline otherwise we can be painted as an OT J Best Regards, Vicky From: tesseract-ocr@googlegroups.com [mailto:tesseract-ocr@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kip Hughes Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 10:00 To: tesseract-ocr@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Image pre-processing for good OCR results Hi Vicky, I have an interest in theology and just wanted to know which of the god(s) are you "god fearing" of? In my experience, the phrase "god fearing" has been used predominantly by Christians. I checked your LinkedIn profile and confirmed you are from India. Less than 3% of Indians are Christians -- so, based on this statistic, I would guess you are not a Christian. Over 80% of Indians are Hindus -- and if I had to make a guess about any Indian's religion, I would go with that one. Are you a Hindu? Hinduism a polytheistic religion, isn't it? Why would you only be a "God fearing person" versus "gods fearing person?" Finally, is there some significance that headstones have in your religion (whatever it may be) that made you unable to ignore Jon's email? Hope you don't mind the questions. They are really just due to my interest in world religions and world views. Thanks, KIP On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Vicky Budhiraja <vicky.vi...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Jon, Like each morning, I check my emails and I saw those headstones Images from Graves. I am a God fearing person. So, I was not able to ignore your email. Regarding the preprocessing step, I suggest to apply Local Minima method for background removal. However, you might require to adjust your window size in order to achieve the best results. I did some experiments with the MATLAB code, and I got some good results. Testing on a larger sample set, may improve the step. Please tell me what project you are working on, maybe I will be able to contribute better? Just lemme know if you need any type of help! Best Regards, Vicky From: tesseract-ocr@googlegroups.com [mailto:tesseract-ocr@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jon Andersen Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 07:32 To: tesseract-ocr@googlegroups.com Subject: Image pre-processing for good OCR results Hi, My project at http://RecordAGrave.com is about recording headstones from graves and posting the text and images on the Net so that people can research their family history. I would appreciate some advice on how to pre-process these headstone images to get the best results from Tesseract OCR. I have thousands of 1-2 MB jpg images of headstones to process. Example images: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~janderse/cemeteries/Star%2 0of%20David%20Memorial%20Gardens/Garden%20of%20Haifa%20-%20Raw/IMG_28215.jpg <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ejanderse/cemeteries/Sta r%20of%20David%20Memorial%20Gardens/Garden%20of%20Haifa%20-%20Raw/IMG_28215. jpg> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~janderse/cemeteries/Star%2 0of%20David%20Memorial%20Gardens/Garden%20of%20Haifa%20-%20Raw/IMG_28216.jpg <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ejanderse/cemeteries/Sta r%20of%20David%20Memorial%20Gardens/Garden%20of%20Haifa%20-%20Raw/IMG_28216. jpg> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~janderse/cemeteries/Star%2 0of%20David%20Memorial%20Gardens/Garden%20of%20Haifa%20-%20Raw/IMG_28217.jpg <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ejanderse/cemeteries/Sta r%20of%20David%20Memorial%20Gardens/Garden%20of%20Haifa%20-%20Raw/IMG_28217. jpg> I am a software developer so I can script up pre-processing steps to prepare the input for Tesseract. 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