Hi Vicky, thanks for the reply. Let's definitely take this offline. Tesseract-OCR Newsgroup Subscribers: sorry for this. I hit "reply" thinking my response was going to Vicky alone.
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Vicky Budhiraja <vicky.vi...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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%20of%20David%20Memorial%20Gardens/Garden%20of%20Haifa%20-%20Raw/IMG_28215.jpg<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ejanderse/cemeteries/Star%20of%20David%20Memorial%20Gardens/Garden%20of%20Haifa%20-%20Raw/IMG_28215.jpg> > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~janderse/cemeteries/Star%20of%20David%20Memorial%20Gardens/Garden%20of%20Haifa%20-%20Raw/IMG_28216.jpg<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ejanderse/cemeteries/Star%20of%20David%20Memorial%20Gardens/Garden%20of%20Haifa%20-%20Raw/IMG_28216.jpg> > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~janderse/cemeteries/Star%20of%20David%20Memorial%20Gardens/Garden%20of%20Haifa%20-%20Raw/IMG_28217.jpg<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ejanderse/cemeteries/Star%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. > > > > Any advice on improving OCR accuracy through pre-processing steps? > > > > Thanks so much, > > > > -Jon > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "tesseract-ocr" group. > To post to this group, send email to tesseract-ocr@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tesseract-ocr+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "tesseract-ocr" group. > To post to this group, send email to tesseract-ocr@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tesseract-ocr+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "tesseract-ocr" group. > To post to this group, send email to tesseract-ocr@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tesseract-ocr+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "tesseract-ocr" group. > To post to this group, send email to tesseract-ocr@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tesseract-ocr+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. 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