You'll need to access Tessearct API for such information, specifically, ResultIterator and ResultIteratorWordFontAttributes. Check out the API Example <http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/APIExample> page.
Quan On Friday, September 20, 2013 3:42:14 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > I would like to show the user the OCR output in my Windows application in > a graphical form (the OCR'd characters, in the specified font, in the right > location), in order to do that I need to pick a font to draw the OCR output > text in, and it seems like I have two choices - > 1) Map the Tesseract font to something Windows can understand > 2) Use the actual Tesseract font > > For #1, Tesseract uses a lot of fonts that I've got on my Windows box > (Times New Roman, Arial, etc.) but then it also comes up with some I don't > have (Century Schoolbook). Is there a way to enumerate all the names of > the fonts that Tesseract might return? I can then decide whether it's > easier to find Windows equivalent for all the fonts, or to download fonts > (if they are free and have nice licensing). > > For #2, it's not enough to just display the selected portion of the source > image, that doesn't tell the user anything. I would need a way to ask > Tesseract, "what is the glyph for an uppercase G in an Arial font of height > 34". Does that exist? > > Thanks, > Chris > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
