Given that you're not very technical, I'd recommend Scan Tailor. It should walk you through the preprocessing.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 06:38:09AM -0800, MOU Mukherjee wrote: > Thanks Richard. I did read the FAQs but am confused which software is the best > to use to clean/pre-process the image before running on Tesseract. I need to > convert FAXES into text files, but currently they are all coming up garbled. > Please help! thank you. > > On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 12:45:28 AM UTC-5, Richard Wang wrote: > > I suggest you to read the FAQ of tesseract, your question is > > "Why is the output is empty or of poor quality?" > > and you will find the answer. there are several pieces of freeware you can > use. > > On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 4:25:05 AM UTC+8, MOU Mukherjee wrote: > > hi, I have recently started using the Tesseract OCR tool (on Windows), > so need help from the experts!!! I tested the tool using a simple > "Tiff" file which worked. However, the more complex image docs are not > running properly at all, the output is totally garbled. Can you > please > advise which software/tool I need to use to Pre-Process/Clean the > Input > file so that I may get the desired output? I am confused if I need > ImageMagick, GIMP or other tool, and which version to run? PLEASE > HELP/ > suggest how to clean the image prior to running tesseract? THANKS so > much for your time!! > > -- > -- > 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email > to tesseract-ocr+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tesseract-ocr+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.