First of all: upgrade to the latest tesseract code. A lot fo fixes were
implemented in meantime

Next: "Error in fopenWriteStream"  indicate problem with the writing. Check
privileges, space etc. Than try to use other format (jpeg, png) if it helps.

Zdenko


pi 29. 3. 2019 o 17:42 Lucas L. <[email protected]> napĂ­sal(a):

> OK, I am running up against another issue, and it's getting weirder. Since
> Tesseract does not take PDFs as input, this service does the deed of
> breaking a PDF into pages, and then converting each of those pages to an
> image format (either lzw-compressed TIFF or uncompressed PPM if that
> fails). Somehow, if I run ImageMagick and then Tesseract on these pages
> individually from a command line using the same parameters in the service
> code, it runs fine processing the TIFF. But when the service runs, I get:
> Error in fopenWriteStream: stream not opened
> Error in pixWrite: stream not opened
>
> And the output pdf has all of the pages and they are not mangled...
> however they are shrunk into a tiny corner of the page. I have attached the
> resulting file. I feel that it is obvious from the fact that it works when
> I run it outside the service that it is a code issue... however I really am
> not sure what it could be doing differently from my command line. The pages
> come out looking great when I run tesseract on the individual pages
> manually. The errors do not appear when I run the command lines manually.
>
> The command lines and params I am using:
>
> Convert the input PDF (which is scanned and has no OCR layer) to input
> image:
> convert -depth 16 -density 300 -colorspace RGB -despeckle -flatten -compress
> lzw -background white -alpha off "/path/pg_0010.pdf" "/path/pg_0010.tif"
> Process the input image for OCR and output to PDF:
> tesseract -l eng "/path/pg_0010.tif" "/path/pg_0010" pdf
>
> Configuration parameters from /usr/share/tesseract-ocr/4.00/tessdata/
> configs
> tessedit_create_pdf 1
> tessedit_pageseg_mode 3
> tessedit_write_images true
>
>
> On Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 1:31:36 PM UTC-5, Lucas L. wrote:
>>
>> Environment
>>
>>    - Tesseract 4.0.0-beta.3-249-g607e
>>    - leptonica-1.76.0
>>    - Linux (hostname removed) 4.18.0-16-generic #17
>>    <https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/pull/17>-Ubuntu SMP Fri
>>    Feb 8 00:06:57 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> Current Behavior:
>>
>> I work at a SaaS firm which provides cloud storage services specializing
>> in documents. As a part of our service, we try to create PDFs with
>> searchable text layers from scanned documents. When processing PPMs which
>> are created by ImageMagick from the original document, Leptonica mangles
>> the image before it can be OCR'd properly by Tesseract. This results in a
>> PDF unreadable by both human eyes and Tesseract. This only seems to happen
>> for some specific documents.
>> How do I know it's Leptonica, specifically?
>>
>> I have executed Tesseract with the config values tessedit_write_images 1
>>  and tessedit_pageseg_mode 0. From my understanding, the second option
>> does not enable OCR at all while processing with Tesseract (which speeds up
>> my test cases) and the first option outputs a .tif debug image which is
>> apparently what Leptonica feeds to Tesseract after processing. That image
>> is also mangled.
>> Sample data
>>
>> I have extracted a single page from a PDF -- the process works on a
>> page-by-page basis and most of the documents we work with contain highly
>> sensitive information, so I had no other option but to do this. Regardless,
>> it is good sample data. The "pg_0009.ppm" file is the original input fed
>> into Tesseract on the command line which was converted from the original
>> scanned document by ImageMagick. The "tessinput.tif" file is the image
>> produced by the tessedit_write_images 1 option which is supposed to be
>> OCR'd by Tesseract. This particular page caused a seg fault in Tesseract,
>> something that doesn't usually happen, and I suspect it is because the text
>> is overlapped so many times that the OCR engine has too much to handle.
>>
>> Google Drive since it's too large for an attachment:
>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UCzXYu7iusep-bOD6EcKyBs2qXCqVdu5/view?usp=sharing
>> Expected Behavior:
>>
>> Leptonica leaves the image mostly intact so that Tesseract can provide a
>> proper text layer for the output PDF. Alternatively, a configuration option
>> is available to bypass Leptonica.
>>
>> Any and all help is appreciated with this issue. Thanks for reading.
>>
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