Re: [tesseract-ocr] Pros and cons of .tiff vs .png

[Thad Guidry]

There's a few Wiki pages that cover some of this.
You can see the pages that have "png" mentioned by doing a search on Github
and then filtering on Wiki (instead of default Code)
Here's the filtered result pages from the Wiki that talk about "png".

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/search?q=png&type=Wikis

Thad
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/


On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 5:13 PM teksts <mark.egelho...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm fairly new to tesseract (and to programming work in general), and am
> trying to get my bearings. Almost everything I have seen recommends/assumes
> that I feed .tiff files into tesseract to be ocr'd, but I recently came
> across some posts suggesting that .png is less finicky, and might be better
> to use. What are the pros and cons of each filetype? Does it make much of a
> difference? Can I use .png for training purposes as well?
>
> Thanks for your time
>
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