Timothy That looks promising. It will be ugly to work with but extracting text from a PDF can be no fun either.
I will download the tesseract and see if I can get it working. I will let you know how it works. Thanks From: Allison, Timothy B. [mailto:talli...@mitre.org] Sent: July 18, 2016 2:25 PM To: user@tika.apache.org Subject: RE: Extract Text from a TIFF image You'll need to set up tesseract to run Optical Character Recognition. While we have an integration with OCR, it is not bundled within the app. See https://wiki.apache.org/tika/TikaOCR For kicks, I ran this through Tika+Tesseract; this is the output you get once you've set up Tesseract: SUPPLIER: 3177 Invoice Date Description Amount Discount Net Amount 015-28339 06/08/2015 21,318.54 0.00 21,318.54 C15-28837 06/04/2015 1,529.75 0.00 1,529.75 01528978 06/04/2015 1,238.18 0.00 1,238.18 015-28978-01 06/04/2015 1,182.85 0.00 1,182.85 015-28439 06/01/2015 1,113.86 0.00 1,113.86 C15-29707 06/11/2015 886.84 0.00 886.64 C15-28978-02 06/04/2015 526.91 0.00 526.91 01529385 06/09/2015 199.29 0.00 199.29 C15~28439~01 06/03/2015 157.34 0.00 157.34 C15-28670 06/03/2015 136.52 0.00 136.52 C15-28314-01 06/03/2015 132.81 0.00 132.81 015-28576 06/02/2015 61.26 0.00 61.26 015-29413 06/11/2015 22.37 0.00 22.37 Cheque #: 83077 Cheque Date 7/14/2015 28,506.32 0.00 28,506.32 SUPPLIER: 3177 Invoice Date Description Amount Discount Net Amount C15-28339 06/08/2015 21,318.54 0.00 21,318.54 015-28837 06/04/2015 1,529.75 0.00 1,529.75 015-28978 06/04/2015 1,238.18 0.00 1,238.18 015-28978-01 06I04/2015 1 ,18285 0.00 1,182.85 C15-28439 06/01/2015 1,113.86 0.00 1,113.86 015-29707 06l11/2015 886.64 0.00 886.64 C15-28978~02 06/04/2015 526.91 0.00 526.91 015-29385 06/09/2015 199.29 0.00 199.29 C15-28439-01 06/03/2015 157.34 0.00 157.34 015-28670 06/03/2015 136.52 0.00 136.52 015-28314-01 06/03/2015 132.81 0.00 132.81 C15-28576 06/02/2015 61.26 0.00 61.26 015-29413 06/11/2015 22.37 0.00 22.37 Cheque #1 83077 Check Daie: 7/14/2015 28,506.32 0.00 28,506.32 07142015 MMDDYYYY TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED SIX CAD AND 32/ 100 $ "******28,506.32 Trans Am Piping Canada From: Gordon Schneider [mailto:schneid...@transampiping.com] Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 4:05 PM To: 'user@tika.apache.org' <user@tika.apache.org<mailto:user@tika.apache.org>> Subject: Extract Text from a TIFF image I have tried using the GUI for tika-app-1.13 but it shows nothing. I can see the metdata but that does not give me the information I need. I have attached the file. Maybe it is not possible to extract the text. If so what should I be looking for to tell me that it cannot extract the text. Thanks Gordon Schneider 403-236-0601 Trans Am Piping Products Ltd.
