Thanks Bernard for the answers. I was comparing boths versions of Tesseract with no intial pre-processing...I seem to be the only one with the issue, so there has to be somewhere.
I did get better results than the one I posted as well after processing the image with unpaper. I'll compare with the scantailor settings you posted. Cheers! 2014-03-11 7:31 GMT-04:00 Bernard Polarski <[email protected]>: > > With --threshold=-42 we have a near miss 100%. ( 98¨% ?) > The funny thing is that with -45 tesseract resolves the broken 'to' > correctly but we start to see regressions. > the word 'another' is incorrectly set to 'mother' at -42 and correctly set > at -45. > > In Both case the first B is correctly resolved and this is amazing. > > So if it is a full book you have probably your right scantailor setting. > > /opt/out> sdiff a42.txt a45.txt > POPULAR TALES POPULAR > TALES > 0' | OF > THE WEST HIGHLANDS. THE WEST > HIGHLANDS. > + + > XVIII. XVIII. > T H E C H E S T. T H E C H > E S T. > From Mrs MacGeaehy. lslsy. | From Mrs > MacGeeehy, lslsy. > BEFORE this there was a king, and he wished BEFORE > this there was a king, and he wished > to see his son with n wifo before he should deport | to see his > son with n wife before he should dqqu > His son said he had better go for a wife ; and he gave | His son > said he had better go for a wife; and he gave > him half a hundred pounds to get her. He went for- him half a > hundred pounds to get her. He went for- > ward the length of a day, and when the night came he ward the > length of a day, and when the night came he > went in to a hostelry to stay in it. He went down to a | went in to > a hostelry to stay in it He went down to a > chamber with a good fire in front of him; and when he chamber > with a good fire in front of him; and when he > had gotten meat, the man of the house went down to | hm! gotten > meat, the men of the house went down to > talk to him. He told the man of the house the jour- talk to > him. He told the man of the house the jour- > ney on which he was The man of the house told ney on > which he was The man of the house told > him he need not go further; that there was a little him he > need not go further; that there was a little > house opposite to his sleeping chamber ; that the man house > opposite to his sleeping chamber ; that the man > of the house had three fine daughters ; and if he would of the > house had three fine daughters ; and if he would > stand in the window of his chamber in the morning, stand in > the window of his chamber in the morning, > that he would see one after mother coming ‘0 dress | that he > would see one after another coming to dress > herself. That they were all like each other, and that herself. > That they were all like each other, and that > he could not distinguish one from the other, but that he could > not distinguish one from the other, but that > v01. IL 3 - | 101. IL a - > \ \ > > > -- > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- -- 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/d/optout.
