Help processing this tiny image with a date

[Juanjo Gómez Navarro]

Good morning, I'm trying to use Tesseract to read dates in image files. The problem I have is that the image is rather small. This is the cropped image with the date I have to process:

After some processing with Scikit-Image (rescaling, adding a white border, erosion and binarising) I get this image:

To me it reads pretty well. Still, tesseract  reads "» MAY 2021". The "5" is missing.

How can I process the image to get the desired output, i.e. "5 MAY 2021".

I'm using tesseract 4.1.1 with pytesseract.

[Zdenko Podobny]

> tesseract -v
tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20210401-66-g91b2b4
 leptonica-1.81.0 (Apr 16 2021, 16:18:45) [MSC v.1928 LIB Release x64]
  libgif 5.2.1 : libjpeg 6b (libjpeg-turbo 2.0.91) : libpng 1.6.37 : libtiff 4.2.0 : zlib 1.2.11 : libwebp 1.2.0 : libopenjp2 2.4.0
 Found AVX2
 Found AVX
 Found FMA
 Found SSE4.1
 Found libarchive 3.5.1 zlib/1.2.11 liblzma/5.2.4 bz2lib/1.0.6 libzstd/1.4.9

> echo %TESSDATA_PREFIX%

t:\Project-Personal\tessdata_best\tessdata

> tesseract 5_may_2021.jpg - --psm 7 -l eng
5 MAY 2021

5_may_2021.jpg is your first image (white text on black)

Zdenko

ut 11. 5. 2021 o 11:19 Juanjo Gómez Navarro <juanjo.go...@gmail.com> napísal(a):

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