Read 2 column Image Horizontally (line by line) rather than Vertically (column by column)

[Mike Hall]

We have a C# .Net app that is using Tesseract to do Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on .tiff files.  I've attached a sample tiff file.

We are then outputting the data to a text file.  However, Tesseract is reading the data in a Vertical fashion.  In my example image, it is reading the tiff as two columns of data and the data the data is being outputted from Tesseract like this:
 
TYPE:

DATE:

Address:

City:

State:

Owner:

Owner Type:

Acreage:

Mortgage:

12345

2017-04-06

100 Main St.

Some City

Some State

John Doe

Primary

10.25

Yes

What we want is Tesseract to read the tiff file horizontally and have the output look like this:

TYPE:

12345

DATE:

2017-04-06

Address:

100 Main St.

City:

Some City

State:

Some State

Owner:

John Doe

Owner Type:

Primary

Acreage:

10.25

Mortgage:

Yes

We've tried the various Page Sementation options for Tesseract, but they all produce the same result.

Has anyone run into this same issue? Anybody have any ideas?

[ShreeDevi Kumar]

Have u tried --psm 6

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[Mike Hall]

Yes, we are using the -psm 6 command line argument.  And it was not working.

But I figured out the issue. 

Tesseract has a set of config files. Inside several of these config files (hocr, pdf, tsv, unlv) is the setting tessedit_pageseg_mode. This setting was set to 1 in all the config files.   Once I removed the tessedit_pageseg_mode parameter from the config files, our command line argument of -psm 6 worked.

Alternatively, I did experiment with the config files.  When I changed the tessedit_pageseg_mode setting to 6 in all the config files and ran Tesseract with the -psm 6 command line argument, it also worked.

Thanks

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[ShreeDevi Kumar]

Normally, for text output, the other config files should not impact.

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[Mike Hall]

We are using hocr and pdf outputs as well.