Slashes in numerical date not recognized

[Michael Beauregard]

Hey everyone,

I'm struggling to get an image with a date to be recognized correctly and would like some advice if possible. 

The image has the text "1946/05/29" using the following command:

tesseract date.png date.out -psm 6

is recognized as:

$ cat date.out.txt

1 946I05I29

I can deal with the unwanted space character easy enough, but I don't know what to do about the capital 'i' instead of forward slashes '/'. Interestingly enough, I enumerated through the ResultIterator and ChoiceIterator to see what symbols tesseract is matching and found that the forward slash isn't even considered:

 

Result: I                                     

choice: I=99.000870                           

choice: l=96.095596                           

choice: !=89.777245                           

choice: i=84.559441                           

I would have expected one of the choices to be '/', but it wasn't.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Michael

[Ian Carroll]

Michael,

Any chance you solved this (old) problem? I'm encountering the same issue and haven't found a fix yet.

Thanks,

Ian

[Michael Beauregard]

I don't think I ever found a solution to this, but it was so long ago I don't remember for sure. The project ended not long after posting the question and so I never had the chance to follow up.

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[Will Hansen]

Ian,

Did you ever have any luck solving this? I'm dealing with the same issue. I can't get Tesseract to recognize the slash in a date like MM/DD no matter what I try!

Will

[Supriya Das]

hello  Everybody,

    You can train this kind of "/" using tesseract. and use the train file for solve this problem.

    or

    you can do some post processing algorithm.