recognise bib numbers of runners

[icecoder]

I have a bunch of photos of runners wearing bibs (race numbers) and trying to use tesseract to extract these numbers. So far I have been been able to succeed as I always end up with an empty text string. 

Any pointers to help achieve this is most welcome. 

using (var engine = new TesseractEngine(@"./tessdata", "eng", EngineMode.Default)) {

                using(var img = Pix.(@"C:\projects\tesseract\x.png")) {

                    using(var page = engine.Process(img)) {

                        var text = page.GetText();

[Max Tetlow]

Hi Icecoder,

I came across your post and would love to find out if you managed to work out a solution for this. Please message me at max.t...@googlemail.com should you have any info on this. Would love to chat!

Thanks in advance!