Output cropped words

[Nathan Cain]

I have a project similar to recaptcha where I need humans to type words instead of computer ocr. Is there a way for tesseract to split an image into words and output the words as separate image files?

[Ryan Baumann]

Hi Nathan,

I adapted the Tesseract API examples (https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/APIExample) to do this for saving line images to feed into another OCR program: https://github.com/ryanfb/tesslinesplit

If you change RIL_TEXTLINE to RIL_WORD in tesslinesplit.cpp and compile, it should work for splitting an image into words.

Best,

-Ryan