New to Tesseract -- quick question

[Robert Edney]

Hi All,

I have a very simple Python program running that works for everything but what I need to do.  I need Tesseract to recognize a single character.  I've read up about this, which has served to confuse me further.  Here's my code:

from PIL import Image
import pytesseract
img = Image.open('/home/pi/Desktop/typeset.jpg')
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img)
#tesseract number.png stdout --psm 10
print(text)

The "typeset.jpg" is a single character, and Tesseract ignores it.  If I sub the image with one with two characters (or more), it works.

You can see that I've commented out "tesseract number.png stdout --psm 10" because it throws a syntax error.  My understanding is that I need that line to get Tesseract to create one box and read one character -- but I can't figure out how to make that work -- where to put it or any needed code with it -- and I've tried!

Thanks in advance for any help!

[Art Rhyno]

Hi,

 

I think you need the config parameter, for example:

 

text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img, config='--psm 10')

 

Best,

 

art

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