Reading text from a table

[max.r...@auxilion.de]

Hi,

I am trying to use Tesseract to extract the text from the attached image.
I am particularly interested in reading the values from the table. Unfortunately the table is not read while everything else is fine.
I have tried to crop the image so that it only contains the table which does not help. But when just reading a single line of the table it works fine.
So I assume the problem is caused by the thick lines of the table? What can I try to solve the problem?

Thanks and Best Regards,
Max

[Quan Nguyen]

You'll need to remove the lines first. Try the following algorithm outlined in Leptonica example:

http://www.leptonica.com/line-removal.html

Or use OpenCV:

http://docs.opencv.org/3.1.0/d1/dee/tutorial_moprh_lines_detection.html

[max.r...@auxilion.de]

Thank you very much for your quick answer and the provided links.
I had hoped for a slightly simpler solution.
I had found the first link already myself. But the second also seems to be interesting.