Single Character Recognition? How to change page segmentation mode? I'm a complete newbie.

[TMT888]

I am using capture2text which uses tesseract.

However I need it to recognize single characters. In my search I have found I need to change page segmentation mode to single characters (mode 10 I believe). I can't figure out where to go from here though. Everything I've read I don't understand, I barely know HTML and never learned any coding.

[Dan9er]

tesseract input.jpg out --psm 10

[David Sixela]

Are you willing to do that within the terminal (if yes see Dan9er's answer) or you're using a particular language ?

[TMT888]

I am willing, I got to this:

https://i.gyazo.com/7aa4cce15ea8207e968c81c95c22589e.png

I am not sure what to do from here. But I'll keep trying different things.

[David Sixela]

I don't know much about Capture2text, but according to the picture you just sent, make sure to give the right filename and the right path to it.
Is the picture you're trying to read called "input.jpg" ? If yes, is it saved in "C:\Capture2Text_v3.8\Utils\Tesseract" ?

After googling "Capture2Text", you should try to to check the settings according to this http://capture2text.sourceforge.net/#specify_ocr_language , you might be able to set the page segmentation mode somewhere in there.

Hope this can help.

[TMT888]

Thanks very much for the help, I think I got it finally :)

[Dan9er]

Ew, Sourceforge!

If I were you I would IMMEDIATELY install Malwarebytes and run a scan because EVERYTHING from freeware sites is stuffed with malware. NEVER GET ANYTHING FROM SOURCEFORGE.

[David Sixela]

LOL Dan9er, i didn't download anything from there, i was just showing the document