[ask] unrecognized text in particular layout

[denny.m...@gmail.com]

hi all,

could anyone kindly explain why the text "YTOVWG" in ocr3.jpg is not recognized
but can be recognized in ocr4.jpg ?

thank you

>tesseract ocr3.jpg f1  -l eng
Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v3.02 with Leptonica

>type f1.txt
Booking Details
Booking Reference (PNR):

>tesseract ocr4.jpg f1  -l eng
Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v3.02 with Leptonica

>type f1.txt
YTOVWG

[Tom Morris]

On Saturday, June 25, 2016 at 2:45:51 PM UTC-4, denny.m...@gmail.com wrote:

could anyone kindly explain why the text "YTOVWG" in ocr3.jpg is not recognized
but can be recognized in ocr4.jpg ?

As a guess, I'd say because the mixed fonts on a single line and large gap before the booking reference make it think that's its a graphic rather than text.

Having said that, all the text gets recognized perfectly with 3.05dev. I'd upgrade to 3.04 and see if that fixes the problem/

Tom