Is there a control param for tesseract to disable line breaks within a paragraph?

[Bruce]

For example with the image attached, I get the output:

• Chapter One
  
• 
  
• A royal-red Ford F—150 Super-
  
• Crew rolled through the streets
  
• of Albany, Georgia. The pickup’s
  
• driver brimmed with optimism, so
  
• much that he couldn’t possibly
  
• foresee the battles about to hit
  
• his hometown.
  
• 
  
• Life here is going to be good,
  
• thirty—seven—year—old Nathan
  
• Hayes told himself. After eight
  
• years in Atlanta, Nathan had
  
• come home to Albany, three
  
• hours south, with his wife and

Is there a way to make the output as the below, without the line breaks within a paragraph?

• Chapter One
  
• 
  
• A royal-red Ford F—150 Super-Crew rolled through the streets of Albany, Georgia. The pickup’s driver brimmed with optimism, so much that he couldn’t possibly foresee the battles about to hit his hometown.
  
• 
  
• Life here is going to be good, thirty—seven—year—old Nathan Hayes told himself. After eight years in Atlanta, Nathan had come home to Albany, three hours south, with his wife and
  

Thanks in advance!

[Quan Nguyen]

I'm afraid not. You can use any programming editor that supports Regex find/replace to do it for you, or use a tool such as VietOCR to remove line breaks from the output text.

[Bruce]

Aww.. I tried removing the '\n' line breaks manually, however for some articles, the paragraph break still consists of single '\n' line break so if I remove that too doing a find/replace I loses the paragraph break. How did VietOCR solve this issue?

[Quan Nguyen]

It employs a proper Regex statement. Following is the function in Java that it uses:

    /**
     * Removes line breaks.
     * @param text
     * @return
     */
    public static String removeLineBreaks(String text) {
        return text.replaceAll("(?<=\n|^)[\t ]+|[\t ]+(?=$|\n)", "").replaceAll("(?<=.)\n(?=.)", " ");
    }

[Bruce]

It works wonderfully.. can you explain more on the Regex statement? I can't understand what the first regex statement is matching against. 

Thanks again for sharing your wonderful solution!!

[Satya Swaroop]

Seeking the same solution for iOS,please give solution.

[Quan Nguyen]

The 1st part trims all the tab or space characters at the beginning and end of each line or of the text.

The 2nd part replaces all the single line-feed (newline) characters with spaces, effectively joining the lines. So if you want to retain the paragraph, mark it with 2 or more LF characters.