) For preprocessing: look at scantailor - there are several forks with different improvements that also provide cli version. IMO it should be able to replace unpaper. I also recommend

* Use unpaper (https://github.com/unpaper/unpaper ) with default options to pre-process the scanned image. This really helps! > > * Convert to *.png and resize 50%. Doing

do some preprocessing to improve accuracy (ie, unpaper, > black/white, increased contrast), which yields preprocessed.png. > > When using the command > > tesseract

I ran unpaper >> > >> > http://unpaper.berlios.de/ >> > >> > >> > This made it possible to OCR 1500 pages basically without much trouble

So if someone sends in labels like the attached ones, I need to grab the model number. So far results

pretty smart pre-processing app before I get started. > This will be developed against a Linux OS, so right now I am looking at: > > Leptonica > ImageMagick > OpenCV >

no intial pre-processing...I seem to be the only one with the issue, so there has to be somewhere. I did get better results than the one I posted as well after processing the image with

of image pre-processing like >> unpaper as suggested here ? >> Following another post I have set "textord_heavy_nr" setting to "1" with no visible

I have two files.... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1531272/pg1-CROP.jpg and http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1531272