limit output to ASCII charset

[haratron]

http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/57222
"Also, it can generate output only in the US-ASCII character set, so
glyphs with accent marks or other unsupported attributes will probably
be reproduced incorrectly."

Which is the option to make it limit output to the ASCII charset only?
Some letters such as "a" are outputted as glyph symbols.

[Jimmy O'Regan]

That refers to an ancient version of Tesseract; since then, Tesseract
has added support for languages other than English, using Unicode by
default. I don't think there's any option to output to ASCII.

You might want to try something like unaccent (http://www.nongnu.org/unac/)

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[nguyenq]

You can perform some text manipulations in post-processing steps to
strip out diacritical marks to leave only the base ASCII characters
behind.

[Sriranga(77yrsold)]

Post-processing steps is a very excellent idea.
-srirnaga(77yrsold)

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[haratron]

Post-processing is certainly not the same thing. If you restrict the
tesseract engine itself to the ASCII charset, chances are that you're
raising accurasy by forcing it to consider a more sensible alternative
than the glyphs.
Anyway I found the answer to this one.
For anyone interested:
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/FAQ
Search for the "only digits" section. Instead of the digits, you just
define your allowed characters (a-z in my case).

[Sriranga(77yrsold)]

Wish you good luck and result of your experiments may please be posted.
-sriranga(77yrsold)