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[Bug 710586] Re: X 1.0rc2: Region.text() -- known problems and needed improvements
** Description changed:
******* this report is a summary of known problems
The text recognition feature (OCR - Region.text()) together with the
possibility to find text in an image is still experimental and under
developement.
This are currently reported bugs:
bug 777660: text recognition errors with some fonts
+ bug 783082: [request] want font parameters for text recognition
bug 735434: Text extraction from Images fails in some cases on colored backgrounds
bug 695616: Inconsistency in text recognition and matching, especially with integers-as-text!
bug 695650: find(text).text() does not return same text
bug 701005: text() always returns text with trailing x'200A20'
bug 701012: text() does not return all intervening blanks, add's others
Other experienced oddities
-- there are problems with text, that is not in english language
-- very small and very large fonts may not work
-- multiline text makes problems
-- intervening/preceding/trailing grafics and symbols are tried to be interpreted as text
Tip when using Region.text():
Currently you get the best results, when the region represents only one line of text and only contains text (no graphics/symbols) in english language. If you can influence it: make the text as large as possible.
-- additional information:
Internally the tesseract OCR engine (http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/) is used.
So their restrictions apply (e.g. minimum size of font, ...).
Information can be found on their Wiki.
** Description changed:
- ******* this report is a summary of known problems
+ ******* this report is a summary of known problems and feature requests
The text recognition feature (OCR - Region.text()) together with the
possibility to find text in an image is still experimental and under
developement.
This are currently reported bugs:
bug 777660: text recognition errors with some fonts
bug 783082: [request] want font parameters for text recognition
bug 735434: Text extraction from Images fails in some cases on colored backgrounds
bug 695616: Inconsistency in text recognition and matching, especially with integers-as-text!
bug 695650: find(text).text() does not return same text
bug 701005: text() always returns text with trailing x'200A20'
bug 701012: text() does not return all intervening blanks, add's others
Other experienced oddities
-- there are problems with text, that is not in english language
-- very small and very large fonts may not work
-- multiline text makes problems
-- intervening/preceding/trailing grafics and symbols are tried to be interpreted as text
Tip when using Region.text():
Currently you get the best results, when the region represents only one line of text and only contains text (no graphics/symbols) in english language. If you can influence it: make the text as large as possible.
-- additional information:
Internally the tesseract OCR engine (http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/) is used.
So their restrictions apply (e.g. minimum size of font, ...).
Information can be found on their Wiki.
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Title:
X 1.0rc2: Region.text() -- known problems and needed improvements
Status in Sikuli:
In Progress
Bug description:
******* this report is a summary of known problems and feature
requests
The text recognition feature (OCR - Region.text()) together with the
possibility to find text in an image is still experimental and under
developement.
This are currently reported bugs:
bug 777660: text recognition errors with some fonts
bug 783082: [request] want font parameters for text recognition
bug 735434: Text extraction from Images fails in some cases on colored backgrounds
bug 695616: Inconsistency in text recognition and matching, especially with integers-as-text!
bug 695650: find(text).text() does not return same text
bug 701005: text() always returns text with trailing x'200A20'
bug 701012: text() does not return all intervening blanks, add's others
Other experienced oddities
-- there are problems with text, that is not in english language
-- very small and very large fonts may not work
-- multiline text makes problems
-- intervening/preceding/trailing grafics and symbols are tried to be interpreted as text
Tip when using Region.text():
Currently you get the best results, when the region represents only one line of text and only contains text (no graphics/symbols) in english language. If you can influence it: make the text as large as possible.
-- additional information:
Internally the tesseract OCR engine (http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/) is used.
So their restrictions apply (e.g. minimum size of font, ...).
Information can be found on their Wiki.
References