Can I check tesseract ocr on a windows command prompt?

Question

I am new to Tesseract OCR. I tried to convert the image to tif and run it to see what tesseract output using cmd in windows, but I could not. Could you help me? What will the team use?

Here is my sample image:

Answer 1

The simplest syntax for tesseract.exe is tesseract.exe inputimage output-text-file . It is assumed that tesseract.exe is added to the PATH environment variable. You can add the -psm N argument if your text argument is especially hard to recognize.

I see that the regular syntax (without any -psm switches) works quite well with the attached image if the level of accuracy is not good enough.

Please note that non-English characters (such as the character next to the recipe) are not recognized; my default setting contains only English instructional data.

Here is a description of the tesseract syntax:

 C:\Users\vish\Desktop>tesseract.exe Usage:tesseract.exe imagename outputbase [-l lang] [-psm pagesegmode] [configfile...] pagesegmode values are: 0 = Orientation and script detection (OSD) only. 1 = Automatic page segmentation with OSD. 2 = Automatic page segmentation, but no OSD, or OCR 3 = Fully automatic page segmentation, but no OSD. (Default) 4 = Assume a single column of text of variable sizes. 5 = Assume a single uniform block of vertically aligned text. 6 = Assume a single uniform block of text. 7 = Treat the image as a single text line. 8 = Treat the image as a single word. 9 = Treat the image as a single word in a circle. 10 = Treat the image as a single character. -l lang and/or -psm pagesegmode must occur before anyconfigfile. Single options: -v --version: version info --list-langs: list available languages for tesseract engine 

And here is the result for your image (NOTE: when I downloaded it, it will convert to a PNG image):

 C:\Users\vish\Desktop>tesseract.exe ECL8R.png out.txt Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v3.02 with Leptonica C:\Users\vish\Desktop>type out.txt.txt 1 Project Background A prescription (R) is a written order by a physician or medical doctor to a pharmacist in the form of medication instructions for an individual patient. You can't get prescription medicines unless someone with authority prescribes them. Usually, this means a written prescription from your doctor. Dentists, optometrists, midwives and nurse practitioners may also be authorized to prescribe medicines for you. It can also be defined as an order to take certain medications. A prescription has legal implications; this means the prescriber must assume his responsibility for the clinical care ofthe patient. Recently, the term "prescriptionΓÇ¥ has known a wider usage being used for clinical assessments,