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Tesseract identifies a 0 as a Q


I am using Tesseract OCR for getting an exclusively numeric string in a PDF file. The PDF contains : 66600O3377.pdf but Tesseract recognizes : 66600Q3377.pdf

The input is a TIFF file, the quality is good enough (see the screenshot).

Is there a way to improve the Tesseract accuracy ? I could always change Q for a 0 but I'm afraid of further unexpected mistakes.

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Solution

  • This is in Tesseract FAQ:

    Run a tesseract command like this to only permit digits in input image:

    tesseract imagename outputbase digits