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manisandro / gImageReader

A Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr.
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Is it possible to use the latest version with Tesseract 4? #587

Closed rframil closed 2 years ago

rframil commented 2 years ago

I have been using gImageReader 3.3.0 for a while and OCR works beautifully. I want to upgrade to the latest version to take advantage of the new proof reading feature, but unfortunately OCR became much worse for me after upgrading.

I believe the problem is Tesseract 5, because I've tried using exactly the same tessdata files, also different ones and played around with settings, and nothing seems to work except downgrading gImageReader to 3.3.0.

I can't figure out how to force gImageReader 3.4.0 to use Tesseract 4, if that's possible.

Thanks!

manisandro commented 2 years ago

I'm afraid the only way is to recompile gImageReader from source against tesseract 4.

rframil commented 2 years ago

Thanks. I'll do that.