Extract text from picture problem

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I am trying to use tesseract 3.01 to develop an iPhone app which can extract 
the content of a label. I used the Pocket ocr iPhone app 
(http://robertcarlsen.net/dev/pocket-ocr) to process the picture of the label. 
But I can't get the correct text.

input image: find the attachment

output: 
lll;a;af
;ll\ls
M\\ 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
tesseract 3.01  iOS (sdk 5)

Maybe the edge of text is not sharp enough? Is there anything I can do to 
extract the correct text? I am a OCR's beginner. Any advice would be 
appreciated!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Su.Sha...@gmail.com on 23 Feb 2012 at 1:21

Attachments:

• photo.JPG

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You need to make take better (clearer) image or preprocess it. See 
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/FAQ#Output_without_result_or_bad_out
put or http://www.sk-spell.sk.cx/through-tesseract-ocr-eye

Original comment by zde...@gmail.com on 21 Jul 2012 at 3:03

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