Out of the box installation gives poor results

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Compile / Install 3.01 
2. Run on a known image file

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Looking at the output shown in issue 596 
(http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/issues/detail?id=596), I would expect 
quality similar to that.  I ran my version of tesseract on that same file 
(3.png) and get poor results comparatively speaking.
His results: 
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/issues/attachmentText?id=596&aid=59600030
01&name=3-301.txt&token=TQxBEDlu470eVgkBrThDWdvFRU4%3A1333633920487
My results: 
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/issues/attachmentText?id=596&aid=59600090
00&name=PNG-3.01.txt&token=h8I8J07Iw5bvzKAnOGXLcZd-_dY%3A1333633920488
As you can see there is a big difference in quality!

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

I have tried with both 3.00 and 3.01 (3.01 is a bit better).  OS is CentOS 5.4. 
 I have built Leptonica 1.68.  Attached is some additional version info 
(tesseract-3.01-ldd.txt).

Please provide any additional information below.

I have also added my comments to issue 596 as it seemed potentially relevant at 
the time.
My belief is that I have made some kind of 'schoolboy' error - can someone 
please guide me on what it is?
Thanks.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bamfords...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2012 at 2:11

• Merged into: #596

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Attached version info file.

Original comment by bamfords...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2012 at 2:14

Attachments:

• tesseract-3.01-ldd.txt

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Original comment by zde...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2012 at 5:21

• Changed state: Duplicate