ghostscript vs imagemagick

[rpedela]

By default, tesseract produces gibberish for me. I noticed that convert is commented out in favor of gs. I tried convert -depth 8 -background white -flatten -matte -density 300 <input> <output> instead and tesseract produced great results. The whole process was a lot faster too: ~15 minutes vs ~1 minute for 6 pages. I am curious why ghostscript is used rather than imagemagick for conversion?

[sawyerh]

+1 — Imagmagick produced better results for me as well, though it proved to be a pain in the ass to install locally.

[nisaacson]

Thanks for the suggestion. I will look into switching over to imagemagick

[JustinElst]

Any word on this?