Install into Xampp not working gave blank result? about tesseract-ocr-for-php

[ravitdx]

@imsocb

try run this command in the directory where image was there tesseract text.jpeg test.txt. If it shows text in test.txt,then In my opinion your path to text.jpeg in the above code might be wrong.

[imsocb]

Hi @ravitdx Thanks for the reply!
I've got tesseract working however, why is it returning nonsensical output as opposed to what it should be reading in my text.jpeg image? A sample of the image here --> https://www.dropbox.com/s/fhfolj3bsnxms64/text.jpeg?dl=0
I'm rather new in using PHP via OCR technologies to translate image into text, how do i get it to read the correct English/number text content in the namecard, read somewhere below 300dpi everything is considered noise from here https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/ImproveQuality#tools--libraries. Can you recommend to improve reading from my text.jpeg based on my senario bacause after reading the link above I'm still lost at what I should do? Thank You

[ravitdx]

@imsocb

I think you took a snap with some camera and used that image.Instead scanning the image with a scanner and using it will produce better results.In the link you gave Binarisation and Rotation / Deskewing are your problems.Apart from problems mentioned in the link,It also depends on font in the image.A font which shows a clear partition between words will produce good results.

[imsocb]

@ravitdx It has to be camera images uploaded into the server unfortunately for my case while scanning is not an option. So based on what you have stated (e.g. Binarisation and Rotation/Deskewing isn't these functions built into tesseract?) Or these issues had to solve with additional software or tools installed into xampp environment to improve the reading result? If so can you recommend some of it to improve my reading result? Thank You!

[KoalaBear84]

Had the same problem. I had to also include "tesseract.exe" in the command like this:
->executable('..\tesseract-3.0.4\tesseract.exe')

It would be nice if there was some sort of error reporting or warning.

[johnico]

have same problem with wamp - got white page

[thiagoalessio]

Sorry but this is not the right place to request help, the issues on this repo are meant for reporting bugs on the library.
I'd recommend you post your questions / request for support on #tesseract-ocr-for-php on freenode IRC.

[jammyproject]

this code : exec('tesseract raj_OCR.png imagetextname'), i got text file but. on this code : (new TesseractOCR('raj_OCR.png'))->run();
i got this error :
Fatal error: Uncaught thiagoalessio\TesseractOCR\UnsuccessfulCommandException: Error! The command did not produce any output. Generated command: "tesseract" "raj_OCR.png" C:\Users\SQR PC\AppData\Local\Temp\ocr22DF.tmp Returned message: read_params_file: Can't open PC\AppData\Local\Temp\ocr22DF.tmp Error, could not create TXT output file: Permission denied in C:\xampp\htdocs\rnd_program\composer\vendor\thiagoalessio\tesseract_ocr\src\FriendlyErrors.php:63 Stack trace: #0 C:\xampp\htdocs\rnd_program\composer\vendor\thiagoalessio\tesseract_ocr\src\TesseractOCR.php(24): thiagoalessio\TesseractOCR\FriendlyErrors::checkCommandExecution(Object(thiagoalessio\TesseractOCR\Command), Array) #1 C:\xampp\htdocs\rnd_program\test.php(18): thiagoalessio\TesseractOCR\TesseractOCR->run() #2 {main} thrown in C:\xampp\htdocs\rnd_program\composer\vendor\thiagoalessio\tesseract_ocr\src\FriendlyErrors.php on line 63

please help me as soon as posible

[jammyproject]

hi,
i install on tesseract at this location : C:\Program Files (x86) and i set variable on environment variable also. and i install using composer and loaded file using autoload.php ,
so i got above error. please help me. is required to install in xampp also ?
please help me.

[thiagoalessio]

@jammyproject I'd like to point to you this project's Gitter: https://gitter.im/thiagoalessio/tesseract-ocr-for-php I'm sure someone there (maybe even myself) would be able to support you with your problem.