Re : Re: OCR

[MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr>]

Oh indeed, this case is very complex. Another possible thing is to train tesseract for this kind fo situations, but it is a heavy process indeed.

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----- Joe <joe@jretrading.com> a écrit :
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 08:22:37 +1000
> "Stephen Grant Brown" <steve.brown_nbn@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > What is the best OCR package to use to scan the receipts given
> > immediately after making a purchase? Yours Sincerely
> 
> If you mean general retail receipts, are you sure this is a practical
> proposition?
> 
> I have to look closely at various receipts I get in order to decipher
> dates and prices, often with the printed characters broken, and
> sometimes made with a dodgy printer.
> 
> I keep a web-accessible database of 'important' receipts, but I just
> scan them to greyscale PNG and manually type in the goods, date,
> supplier and category. Even then, I sometimes have to tweak the scan
> parameters to get a (human-)legible result.
> 
> I have seen a purpose-made business card scanner, which produced what I
> thought were amazing results about ten years ago, particularly given the
> infinite layout possibilities of cards. But it was seeing brand-new
> cards, with high quality commercial printing, not some wrinkled scrap
> of paper from an old thermal dot matrix printer, with the
> 'time-for-a-new-roll' red stripe down the middle.
> 
> Best of luck.
> 
> -- 
> Joe
>