Tesseract - ambiguity in space and tab
ocr, tesseract
Solution
Tesseract compresses consecutive spaces into one. You would need to modify `baseapi.cpp` to preserve the spaces. The code change can be found in the following posts:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/tesseract-ocr/spaces/tesseract-ocr/lGBQiryHcrY/wy5a-L9O3i4J
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/tesseract-ocr/spaces/tesseract-ocr/9nzPrBZ3118/b3W5GtsFPo0J
Problem
I had a tiff file, which contain some text separated by tabs (4 spaces). But when I extract text out of this tiff image file, i always get a single space between two columns. A sample example: ``` TIFF IMAGE: col-a col-b col-c desired output: col-a col-b col-c but I am getting the following: col-a col-b col-c ``` I tried this with multiple images of same format, but the result is always the same. How do I fix this issue ? Can I train tesseract to understand this?