31.03.2018 · 6. This answer is not useful. Show activity on this post. Pytesseract uses shlex to separate config arguments. The escape character for shlex is \, if you want to insert quotes in the shlex.split () function you must escape it with \. If you want ' only in the whitelist: tesseract_config = "-c tessedit_char_whitelist=blahblah\\'") If you want ...
30.04.2017 · You can accomplish that with the below line. Or you can setup the config file for tesseract to do the same thing Limit characters tesseract is looking for pytesseract.image_to_string (question_img, config="-c tessedit_char_whitelist=0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz -psm 6")
To use whitelist in a config file or using the -c tessedit_char_whitelist=... command-line switch, in the newest 4.0 version you will have to set OCR Engine ...
If you want to have single character recognition, set psm = 10 . And if your text consists of numbers only, you can set tessedit_char_whitelist=0123456789 .
12.03.2020 · Since it works with --oem 0, I suspect there is a change to how blobs are classified as whitespace vs. character in --oem 1, and somehow the whitelist interacts with that decision tree. Changing that tree so that the tessedit_char_whitelist flag does not affect the tree should correct the issue test-out-5_00.txt test-out-5_00-2.txt
19.03.2020 · Solution 2: Use an old Tesseract version (Legacy mode) A dirty workaround is to make use of the implemented Legacy mode to use some old Tesseract functions in Tesseract 4.0. You have to add the --oem 0 flag for this. Then it is possible to call the tessedit_char_whitelist option to filter only numbers: -c tessedit_char_whitelist=0123456789.
06.09.2021 · From there, if the --whitelist command line argument has at least one character that we wish to only allow for OCR, it is appended to -c tessedit_char_whitelist= as …
08.03.2017 · Same problem for me with 4.00alpha, I tried to set tessedit_char_whitelist by using: cli with option -c tessedit_char_whitelist=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz; cli with config file; tesserocr python module; But I keep getting non letter results. I can provide Dockerfile + python script + images if needed