ocr using a command line tool

Question

hello folks,

I'm looking for a windows command line tool that does OCR. Specifically I'm trying to extract the number from this image: http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/6075/wantocr.png

I've tried tesseract and found it quite poor imho. Perhaps it needs settings that I'm not aware of. I've tried a few others and they too were pretty poxy. Some of the online ones were quite good but I really need it to be a command line.

I would really appreciate posts that accurately extract the number from the image in the link above.

many thanks, Fidel

p.s. I could do some very simple image processing like converting it to blank and white etc.

Answer 1

Just tried ABBYY Screen Shot reader on this image and it worked perfect. Thus ABBYY OCR can deal with it. Unfortunately they don't have command line for Windows, there is one for Linux: http://ocr4linux.com/:it:start

Also ABBYY offerst SDK (quite expensive) for Windows, it could work from C# too.

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

Aquaforest's Tiff Junction Professional (www.aquaforest.com). Intelliant OCR (www.intelliant.fr). ABBYY FineReader (Linux only CLI).