Orientation and WritingDirection

Thanks for all you do. I have successfully created a batch OCR application using your wrapper. However, I occasionally run into an image where the text does not read from left-to-right. I have tried scouring the web to find the best method for determining page/text orientation. These methods are not demonstrated in the sample applications.

Here is my current page level code…

                using (TesseractEngine engine = new TesseractEngine(System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("TESSERACT_PREFIX"), "eng", EngineMode.Default))
                {
                    Pix img = Pix.LoadFromFile(MyImgFilePath);
                    Page page = engine.Process(img);
                    img.Deskew();
                    //GetPageOrientation here
                    string text = page.GetText();
                    page.Dispose();
                    img.Dispose();
                    text = text.Replace("\n", "\r\n");
                    return text;
                }

How would I “AutoRotate” to get the correct text? I have attached an image for testing.

[charlesw]

After a little light reading it looks like tesseract the default page segmentation option doesn’t support Orientation detection by default you’ll need to change it to PageSegMode.AutoOsd and include the Osd language files. However the ones for 3.02 don’t seem to be on google code at the moment however the ones provided for ubuntu should work as these are only data files (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tesseract-osd/3.02-2).

Let me know if it works.

[montaghem2]

Hi I give this Exception Error when I use var properties = iter.GetProperties();

Exception thrown: ‘System.AccessViolationException’ in InteropRuntimeImplementer.TessApiSignaturesInstance An unhandled exception of type ‘System.AccessViolationException’ occurred in InteropRuntimeImplementer.TessApiSignaturesInstance Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.

Please help me