What is wrong with Tesseract ?

[james tate]

On 04/26/2011 03:00 PM, james tate wrote:
> F14
>
> I saved a text letter with gimp or xsane as a tif file and used
> tesseract to covert it to txt,
>
> Run this command to convert;
>
> tesseract out.tif out.txt
>
> And I got this output, what gives ?
>
>
> (9se91d ‘.l9AO)
> _[T`l:].I9A&iO 1SOLU;S‘EO!l9UIV_ 30 11ed'Bu19q sg '1s9q
> 9L11"_s1g9u9q_19qw9wT}1N 1no7§_11n30
> ‘Xa/uns .|9qwaW7§.|o°V}1N'MA\M 3u111s1A Aq 9u11u0 d1L1s19qLu9Lu 100/{
> 9p1z13dn
> pun A9/uns mol( 9191dLu0o O1 S1 u011d0 19L110uV 'Aep019d019Au9
> pglad-93121s0d p9s010u9 9L11 ug
> 1u9u1/(ed 1n0/{ LII!/¥\ A9/uns 9111 u1n191 ‘u9ql '/(9/uns ,IHOK uo xoq
> SEL; 9111>109L10 1sn[
> ‘S€l1[ABS 11au0111ppe 9/\19091 pun
> 193uo1 d1qs19qLu9Lu mo/K PUQIXQ ‘10 330 gg 103 SIQQUSQ 12913 9Lues SLI)
> pun QUIZBBBIU 12913 QUIES
> 911130 199/{ IBUOWPPR ue 193 11‘n0/(»93um19 111m 3u1111 2 10N 'SQIQABS
> gg 2 IB d1L1s19qu19Lu mo/(
> PUQIXQ uno n0A ‘sfilap 05 1x9u 9L11 103 ‘puv '1e91( 19d ggg /{11v1u10u
> S1 d1L1s19q1u91/\1 VHN
> 'Ogg 1u0 103 1L1s19qu191/\1 V}1N 1n0 01,1129 9 ppn O1 11un1_10 0 [2109 s
> QA 12 no 9/x1 01
> 9>111 P11 ‘KGAJUS 19qLu91/\1 1211u9pgu0Q 1n0K 919[dLUO3 01 911111 9L11
> 3u1>1v1 103 n0K>1ueL11 0 113
> iMOU)[ 9m 191 pun /(9/uns 19qu191,\1 IBQUQPQUOQ mol( Q19[dU.lO0 9sra91(1
> ,;s19u11ed VHN 111015 s19_110 91qnn1nA 9/09091 01 9>111 no/{ p1n0 M
> LS9)1B1Sd99MS
> 1n0 191u9 O1 93111 no/( p1n0M [,SJ9119[-9 9913 SLVHN 01 9q110sqns 01
> 91111 n0A p1noM
> ‘1noqe 910111 u11a91 O1 91111 pgnol( SIQQUSQ
> 9s9L11 30 119111/A 9u1 1191 11‘n0&  ‘A9A1ng 19qLu91,\1 IEIIIISPHUOD 1n0A
> gU!l9[dI.LIO0 Ag 's191191sM9u
> 9913 pun S19330 \B[39dS ‘s1g9u9q mau 30 su9zop QAEQDSJ Ol p91111u9 919
> noA ‘19q1u9Lu e sv
> '1{'2P()19I1I O11[ u1n191 pun K9/uns 19qu191,\1 IBQIUQPQUOQ
> p9s019u9 9111 919[dll109 O1 IUQUIOIII 12 9>1n1 9S‘l29[d 01 n0A gLI§)[SB
> Lu‘1 ‘91q1ss0d sn 3u1p19m91 se
> 99U9!J9dX9 d111s19qLu9Lu V351 mol( 9312111 sn d19L1 Ol ‘1s9nb91 [B}99dS
> 2 9AEL[ OSI? 1
> 'A119q11 u1e:>119LuV O1 1u9Lu11Luw09&1eu1p101a11x9 mol( 30 s10qLu/(S se
> 1(1pno1d 1e99p 1n0/{
> A1a1ds1p pun pmo 1n0&  M129 9s291¢1 ')[0l'LI1 10 120 mol( 103 11a99p
> [EIOQO pun 13120 d1L1s19qu191u m9u
> 1n0A 3u1pn1ou1 ‘S1§3U9C[ d1L1s19qLu9Lu VHN mo/{ 30 M93 12 1sn[911a
> 191191 S!L[1 q11m p9s01oug
> ‘suue 1'e9q pun d99>1 01 111311 IUSUIPUQLIIV pu099g 1n0 pu939p 01 9111211
> 3u103u0 1n0 U1 d1L1s19pe911n0/K 103 111191213 912 9m pun ‘LU'291ll'\O uo
> no/{ 9/uaq Ol p910u0L1 912 9 M
> 'VXN OJ,1I19lI,I1[l1II1I03 mol( 103 noi(>1u2L11 O11LI'9M 1 ‘SJSQLUQLII
> /001193 1n0 30 31m19q u()
> ‘19qw91/\1 V}1N M0119 :1 11e9(1
> 9.u91(1e'1 aufielm
> Juapywd .9191 .mg/nysxq nga# :ago
> 0ao'V}11\1~/A/1\/x\
> o€ozz VINIUHIA ‘xv1u1v:1
> (IVOH 1'u1,\1 SEYIJVAA 051 1 1
> v:>mawV 10 Nouvmossv 311111 1vN01.v.vN
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This is the exact command i typed in;

$ tesseract Untitled.tif Untitled
Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine with LibTiff