Tesseract: --psm param not working with hocr output

[smarq8]

When I try save resoult to hocr then it look like "--psm" is not taken into account.
Here is my resoult in cmd - look at "page 4", while psm is not used then resoult is empty, with --psm 6 I got better accuracy, but --psm 6 and hocr look same as in 1st case (empty page)

Platform:
Win7U x64
tesseract version:
tesseract 4.00.00alphaleptonica-1.74.1
libgif 4.1.6(?) :
libjpeg 8d (libjpeg-turbo 1.5.0) :
libpng 1.6.20 :
libtiff 4.0.6 :
zlib 1.2.8 :
libwebp 0.4.3 :
libopenjp2 2.1.0

[amitdo]

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/tessdata/configs/hocr

tessedit_create_hocr 1
tessedit_pageseg_mode 1
hocr_font_info 0

[smarq8]

So can I edit this file or its not recommended?

[amitdo]

You can create another file with your custom settings.

tesseract in.png out myhocr

Another option, without file editing:

tesseract in.png out --psm 6 -c tessedit_create_hocr=1

[smarq8]

Thanks.

[smarq8]

After some testing I found that tessedit_pageseg_mode 6 do no get same resoult as --psm 6.

[davidshumway]

Very interesting. Thanks for this question and the answers provided.

Adding the following at least gets hocr to output similar to -psm. Of course, not sure if hocr exactly matches text only -psm.

tesseract file.tif output -psm 6 -c tessedit_create_hocr=1 -c tessedit_pageseg_mode=6

[amitdo]

@zdenop, please close this issue.

[stweil]

Fixed with PR #1943.