[Gimp-user] extract text in a rectangle from a jpg file

[Jernej Simončič]

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 16:08:31 +0000 (UTC), powah wrote:

> My image is 640 x 512 pixels & X Y resolution are both 300 pixels/in.
> How to improve the image so that the OCR programs will recognize the text better?
> I try the "Scale Image" menu with different values of pixels & X Y resolutions
> (e.g. 1920 x 1536 pixels & X Y resolution are both 1200 pixels/in) but does not
> seem to improve the result.

640x512 seems pretty small for something to OCR out. What kind of image is
it?

Note that resizing will not have any positive effect on text recognition.

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