Tesseract and tiff format - spp not in set {1,3}

Question

While trying to run this command:

tesseract bond111.tif bond111 batch.nochop makebox

I get the next error

Error in pixReadFromT         


        

Answer 1

Thanks for your post ZakW, you pointed me to the right direction. Anyhow i also needed to set '-depth 8'. Quality was not good enough for OCR, whatever I tried.

What worked for me is this solution:

ghostscript -o document.tiff -sDEVICE=tiffgray -r720x720 -g6120x7920 -sCompression=lzw document.pdf
tesseract document.tiff document -l deu
vim document.txt

This way I got perfect text with Umlauts in german.