Scoreboard digit recognition using OpenCV

Question

I am trying to extract numbers from a typical scoreboard that you would find at a high school gym. I have each number in a digital \"alarm clock\" font and have managed to persp

Answer 1

If you are trying text recognition with Tesseract, try passing not one digit, but a number of duplicated digits, sometimes it could produce better results, here's the example. However, if you're planning a business software, you may want to have a look at a commercial OCR SDK. For example, try ABBYY FineReader Engine. It's not affordable for free to use applications, but when it comes to business, it can a good value to your product. As far as i know, ABBYY provides the best OCR quality, for example check out http://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2010-06/15-linux_ocr_software_comparison