Image to text recognition using Tesseract-OCR is better when Image is preprocessed manually using Gimp than my Python Code

Question

I am trying to write code in Python for the manual Image preprocessing and recognition using Tesseract-OCR.

Manual process:
For manually recogn

Answer 1

If the output is only minimally deviating from your expected output (i.e. extra '," etc. as suggested in your comments) try limiting character recognition to the character set you expect (e.g. alphanumeric).