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cool! Thanks. The textcleaner was 100% superb without any finetuning. Best results so far. I've tried your autolevel script, but that did not help much.
Now i just need to find hosting where that script runs quicker than 20 seconds

Thanks for help!

Why do you have -alpha set enabled? It only turns on a perfectly opaque alpha channel, which I would think would not be good for your tesseract.


I wanted to make it 100% like the one on my mac


Did you try my command?

Try upgrading your IM as you are about 100 versions old.


I've tried ...

Thanks for reply,

Version: ImageMagick 6.6.2-6 2011-03-16 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Its on Ubuntu 11.04

Unfortunately if i omit the -auto-gamma tesseract produces only garbage

Hi all,

what i'm basically trying to achieve is convert jpg file to tiff so that it could be parsed with tesseract.

The problem - when i convert it by using convert command line utility, tesseract output contains a lot of garbage. But if i process the same image on Mac with Preview (simply auto ...