Tesseract can't read the full image about tesseract.js HOT 3 CLOSED

It looks like this is an issue with Tesseract rather than any code specific to Tesseract.js or your implementation.

Tesseract uses a binarization algorithm provided by the Leptonica library by default (there are some configuration options related to binarization that you can look up in the Tesseract repo/documentation). This example shows how to access the intermediate images used by Tesseract. For your image, the binarization algorithm performs extremely poorly with the text being almost entirely erased--I've attached the binarized image.

I do not have a strong understanding of the Leptonica binarization algorithm bused by default, but the fact that the text is very light gray compared to some of the darker blacks found in the image appears to be what is tripping it up. To demonstrate, removed the image, and the text no longer disappears during the binarization step.

If you use the version with the image removed, Tesseract will spit out some text. I do not expect it to be accurate--I can hardly make out the words in the input image personally, so do not expect Tesseract to be able to recognize it accurately.

One final small thing--the worker.load function can be removed. That was necessary in old versions but does not do anything in v4 and above.

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Thank you for your well explained answer. That helped me a lot.

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No problem. Closing the issue given this is not a bug with Tesseract.js.

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