I'd like to convert document images to XML and also export the location where a certain word has been found within a page. In order to access bounding box information, tesseract's layout analysis can be used:
tess.SetImage(...);
tess.SetPageSegMode( tesseract::PSM_AUTO_OSD);
tesseract::PageIterator* it = tess.AnalyseLayout();
while(it->Next(tesseract::RIL_WORD)
{
int top, bottom, left, right;
it->BoundingBox(tesseract::RIL_WORD, &left, &top, &right, &bottom);
}
At that point, however, I don't know the actual content of a bounding box and by executing the following code, OCR is performed on the current image, so text
contains the whole text of a page.
tess.Recognize(0);
std::string text = tess.GetUTF8Text();
Currently I temporarily store all bounding boxes in a vector
. For each box I cut out a subimage from the original one and perform OCR for each bounding box. Basically this works, but when I compare the results to the Tesseract Command Line Tool, far more OCR errors occur.
Therefore I'd like to know how to I can iterate through the OCR result word by word and get the corresponding bounding box.
tess.Recognize(0);
PAGE_RES_IT resultIter(page_res_);
for (resultIter.start_page(false); resultIter.block() != NULL; resultIter.forward())
{
WERD_RES* wordResult = resultIter.word();
WERD_CHOICE* word = wordResult->best_choice;
TBOX& box = wordResult->word->bounding_box();
}