JP OCR Language not working!

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There is no specific “OCR Tool”

The ChatGPT AI has either:

  • built-in computer vision;
  • a Python environment where it can execute scripts it writes.

I assume the latter might be employed by the language you are using, and we can confirm the issue, while English is successful. Ultimately:

The OCR extraction for the English text image was successful using pytesseract, and the text was correctly identified as:

Text

Summary of Findings:

  1. Python Environment:

    • Python version: 3.11.8.
    • Platform: Linux-4.4.0-x86_64-with-glibc2.36.

  2. pytesseract version:

    • pytesseract version: 5.3.0 (Tesseract leptonica-1.82.0).

  3. OCR on English Text:

    • Successful, indicating that the current environment supports basic OCR for English text.

Root Cause for Japanese OCR Issues:

  • The problem seems specific to Japanese language OCR (lang="jpn"), which may point to one of the following:
    • Missing Language Data: The Japanese language pack might not be installed in the Tesseract setup.
    • Font Rendering Issues: Japanese text might have been hard to recognize due to font rendering or image quality.

Next Steps:

  • Install Japanese Language Pack: Ensure that the Japanese language data for Tesseract (jpn.traineddata) is available.

(ChatGPT platform is currently near-nonfunctional, not completing responses and even loading slow in general. With OCR attempts without specifying language parameter, the text was garbled nonsense).

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