[TIKA-2167] Image processing causes OCR to fail

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.14
• Fix Version/s: 1.15, 2.0.0
• Component/s: ocr
• Labels: convert image ocr tiff

Environment

Mac OS X 10.11.6; Java 1.8.0_45; tesseract 3.04.01; ImageMagick 6.9.6-2

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Matthew Caruana Galizia
• Created: 06/Nov/16 11:50
• Updated: 12/Apr/21 13:00
• Resolved: 11/Jan/17 16:10

Description

Image processing before OCR is enabled by default in the OCR configuration properties file. Unless this is disabled, running Tika on a simple TIFF image (attached) with two clear words fails. When image processing is disabled, it succeeds.