page-seg-modes.txt

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PSM_OSD_ONLY 	
Orientation and script detection only.

PSM_AUTO_OSD 	
Automatic page segmentation with orientation and script detection. (OSD)

PSM_AUTO_ONLY 	
Automatic page segmentation, but no OSD, or OCR.

PSM_AUTO 	
Fully automatic page segmentation, but no OSD.

PSM_SINGLE_COLUMN 	
Assume a single column of text of variable sizes.

PSM_SINGLE_BLOCK_VERT_TEXT 	
Assume a single uniform block of vertically aligned text.

PSM_SINGLE_BLOCK 	
Assume a single uniform block of text. (Default.)

PSM_SINGLE_LINE 	
Treat the image as a single text line.

PSM_SINGLE_WORD 	
Treat the image as a single word.

PSM_CIRCLE_WORD 	
Treat the image as a single word in a circle.

PSM_SINGLE_CHAR 	
Treat the image as a single character.

PSM_SPARSE_TEXT 	
Find as much text as possible in no particular order.

PSM_SPARSE_TEXT_OSD 	
Sparse text with orientation and script det.

PSM_RAW_LINE 	
Treat the image as a single text line, bypassing hacks that are Tesseract-specific.