[FIXED] Strange symbol in tesseract output

Issue

I'd like to know why this symbol appears in the output and how I can remove it.

All images I use have the same behavior.

I can't get rid it.

I need the value extracted from the image without that symbol because I'll use it later in another place.

script.py

import pytesseract as ocr
from PIL import Image

custom_config = r'--psm 3'
phrase = ocr.image_to_string(Image.open('image.jpg'), config=custom_config)
print(phrase)

Using pytesseract

Using tesseract

image.jpg

Solution

Those are form feed (FF, \u000C) characters, used by Tesseract to delimit pages of OCRed text. You can trim the output string before printing to the console.

Answered By - nguyenq