Having trouble with simple OCR

[chaudhryfaisal]

Current Behavior

!tesseract score.jpg test --oem 1 -l eng --psm 11; cat test.txt

Yields to

Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine v4.1.1 with Leptonica
Warning: Invalid resolution 0 dpi. Using 70 instead.
Estimating resolution as 335
LAJOVIC

0 ty

Beat)

0

Expected Behavior

Proper prediction

LAJOVIC...0 0
CRESSY 0 15

Suggested Fix

No response

tesseract -v

tesseract 4.1.1
leptonica-1.79.0
libgif 5.1.4 : libjpeg 8d (libjpeg-turbo 2.0.3) : libpng 1.6.37 : libtiff 4.1.0 : zlib 1.2.11 : libwebp 0.6.1 : libopenjp2 2.3.1
Found AVX2
Found AVX
Found FMA
Found SSE
Found libarchive 3.4.0 zlib/1.2.11 liblzma/5.2.4 bz2lib/1.0.8 liblz4/1.9.2 libzstd/1.4.4

Operating System

Ubuntu 20.04 Focal

Other Operating System

NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="20.04.5 LTS (Focal Fossa)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS"
VERSION_ID="20.04"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=focal
UBUNTU_CODENAME=focal

uname -a

Linux 8a4ef56ba3d1 5.15.107+ #1 SMP Sat Apr 29 09:15:28 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Compiler

No response

CPU

No response

Virtualization / Containers

No response

Other Information

[naourass]

You need to preprocess the image for the ocr to work properly, especially binarizing/thresholding the image:
https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/ImproveQuality.html#binarisation