chinese character recognition using Tesseract OCR

I have been using Tesseract 3.0.2 OCR SDK for image text extraction. But if I use chinese text images and pass through OCR then Tesseract doesn't provide me the chinese characters instead of that I am getting numeric and english characters. But I need chinese characters as displayed in the image I am using.

How can I achieve this? Is there any way I can obtain chinese characters rather then any other characters?

Any help is appreciable.

9 down vote accepted

You need to download chinese trained data (it will be a file like chi_sim.traineddata) and add it to yourtessdata folder. To download the file https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/downloads/detail?name=chi_sim.traineddata.gz and use like this Tesseract* tesseract= [[Tesseract alloc] initWithDataPath:@"tessdata" language:@"chi_sim"]; if you have any problem you can download my experiment with tessaract (with chinese language support) from https://github.com/aryansbtloe/ExperimentWithTesseract.git I have tested this one...Hope you will find this useful. share | improve this answer edited Sep 28 '13 at 17:08 Nishant Tyagi 5,725 2 12 34 answered  May 16 '13 at 8:43 Alok Singh 527 2 10

1   Thanks it works :-) –   Nishant Tyagi  May 16 '13 at 9:11 Alok, I tried your sample and it works well on about half of simplified Chinese characters I tried. For the rest it may either recognize a compound character as several different characters each representing a component in the compound character, or totally wrong. Do you know of any method to improve the accuracy of recognition? –   CodePlumber  Jun 14 at 22:11

9 down vote accepted

You need to download chinese trained data (it will be a file like chi_sim.traineddata) and add it to yourtessdata folder. To download the file https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/downloads/detail?name=chi_sim.traineddata.gz and use like this Tesseract* tesseract= [[Tesseract alloc] initWithDataPath:@"tessdata" language:@"chi_sim"]; if you have any problem you can download my experiment with tessaract (with chinese language support) from https://github.com/aryansbtloe/ExperimentWithTesseract.git I have tested this one...Hope you will find this useful. share | improve this answer edited Sep 28 '13 at 17:08 Nishant Tyagi 5,725 2 12 34 answered  May 16 '13 at 8:43 Alok Singh 527 2 10

1   Thanks it works :-) –   Nishant Tyagi  May 16 '13 at 9:11 Alok, I tried your sample and it works well on about half of simplified Chinese characters I tried. For the rest it may either recognize a compound character as several different characters each representing a component in the compound character, or totally wrong. Do you know of any method to improve the accuracy of recognition? –   CodePlumber  Jun 14 at 22:11