How to read multipage TIF file

[funk03]

I have a TIF file that is multiple pages. The function Pix.LoadFromFile(filename) appears to be only loading the first page.
Is there a way to load all the pages?
I would like to be able to read the entire document at once.

Thanks

[charlesw]

Yes, reading multipage tiffs is supported by Leptonica, the imaging library used by Tesseract, however I haven't yet implemented support for this in the c# wrapper. The relevant function is `pixaReadMultipageTiffwhich returns aPixA`` structure. To implement this you'd need to do the following:

• Add support for PixA (PixArray) and the relevant Load and ideally save functions.
• Update your app to iterate through each Pix in the PixA instance and OCR it separately (tesseract's engine can only OCR one page at a time).

[benwalker14]

This is something I could use as well. Is there any timetable on the implementation of reading multi-page tiffs?

[charlesw]

Sorry not right now, I might be able to find some time to look into this in a couple weeks but its not a priority for me at the moment.

[charlesw]

FYI, thanks to amferguson we will now support multi-page tiffs in the upcoming 1.1 release (tesseract 3.03).

[yoshidahiro]

Is there any documentation or code samples to do a multipage tiff? I checked the existing code samples and there is nothing mentioned there. I could really use some guidance.

[Sicos1977]

I once did make an engine to detect the orientation of a scanned image with the help of Tesseract. In the time I programmed it there was no multipage tiff suport so I wrote some handy TIFF utilities... maybe that they are helpful to you. You can find them over here -->

https://github.com/Sicos1977/PageOrientationEngine/blob/master/PageOrientationEngine/Helpers/TiffUtils.cs

[charlesw]

You'll want to use PixArray.LoadMultiPageTiffFromFile and then iterate and
process each pix (page) separately.

If you want feel free to create a wiki article on this (I think everyone
has access to modify the wiki).

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Kees notifications@github.com wrote:

I once did make an engine to detect the orientation of a scanned image
with the help of Tesseract. In the time I programmed it there was no
multipage tiff suport so I wrote some handy TIFF utilities... maybe that
they are helpful to you. You can find them over here -->

https://github.com/Sicos1977/PageOrientationEngine/blob/master/PageOrientationEngine/Helpers/TiffUtils.cs

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[RacerEvan55]

Here is a simple implementation to ocr a multipage tiff. Id add it to the wiki but looks like I cant create a page.
Hopefully this helps someone doing a search here in the issues section.
btw, is there any way to load a multipage tiff from a byte array? (like there is load a single page from byte array) Id rather not have to write out the tiff to the filesystem every time and go and clean it up after its done (it starts as a pdf)

`
StringBuilder OCRedText = new StringBuilder();

        using (TesseractEngine engine = new TesseractEngine(@"./tessdata", "eng", EngineMode.Default))
        {
            using (PixArray pages = PixArray.LoadMultiPageTiffFromFile(filePath))
            {
                foreach (Pix p in pages)
                {
                    using (Tesseract.Page page = engine.Process(p))
                    {
                        string text = page.GetText();
                        OCRedText.Append(text);
                    }
                }
            }
            return OCRedText.ToString();
        }

`

[charlesw]

Thanks for the sample and no there isn't a way to load a PixArray from an
in memory byte array currently.

On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, 17:51 RacerEvan55, notifications@github.com wrote:

Here is a simple implementation to ocr a multipage tiff. Id add it to the
wiki but looks like I cant create a page.
Hopefully this helps someone doing a search here in the issues section.
btw, is there any way to load a multipage tiff from a byte array? (like
there is load a single page from byte array) Id rather not have to write
out the tiff to the filesystem every time and go and clean it up after its
done (it starts as a pdf)

`
StringBuilder OCRedText = new StringBuilder();

    using (TesseractEngine engine = new TesseractEngine(@"./tessdata", "eng", EngineMode.Default))
    {
        using (PixArray pages = PixArray.LoadMultiPageTiffFromFile(filePath))
        {
            foreach (Pix p in pages)
            {
                using (Tesseract.Page page = engine.Process(p))
                {
                    string text = page.GetText();
                    OCRedText.Append(text);
                }
            }
        }`

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[HK516]

Charles, from the post it is clear that, if we have a multipage tiff file, we can use engine.Process() for processing each page by looping through the PixArray.

Is it possible wherein a multipage tiff file can be completely processed in a single attempt, in any of the newer versions of Tesseract ?? I am using Tesseract 3.0.2.0 and could only see the engine.Process() method has a few overloads which accepts Bitmap or a Pix etc..

[charlesw]

@HK516 No you'll still need to process each page piecemill wise as detailed above. There haven't been any changes to the wrapper or tesseract underneath to allow processing in one lot.