Ground truth: spaces before and after text?

[jbarth-ubhd]

I've created *.exp0.gt.txt as a base for manual ground truth creation using Shreeshrii's shell script and the files contain a space before and after the text (no newlines etc). Example:

01127778-001.exp0.gt.txt: " Verfahrenstechnik / -70 B 2813 "
01127778-002.exp0.gt.txt: " Verfahrenstechnik, Forschung und Lehre, (Zsgest. Ue "
01127778-003.exp0.gt.txt: " verf. von Kurt Schiefer und Kurt Boekmer,) "
01127778-004.exp0.gt.txt: " Düsseldorf: Verfahrenstechnische Ges, im Verein Deut- ! "
01127778-005.exp0.gt.txt: " scher Ingenieure 1967. 185 S, 8° "
01127778-006.exp0.gt.txt: " Frühere Ausg. 3. u.d.T.: Verfahrenstechnik im In- und "
01127778-007.exp0.gt.txt: " Ausland. "

... but The-Hallucination-Effect states »Example 2: Your training text frequently includes a Space at the beginning of your sentences or at the end. Might result in slow training, non-convergence & even model corruption.«

My Question: Spaces or not?

The 1 line images are very tight, no blank space before/after; example:

[jbarth-ubhd]

ok, ocrd-testset.zip *.gt.txt contain no spaces before/after, but \n

[vishakraj25]

ok, ocrd-testset.zip *.gt.txt contain no spaces before/after, but \n

@jbarth-ubhd, I see there is no space or no new line at the end of the *.gt.txt

[jbarth-ubhd]

I'll see newlines (4th line below):

jb@xxx:~/Downloads/ocrd-testset> cat *.gt.txt|od -c|head
0000000   i   c   h       d   e   n   k   e   .       A   b   e   r    
0000020   w   a   s       d   i   e     305 277   e   l   i   g   e    
0000040   F   r   a   u       G   e   h   e   i   m   r 303 244   t   h
0000060   i   n  \n 342 200 236   D   a   s       k   a   n   n       i
0000100   c   h       n   i   c   h   t   ,       c   '   e   s   t    

[stweil]

Ground truth line text must not have spaces before or after the text. It may end with a linefeed (which gets added automatically by many editors).

[jbarth-ubhd]

Just tried it again with https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesstrain/issues/7 and https://github.com/ocropus/hocr-tools/blob/master/hocr-extract-images , the generated .exp0.gt.txt files contain spaces before & after:

308-119.exp0.gt.txt: " | == zz NN NN ANNE NZZ SE anli : "
308-120.exp0.gt.txt: " <C3><BC>ber 1 BONS DD DD SS EN U = NS utfer]pras "
308-121.exp0.gt.txt: " Datei ihrem unfeligen zZ <E2><80><94> SS AN . LEE KA 5 XS Ode bot. "
308-122.exp0.gt.txt: " N ein SH 7 DD SS 7 ea san Zn EFF LEE Z<E2><80><94>_-- BEN UNE x "

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[jbarth-ubhd]

bump

[stweil]

Just tried it again with #7 and https://github.com/ocropus/hocr-tools/blob/master/hocr-extract-images , the generated .exp0.gt.txt files contain spaces before & after

Then I assume that the original data (hOCR) already contains such spaces. Do you have a link to an example?

[jbarth-ubhd]

The .hocr does not contain spaces: <span ...>abcdefg</span>, but the .exp0.gt.txt does so.

See https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglitData/v/tesstrain-issue-335.zip for a complete test environment; main script is Shreeshrii-script.

[jbollacke]

The spaces before and after the line occur, if your hocr file is indented.

hocr-extract-images uses regex to replace one (or more) whitespace characters with one space. see line 20

i am not sure if they had indentation in mind, though.