How to recognize slash between two numbers on my images with Tesseract?

Question

I have some images with two numbers separated by / very close to them. Tesseract doesn't recognize that dash at all, or recognizes it as 1 in most of them (For few images it works).

My Tesseract code:

pytesseract.image_to_string(img,lang='eng',config='--psm 7 --oem 3 -c tessedit_char_whitelist=/0123456789').strip()

I've tried with other psm and oem configs. I've been playing with the images a lot, eg with cv2.threshold , cv2.cvtColor , resizing.

EDIT:

After

img = cv2.threshold(img, 200, 255, cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV)[1]` <br>
img = cv2.resize(img,(0,0), fx=1.5, fy=1.5)`

most of the images return good values, but some of them add 5 in random place (images after conversion):

and few cases still don't recognize the slash.

Answer 1

Grayscaling, even more enlarging, and a different threshold did the job on my machine:

import cv2
import pytesseract


def extract_stats(img_filepath):
    img = cv2.imread(img_filepath, cv2.IMREAD_GRAYSCALE)
    img = cv2.resize(img, (0, 0), None, 4.0, 4.0)
    img = cv2.threshold(img, 160, 255, cv2.THRESH_BINARY)[1]
    config = '--psm 6 -c tessedit_char_whitelist="0123456789/"'
    text = pytesseract.image_to_string(img, config=config)
    print(text.replace('\n', '').replace('\f', ''))


for filepath in ['Bzh3j.png', 't9gAh.png', 'BBy2P.png']:
    extract_stats(filepath)
# 4319/6149
# 943/7114
# 103/6149

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System information
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Platform:      Windows-10-10.0.19042-SP0
Python:        3.9.6
PyCharm:       2021.2
OpenCV:        4.5.3
pytesseract:   5.0.0-alpha.20201127
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Answer 2

With tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20210401 and the tessdata_best I got correct result with this code:

import cv2
import numpy as np
import pytesseract
from IPython.display import display
from PIL import Image

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'bin\\tesseract.exe'
tessdata = "tessdata"

img = cv2.imread('t9gAh.png', cv2.IMREAD_GRAYSCALE)
img = cv2.resize(img,(0,0), fx=3.0, fy=3.0)
bin_inverted = ~cv2.threshold(img, 0, 255, cv2.THRESH_BINARY + cv2.THRESH_OTSU)[1]
test = pytesseract.image_to_string(bin_inverted, config=f'--psm 6 --tessdata-dir "{tessdata}"')
print(text.replace('\n\f'', ''))