Finding leading punctuation

[jaidedai]

Finding leading punctuation

[rkcosmos]

OCR process involves detection and recognition. In your case, it is detection part that ignore "=====" because it thinks this is not text which is quite subjective to judge even for human. To solve your problem, it may help to change parameter for detection part here

EasyOCR/easyocr/easyocr.py

Lines 19 to 24 in fdb8611

	text_threshold = 0.7
	low_text = 0.4
	link_threshold = 0.4
	canvas_size = 2560
	mag_ratio = 1.
	poly = False

[csterritt]

Thanks @rkcosmos I'll try that out.