help with pytesseract.image_to_string(savedImage, config='--psm 11')iamge to string

[korenron]

i didn;t understand something in the

pytesseract.image_to_string(savedImage, config='--psm 11')

in the config
what does

config='--psm 11'

mean?

I thought that its the max numbers it will "read"

but when I take a simple image with 4 numbers(1 2 3 4 )
when psm 5
I get N
when psm 9
I get Z
4,6-8,11-13 I get the numners
1 2 3 4
psm 14 - I get error no such file


what did I missing?



*** found this
maybe this will help someone

Page segmentation modes:
0 Orientation and script detection (OSD) only.
1 Automatic page segmentation with OSD.
2 Automatic page segmentation, but no OSD, or OCR.
3 Fully automatic page segmentation, but no OSD. (Default)
4 Assume a single column of text of variable sizes.
5 Assume a single uniform block of vertically aligned text.
6 Assume a single uniform block of text.
7 Treat the image as a single text line.
8 Treat the image as a single word.
9 Treat the image as a single word in a circle.
10 Treat the image as a single character.
11 Sparse text. Find as much text as possible in no particular order.
12 Sparse text with OSD.
13 Raw line. Treat the image as a single text line,
bypassing hacks that are Tesseract-specific.
Thanks,