Recognize japanese symbols in two screenshots

[superbonaci]

Current Behavior

Recognize the symbols.

Expected Behavior

Recognize the symbols in these two screenshots.
Original pictures from Dragon Ball episode 1:

After some perspective correction (maybe helps?):

Suggested Fix

Recognize the symbols.

tesseract -v

tesseract 5.3.2
leptonica-1.82.0
libgif 5.2.1 : libjpeg 8d (libjpeg-turbo 2.1.5.1) : libpng 1.6.40 : libtiff 4.5.1 : zlib 1.2.11 : libwebp 1.3.1 : libopenjp2 2.5.0
Found NEON
Found libarchive 3.6.2 zlib/1.2.11 liblzma/5.4.1 bz2lib/1.0.8 liblz4/1.9.4 libzstd/1.5.4
Found libcurl/7.88.1 SecureTransport (LibreSSL/3.3.6) zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.51.0

Operating System

macOS 13 Ventura

Other Operating System

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uname -a

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Compiler

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CPU

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Virtualization / Containers

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Other Information

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[amitdo]

Tesseract's layout analysis was designed to deal with simple layouts of books, magazines, newspapers and documents.

For any image that Tesseract completely fails to recognize, or fails to recognize some areas in the image, it is recommended to use a different tool to clean the image for Tesseract and make it easier for Tesseract to recognize text.

https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/ImproveQuality.html

In your case, you should give Tesseract just the letters without the frame around them.

[superbonaci]

No result either with the improved picture:

% tesseract -l jpn result.png result.txt
Empty page!!
Empty page!!
% tesseract -l script/Japanese result.png result.txt
Empty page!!
Empty page!!

[amitdo]

Did you try with different psm values?

[superbonaci]

Still no luck, but Google Lens finds it fine:
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%80%92%E7%A6%8F