Preserving Spaces in Tesseract

Question

I had an image file, which contain some text separated by tabs (2 spaces). But when I extract text out of this image file, I always get a single space between two columns. A sample example:

IMAGE:

col-a    col-b    col-c

Desired output:

col-a    col-b    col-c

But I am getting the following:

col-a col-b col-c

I am using pytesseract.image_to_string (Python module) convert image to text

Answer 1

Use it like this:

pytesseract.image_to_string(img, config='-c preserve_interword_spaces=1')