RTesseract not showing the text of images in rails - ruby-on-rails

I install RTesseract in my application but the issue I face is that after reading any image it just give '/f' in output
image = RTesseract.new('ya.png', lang: 'eng')
image.to_s
Output : "\f"
How can I fix this issue?

If the output is just "\f", that means that tesseract didn't detect any words in the image.

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"No such file or directory" error on cropped ImageMagick image

I have a function in a DelayedJobs-run background process on my Rails app that receives Base64 image blobs, resizes and crops them, and then saves them:
image64 = Base64.decode64(screenshot)
image = MiniMagick::Image.read(image64)
image.resize "#{image.width * 0.5}x#{image.height * 0.5}"
image.crop("#{image.width}x250") if ("#{image.height}".to_i > 250)
Base64.encode64(image.to_blob)
The addition of the .crop call, however, stops this process working my production CentOS Linux server, resulting in this error from the .to_blob call:
Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory # rb_sysopen - /tmp/mini_magick20170228-1709-t2rcyo
/path/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/mini_magick-4.6.1/lib/mini_magick/image.rb:175:in `binread'
/path/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.4.0/gems/mini_magick-4.6.1/lib/mini_magick/image.rb:175:in `to_blob'
Without cropping, the function works. Running this in the foreground (i.e. in rails console) does not cause an issue.
Updating ImageMagick, ensuring /usr/bin is in PATH and sim-linking identify did not work (per this).
Any help is appreciated.
Per #mmichael, this question / answer shifted the problem. Specifically, changing
image.crop("#{image.width}x250")
to
image.crop("#{image.width}x250+0+0")
allows the .to_blob to happen without issue.
If anyone can explain the issue as to why this happens when run in the background only, I'll gladly accept your answer instead.

Extracting images from video in JRuby-1.7.13

I want to extract images from a m4v video sent from mobile to my rails server. These images will be later used for face recognization purposes. There is a gem called "streamio-ffmpeg" that does this job nicely and easily but the problem is that it does not support JRuby-1.7.13 that I am currently using on my server. It's a big application and upgrading the JRuby version not desirable at this moment.
Can someone please suggest JRuby1.7.13 compatible alternative solutions/gems to extract the images from a video file?
From the sourcecode, it looks like streamio-ffmpeg outputs the underlying command by default :
FFMPEG.logger.info("Running transcoding...\n#{command}\n")
So all you have to do is execute :
movie.screenshot("screenshot_%d.jpg", { vframes: 50, frame_rate: '6/2' }, validate: false)
on a system where streamio-ffmpeg is installed.
You look at the output, extract the command, and use it somewhere else with :
system("ffmpeg arguments_you_extracted_from_the_logs")
without having to install streamio-ffmpeg.

Converting PDF to PNG with transparent background

We have a Ruby on Rails application that needs to convert a PDF into a PNG with a transparent background. We're using rmagick 2.13.1. On our development machines the following code works exactly how we want it.
pages = Magick::Image.from_blob(book.to_pdf.render){ self.density = 300 }
page = pages[0]
image_file = Tempfile.new(['preview_image', '.png'])
image_file.binmode
image_file.write( page.to_blob { |opt| opt.format = "PNG" } )
We thens save the image_file and all is peachy. When we deployed to a review server on Heroku, though, the generated image has a white background. It turns out that Heroku's cedar stack is using imagemagick ImageMagick 6.5.7-8 2010-12-02 where we're using ImageMagick 6.7.5-7 2012-05-08 on our development machines.
I've scoured the net for older posts that might apply to the older version to try and figure out how to generate the transparent PNGs. It's surely supported, but, so far I haven't been able to figure out the right combination of settings.
To verify that it wasn't the PDF generation that was the problem, I downloaded a PDF generated on Heroku and successfully converted it using the above code (slightly modified to read the file in instead of generate it) to a transparent PNG.
Some of the things I've tried in various combinations are:
page.matte = true
page.format = "PNG32"
page.background_color = "none"
page.transparent_color = "white"
page.transparent("white")
So, the question is "is this possible?". If so, which settings do I need to set on the image before writing it out?
I'm also investigating including a compiled binary of a more up to date Imagemagick on Heroku.
Any help is appreciated.
This should no longer be an issue, as Heroku has ImageMagick versions 6.7-6.9 on their various stacks.

Where do the temp files go when using MiniMagick in a Ruby on Rails app?

I'm using MiniMagick to perform some image resizing on images uploaded through a multi-part form. I need to generate a few different types of images from the originally uploaded file. Here's the code that's performing the image processing:
// Generates a thumbnail image
mm = MiniMagick::Image.open(Rails.root.join('public', 'uploads', new_url))
mm.resize(thumbnail_dimensions.join("x"))
mm.write(Rails.root.join('public', 'uploads', "t_"+new_url))
// Generates cropped version
mm_copy = MiniMagick::Image.open(Rails.root.join('public', 'uploads', new_url))
mm_copy.crop('200x200')
mm_copy.write(Rails.root.join('public', 'uploads', "c_"+new_url))
new_url is the path to the image in the public folder. The thumbnail routine works perfectly. When the app goes to start processing the cropped version, that is where things start breaking and I can't for the life of me figure it out. I receive the following error when from this code:
No such file or directory - /tmp/mini_magick20110627-10055-2dimyl-0.jpg
I read some stuff about possible race conditions with the garbage collector in Rails but I wasn't able to resolve the issue. I tried this from the console as well and can create MiniMagick instances but receive the No such file error there as well. At this point, I have no idea where to go so I'm hoping someone here has some helpful suggestions. Thanks for your help!
Details:
OS: Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx)
Rails Version: 3.0.7
Ruby Version: 1.8.7
MiniMagick Version: 3.3
Did you installed ImageMagick?
If not,
try sudo apt-get install ImageMagick,
and then restart your webrick server
it's probably the race condition which is mentioned here:
https://ar-code.lighthouseapp.com/projects/35/tickets/6-race-condition-with-temp_file
here's one fix:
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=9417&group_id=1358&atid=5365
alternatively, and probably easier, you could try this:
// Generates a thumbnail image
mm = MiniMagick::Image.open(Rails.root.join('public', 'uploads', new_url))
mm_copy = mm.clone # clone the opened Image, instead of re-opening it
mm.resize(thumbnail_dimensions.join("x"))
mm.write(Rails.root.join('public', 'uploads', "t_"+new_url))
// Generates cropped version
mm_copy.crop('200x200')
mm_copy.write(Rails.root.join('public', 'uploads', "c_"+new_url))

Not Identified By ImageMagick Error when there is a space in the filename

I am getting the width and height of an image stored on Amazon S3 using Paperclip as follows:
Paperclip::Geometry.from_file(user.avatar.url)
It has been working fine, but it is erroring on an image that has a space in the filename:
Paperclip::NotIdentifiedByImageMagickError: my_amazon_s3_path_is_here/Martian landslide.jpg?1294675113 is not recognized by the 'identify' command.
The image loads okay when you go to the URL in a browser. What can I do to fix this?
EDIT: Forgot to mention that images without a space in their filename work fine, so it's not an issue with Imagemagick/Paperclip setup.
Do you need to URL Encode the url's? eg replace spaces with %20
Usually when you see:
not recognized by the 'identify' command.
It means ImageMagick isn't set up correctly. Are other images working correctly?
Have you tweaked this setting yet?
Paperclip.options[:command_path] = "/opt/local/bin"
It needs to point to the location where identify is installed. From the command line, you can determine this with:
which identify
I have the same problem and file 'Снимок экрана от 2013-02-28 14:36:49.png' returns the same error. But it works correctly on heroku. So I think the problem is in ImageMagick

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