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Reputation: 4524

Meaning of x_descenders and x_ascenders in hOCR file?

Here's the line from Tesseract 4 output (.hocr file):

<span class='ocr_line' 
      id='line_1_1' 
      title="bbox 36 92 580 122; baseline 0 -6; x_size 30; x_descenders 6; x_ascenders 6">

What's the meaning of x_descenders and x_ascenders properties?

I know in typography a descender is "the portion of a letter that extends below the baseline of a font". But there are situations when x_descenders is not an integer but a float like in x_descenders 5.2608695. Then what that would mean?

Then I wonder how to interpret decimal parts of

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