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WindowsOCR.Recognize

Scans the specified image for text.

Component Version macOS Windows Linux Server iOS SDK
WindowsOCR 13.1 ❌ No ✅ Yes ❌ No ✅ Yes, on Windows ❌ No
MBS( "WindowsOCR.Recognize"; OCR; Image )   More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example
OCR The reference number of the ocr engine. $ocr
Image The image container to use.
Can be JPEG, PNG, BMP, PDF and other data types.		 MyTable::Image

Result

Returns OK or error.

Description

Scans the specified image for text.
We will ask Windows to load the image from the image container and then run OCR.

Seems to work fine for JPEG and PNG files, but other formats may be supported by Windows, too.
We built-in support for PDF files to recognize text from first page.

See also Vision.RecognizeText function.

Examples

Recognize some text from image:

Set Variable [ $ocr ; Value: MBS( "WindowsOCR.New"; Windows OCR::Language) ]
If [ MBS("IsError") ]
    Show Custom Dialog [ "Windows OCR" ; "Failed to intiialize: " & $ocr ]
Else
    Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS( "WindowsOCR.Recognize"; $ocr; Windows OCR::InputImage) ]
    If [ MBS("IsError") ]
        Show Custom Dialog [ "Windows OCR" ; "Failed to recognize: " & $r ]
    Else
        Set Field [ Windows OCR::Text ; MBS( "WindowsOCR.Text"; $ocr ) ]
    End If
    #
    Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS( "WindowsOCR.Release"; $ocr) ]
End If

See also

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Created 22nd January 2023, last changed 31st January 2023


WindowsOCR.New - WindowsOCR.RecognizeFile