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Component: OCR
Recognize text on images.
| Version | macOS | Windows | Linux | Server | iOS SDK |
| 2.9 / 11.3 | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| OCR.Cleanup Shutdown the engine and free all memory. | All 2.9 |
| OCR.Clear Free up recognition results and any stored image data, without actually freeing any recognition data that would be time-consuming to reload. | All 2.9 |
| OCR.GetBoxText The recognized text is returned as a text which is coded in the same format as a box file used in training. | All 2.9 |
| OCR.GetHOCRText Make a HTML-formatted string with hOCR markup from the internal data structures. | All 2.9 |
| OCR.GetPageSegMode Queries page segmentation mode. | All 2.9 |
| OCR.GetText Returns recognized text. | All 2.9 |
| OCR.GetTextWithCoordinates Queries text with coordinates. | All 6.5 |
| OCR.GetVariable Queries a variable. | All 7.5 |
| OCR.Initialize Initializes tesseract. | All 2.9 |
| OCR.IsInitialized Checks if OCR library has been initialized. | All 4.2 |
| OCR.IsLoaded Whether newer tesseract is loaded. | All 11.3 |
| OCR.Language Return the language used in the last valid initialization. | All 2.9 |
| OCR.Load Loads newer tesseract engine. | All 11.3 |
| OCR.MeanTextConf Returns the (average) confidence value between 0 and 100. | All 2.9 |
| OCR.Recognize Recognize the image. | All 2.9 |
| OCR.SetImage Provide an image for Tesseract to recognize. | All 2.9 |
| OCR.SetImageContainer Loads a picture from container. | All 11.3 |
| OCR.SetImageFile Loads a picture from file directly. | All 11.3 |
| OCR.SetPageSegMode Sets page segmentation mode. | All 2.9 |
| OCR.SetRectangle Restrict recognition to a sub-rectangle of the image. | All 2.9 |
| OCR.SetResolution Set the resolution of the source image in pixels per inch. | All 5.1 |
| OCR.SetVariable Sets a variable. | All 7.5 |
| OCR.Version Query version of Tesseract library. | All 11.3 |
| OCR.WriteToPDF Writes text on the PDF. | All 3.1 |
24 functions shown.
Release notes
- Version 11.3
- Added OCR.Load and OCR.IsLoaded functions to use Tesseract 4.x for text recognition.
- Added OCR.SetImageContainer and OCR.SetImageFile functions to directly feed image files (and containers).
- Added OCR.Version function to query Tesseract version.
- Version 11.2
- Changed OCR functions to separate different threads on server better.
- Version 7.5
- Added OCR.GetVariable and OCR.SetVariable functions, e.g. to enable number only mode.
- Improved OCR.WriteToPDF to reduce font size if needed to make sure words are not too wide.
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