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Component: OCR
Recognize text on images.
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.Language Return the language used in the last valid initialization. | All 2.9 |
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.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.WriteToPDF Writes text on the PDF. | All 3.1 |
19 functions.
Release notes
- 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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