Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: Component: OCR

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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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