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OCR.Load
Loads newer tesseract engine.
| Component | Version | macOS | Windows | Linux | Server | iOS SDK |
| OCR | 11.3 | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
Parameters
| Parameter | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Path | The native path to the library. |
Result
Returns OK or error.
Description
Loads newer tesseract engine.You can load here a version of tesseract 4 or 5.
You may first need to load leptonica library via this function and then the tesseract library, if it is not in the same library file.
Examples
Load it on Linux:
// please install tesseract library, so plugin can load it:
// sudo apt-get install libtesseract4
MBS( "OCR.Load"; "liblept.so.5" ) &
MBS( "OCR.Load"; "libtesseract.so.4" )
Load it on macOS with our library:
// for macOS, please download from our website
// https://www.monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Libs/
// which includes leptonica library!
MBS("OCR.Load"; "/Users/cs/Tesseract/tesseract4/tesseract.dylib")
Load it on macOS with homebrew:
// install via homebrew
// brew install tesseract-lang
MBS( "OCR.Load"; "/opt/homebrew/lib/liblept.5.dylib" ) &
MBS( "OCR.Load"; "/opt/homebrew/lib/libtesseract.4.dylib" )
Load it on Windows:
// get Windows DLL somewhere
// e.g. https://digi.bib.uni-mannheim.de/tesseract/
MBS("Process.SetCurrentDirectory"; "C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR") &
MBS( "OCR.Load"; "liblept-5.dll" ) &
MBS( "OCR.Load"; "libtesseract-4.dll" )
See also
Release notes
- Version 11.3
- Added OCR.Load and OCR.IsLoaded functions to use Tesseract 4.x for text recognition.
Example Databases
Blog Entries
- New in MBS FileMaker Plugin 11.3
- Neues MBS FileMaker Plugin 11.3
- MBS FileMaker Plugin 11.3 - More than 6500 Functions In One Plugin
- Introducing Tesseract 4 to FileMaker
- MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 11.3pr4
This function checks for a license.
Created 20th June 2021, last changed 4th March 2024
