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Vision.RecognizeText
Recognizes text.
| Component | Version | macOS | Windows | Linux | Server | iOS SDK |
| Vision | 9.4 | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ❌ No | ✅ Yes, on macOS and Windows | ✅ Yes |
MBS( "Vision.RecognizeText"; Image { ; Recognition Levels; Languages; CustomWords; PageLimit } ) More
Parameters
| Parameter | Description | Example | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Image | The image to analyze. Can be container value with JPEG, PNG or other image formats supported by Vision framework. |
$image | |
| Recognition Levels | Can be "Fast" or "Accurate". macOS and iOS only. Ignored on Windows. |
"Accurate" | Optional |
| Languages | Specify the languages used for the detection. The order of the languages in the array defines the order in which languages will be used during the language processing. The languages are specified as ISO language codes. |
"en_US" | Optional |
| CustomWords | An array of strings that will be used at the word recognition stage in addition to the recognition languages. The customWords list takes precedence over the standard lexicon. macOS and iOS only. Ignored on Windows. |
"FileMaker¶Claris" | Optional |
| PageLimit | Available in MBS FileMaker Plugin 12.3 or newer. The maximum page count allowed for PDF pages. Default is 1 to only look on first page. It is highly recommended to use a limit to only get text from first n pages due to the time it takes to render pages and recognize text. Pass 0 for no limit. |
1 | Optional |
Result
Returns list or error.
Description
Recognizes text.Requires MacOS 10.15 or iOS 13.0 or newer. This similar to the GetLiveText function in FileMaker 19.5 and later.
If you need cross platform text recognition, please check our OCR functions.
Added PDF support for plugin version 12.3. PDF pages can now be rendered and run through recognition.
For PDF files, you may also check PDFKit.GetPDFPageText and PDFKit.GetPDFText to extract text directly.
Implemented Windows version for images via WindowsOCR functions in v13.1. If languages is empty, uses current language of user. Recognition levels and custom words are not supported for Windows. See also WindowsOCR.Recognize function.
Examples
Recognize text:
Set Field [ Vision::Result ; MBS( "Vision.RecognizeText"; Vision::Image; "Accurate") ]
See also
- CoreImage.Detect
- OCR.GetTextAsJSON
- OCR.Recognize
- PDFKit.GetPDFPageText
- PDFKit.GetPDFText
- Vision.RecognizeTextJSON
- WindowsOCR.Recognize
- WindowsOCR.Result
Release notes
- Version 13.2
- Changed Vision.RecognizeText to handle PDF documents on Windows, too.
- Version 13.1
- Implemented Vision.RecognizeText for Windows using WindowsOCR functions.
- Version 12.3
- Added PDF support for Vision.RecognizeText function, so you can get live text from PDF documents.
- Version 10.5
- Fixed memory leaks in BinaryFile.WriteContainer, Container.ReadImage, Vision.ClassifyImage, Vision.DetectBarcode and Vision.RecognizeText functions.
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- New in MBS FileMaker Plugin 13.2
- MBS Plugin 13.2 for Claris FileMaker
- MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 13.2pr1
- MBS Plugin 13.1 for Claris FileMaker
- OCR on Windows in FileMaker
- LiveText for Windows
- MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 13.1pr1
- MBS Plugin 12.3 for Claris FileMaker
- Claris FileMaker 19.5 available
- Vision Framework for FileMaker
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This function checks for a license.
Created 18th August 2019, last changed 5th February 2023
