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Returns recognized text.
Component | Version | macOS | Windows | Linux | Server | iOS SDK |
OCR | 2.9 | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
none
Returns the text.
Query text:
$text = MBS( "OCR.GetText" )
Custom function to read image and return text:
/*
MBS-OCR ( language; Image)
Requires tessdata resources [MIT ©]
language: deu ('deu.traineddata), fra, eng, etc.
Image: Container Fieldname ('MyTable::MyField') in Quotes
path: FM/Extensions - put 'tessdata' Folder into FM Extensions Folder
Benjamin Fehr, EfficientBizz GmbH
http://www.efficientbizz.com
*/
Let (
[
// init OCR
$path = MBS ("Path.FileMakerPathToNativePath"; Get(FileMakerPath)& "Extensions/") ;
initialize = MBS( "OCR.Initialize"; $path; language) ; $Error = initialize ;
SegMode = MBS( "OCR.SetPageSegMode"; "Auto");
// Process Image
$img = MBS("GMImage.NewFromContainer"; Image);
set = MBS("OCR.SetImage"; $img) ;
$result = MBS("OCR.GetText") ;
// Cleanup
$clean = MBS( "OCR.Cleanup") ;
$destroy = MBS( "GMImage.Release"; $img)
]
; "" )
This function is free to use.
Created 18th August 2014, last changed 13th March 2022