Extract Text

Targets macOS
1

Hello,

I have an imagewell, ImageWell1, I drop images on that imagewell, and the images contain text only, about 20 characters at most.

How can I extract the text from the image being displayed in ImageWell1?

Thanks.

Lennox

2

You need some kind of OCR solution.

If you have the MBS plugins you should be able to use the functions they provide via the open source tesseract engine.

https://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/plugin-ocr.shtml

3

Thanks kevin g,

This is for a personal project, looking for a free solution.

Thanks again,

Lennox

4

The tesseract project has binaries for MS-Windows & Linux so you might be able to interact with.

I think there might be a macOS version available on Homebrew / Mac Ports.

5

Or use LiveText API (look at Apple Developer Support).

6

Thanks Emile,
I checked it out… That requires a knowledge of Swift which I lack.
: For macOS apps, add Live text interface by adding a view above the view containing the image."

I would appreciate a Xojo version… anyone?

Thanks.

Lennox

7

I use Amazon AWS Textract, which is not free but not expensive either. Works way better than Tesseract in my experience.

8

Thanks Julia,

It is not a big issue, so I have to use a workaround since it is not a common task for my project.

Thanks again.

Lennox