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--- action:OCR_Image [2019/07/15 04:02] – created peternlewis
+++ action:OCR_Image [2023/09/13 03:07] (current) – peternlewis
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 ====== OCR Screen or Image ======
-The //OCR Image// action allows you to extract the text from an image using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) (specifically using the Tesseract OCR library).
+The //OCR Image// action allows you to extract the text from an image using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) (specifically using either Apple Text Recognition (v11+ and macOS 10.15+) or the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_(software)|Tesseract OCR library]]).
 {{ ocr-image.png?nolink&503x171 | OCR Image }}
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 You can choose what language or script the text is in.  Each language will require a download, typically between 1 and 10 MB, though there are a few scripts that are significantly larger.
-By default their is a [[trigger:Clipboard_Filter|Clipboard Filter]] macro to OCR images available in the Clipboard Filters folder which you can access from the [[manual:Clipboard_History_Switcher|Clipboard History Switcher]] Gear (⚙) menu.
+As with any OCR, the text may contain errors so you should be careful not to assume the result is 100% accurate.
+By default there is a [[trigger:Clipboard_Filter|Clipboard Filter]] macro to OCR images available in the Clipboard Filters folder which you can access from the [[manual:Clipboard_History_Switcher|Clipboard History Switcher]] Gear (⚙) menu.
 {{ ocr-clipboard-filter.png?nolink&537x428 | OCR Clipboard Filter }}
+Note that the Tesseract OCR software prefers black-on-white text, and while it will often work with white-on-black text, it will be more likely to fail in those cases.
 ===== See Also =====
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 ==== Actions ====
+* [[If Then Else]]
+* [[Pause Until]]
+* [[For Each]]
+* [[Repeat]]
+* [[Until]]
+* [[Assert]]
 * [[:Actions|See all Actions]]
+==== Conditions====
+* [[condition:OCR]]
+* [[:Conditions|See all Conditions]]