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| ====== OCR Screen or Image ====== | ====== 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 }} | {{ 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. | 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. |
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| + | 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 }} | {{ ocr-clipboard-filter.png?nolink&537x428 | OCR Clipboard Filter }} | ||
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| + | 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 ===== | ===== See Also ===== | ||
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| ==== Actions ==== | ==== Actions ==== | ||
| + | * [[If Then Else]] | ||
| + | * [[Pause Until]] | ||
| + | * [[For Each]] | ||
| + | * [[Repeat]] | ||
| + | * [[Until]] | ||
| + | * [[Assert]] | ||
| * [[:Actions|See all Actions]] | * [[:Actions|See all Actions]] | ||
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| + | ==== Conditions==== | ||
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| + | * [[condition:OCR]] | ||
| + | * [[:Conditions|See all Conditions]] | ||
action/OCR_Image.1563163332.txt.gz · Last modified: 2019/07/15 00:02 by peternlewis
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