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 ====== OCR Condition ====== ====== OCR Condition ======
  
-The //OCR condition// (v9.0+) extracts the text from an image using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) (specifically using the [[https://​en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Tesseract_(software)|Tesseract OCR library]]) and determines if it currently meets the specified.+The //OCR condition// (v9.0+) extracts the text from an image using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) (specifically using Apple Text Recognition (v11+ and macOS 10.15+) or the [[https://​en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Tesseract_(software)|Tesseract OCR library]]) and determines if it currently meets the specified.
  
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 As with any OCR, the text may contain errors so you should be relatively liberal in how specifying your criteria. As with any OCR, the text may contain errors so you should be relatively liberal in how specifying your criteria.
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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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