ByteScout Text Recognition SDK – C# – Screen Text Reader

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ByteScout Text Recognition SDK – C# – Screen Text Reader

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screen text reader in C# using ByteScout Text Recognition SDK

ByteScout Text Recognition SDK: the software development kit for automatic text recognition and OCR from pdf documents and images. Can recognize English and non-English languages.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using ByteScout.TextRecognition;

namespace ScreenTextReader
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string outputDocument = @".\result.txt";

            // Create and activate TextRecognizer instance
            using (TextRecognizer textRecognizer = new TextRecognizer("demo", "demo"))
            {
                try
                {
                    // Create ScreenshotMaker instance
                    ScreenshotMaker screenshotMaker = new ScreenshotMaker();
                    // Set rectangle to take screenshot from
                    screenshotMaker.SetScreenshotArea(0, 0, 200, 200);

                    // Load screenshot
                    textRecognizer.LoadDocument(screenshotMaker);

                    // Set the location of OCR language data files
                    textRecognizer.OCRLanguageDataFolder = @"c:\Program Files\ByteScout Text Recognition SDK\ocrdata_best\";

                    // Set OCR language.
                    // "eng" for english, "deu" for German, "fra" for French, "spa" for Spanish, etc. - according to files in "ocrdata" folder
                    // Find more language files at https://github.com/bytescout/ocrdata
                    textRecognizer.OCRLanguage = "eng"; 
                                    
                    // Recognize text from all pages and save it to file
                    textRecognizer.SaveText(outputDocument);

                    // Open the result file in default associated application (for demo purposes)
                    Process.Start(outputDocument);
                }
                catch (Exception exception)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(exception);
                }
            }

            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key...");
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}

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ScreenTextReader.csproj

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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  <PropertyGroup>
    <Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
    <Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">AnyCPU</Platform>
    <ProductVersion>8.0.30703</ProductVersion>
    <SchemaVersion>2.0</SchemaVersion>
    <ProjectGuid>{A76FCB4A-8C36-4107-AC0E-26C659745F55}</ProjectGuid>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <AppDesignerFolder>Properties</AppDesignerFolder>
    <RootNamespace>ScreenTextReader</RootNamespace>
    <AssemblyName>ScreenTextReader</AssemblyName>
    <TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.0</TargetFrameworkVersion>
    <TargetFrameworkProfile>Client</TargetFrameworkProfile>
    <FileAlignment>512</FileAlignment>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU'">
    <DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>
    <OutputPath>bin\Debug\</OutputPath>
    <DefineConstants>DEBUG;TRACE</DefineConstants>
    <DebugType>full</DebugType>
    <PlatformTarget>AnyCPU</PlatformTarget>
    <ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU'">
    <OutputPath>bin\Release\</OutputPath>
    <DefineConstants>TRACE</DefineConstants>
    <Optimize>true</Optimize>
    <DebugType>pdbonly</DebugType>
    <PlatformTarget>AnyCPU</PlatformTarget>
    <ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
    <CodeAnalysisIgnoreBuiltInRuleSets>false</CodeAnalysisIgnoreBuiltInRuleSets>
    <CodeAnalysisIgnoreBuiltInRules>false</CodeAnalysisIgnoreBuiltInRules>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <Reference Include="ByteScout.TextRecognition">
      <HintPath>C:\Program Files\ByteScout Text Recognition SDK\net4.00\ByteScout.TextRecognition.dll</HintPath>
    </Reference>
    <Reference Include="System" />
    <Reference Include="System.Core" />
    <Reference Include="System.Drawing" />
    <Reference Include="System.Xml.Linq" />
    <Reference Include="System.Data" />
    <Reference Include="System.Xml" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <Compile Include="Program.cs" />
    <Compile Include="Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
  <!-- To modify your build process, add your task inside one of the targets below and uncomment it. 
       Other similar extension points exist, see Microsoft.Common.targets.
  <Target Name="BeforeBuild">
  </Target>
  <Target Name="AfterBuild">
  </Target>
  -->
</Project>

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ScreenTextReader.sln

      
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