ByteScout Text Recognition SDK – PowerShell – Screen Text Reader

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ByteScout Text Recognition SDK – PowerShell – Screen Text Reader

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screen text reader in PowerShell with ByteScout Text Recognition SDK

What is ByteScout Text Recognition SDK? It is the SDK designed to help developers in quick implementation of high quality OCR text recognition from scanned images and pdf.

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ScreenTextReader.ps1

      # Add reference to ByteScout.TextRecognition.dll assembly
Add-Type -Path "c:\Program Files\ByteScout Text Recognition SDK\net40\ByteScout.TextRecognition.dll"

$OutputDocument = ".\result.txt"

# Create and activate TextRecognizer instance
$textRecognizer = New-Object ByteScout.TextRecognition.TextRecognizer
$textRecognizer.RegistrationName = "demo"
$textRecognizer.RegistrationKey = "demo"

try {
    # Create ScreenshotMaker instance
    $screenshotMaker = New-Object ByteScout.TextRecognition.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)
    & $OutputDocument
}
catch {
    # Display exception
    Write-Host $_.Exception.Message
}

$textRecognizer.Dispose()

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run.bat

      @echo off

powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "& .\ScreenTextReader.ps1"
echo Script finished with errorlevel=%errorlevel%

pause