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Imports System
Imports System.Diagnostics
Imports System.IO
Imports Bytescout.TextRecognition
Module Module1
Sub Main()
' Input file url
Dim inputFileUrl As String = "https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/image-to-pdf/image1.png"
Dim outputDocument As String = ".\result.txt"
' Input stream
Dim inputStream As Stream = GetStreamFromUrl(inputFileUrl)
' Create and activate TextRecognizer instance
Using textRecognizer As TextRecognizer = New TextRecognizer("demo", "demo")
Try
' Load document (image or PDF)
textRecognizer.LoadDocument(inputStream)
' Set the location of OCR language data files
textRecognizer.OCRLanguageDataFolder = "C:\Program Files\ByteScout Text Recognition SDK\tessdata\"
' 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 As Exception
Console.WriteLine(exception)
End Try
End Using
End Sub
''' <summary>
''' Get stream from Url
''' </summary>
Private Function GetStreamFromUrl(ByVal url As String) As Stream
Dim oData As Byte() = Nothing
Using wc As New System.Net.WebClient()
oData = wc.DownloadData(url)
End Using
Return New MemoryStream(oData)
End Function
End Module
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Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 11.00
# Visual Studio 2010
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EndProject
Global
GlobalSection(SolutionConfigurationPlatforms) = preSolution
Debug|Any CPU = Debug|Any CPU
Release|Any CPU = Release|Any CPU
EndGlobalSection
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{E5339352-1EBE-4547-B281-88D9FEEF92D7}.Release|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Release|Any CPU
{E5339352-1EBE-4547-B281-88D9FEEF92D7}.Release|Any CPU.Build.0 = Release|Any CPU
EndGlobalSection
GlobalSection(SolutionProperties) = preSolution
HideSolutionNode = FALSE
EndGlobalSection
EndGlobal
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