ByteScout Text Recognition SDK – VBScript and VB6 – Use Text Auto Corrections

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ByteScout Text Recognition SDK – VBScript and VB6 – Use Text Auto Corrections

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How to use text auto corrections in VBScript and VB6 and ByteScout Text Recognition SDK

How to use text auto corrections in VBScript and VB6

Learn how to use text auto corrections in VBScript and VB6 with this source code sample. ByteScout Text Recognition SDK is the software development kit for automatic text recognition and OCR from pdf documents and images. Can recognize English and non-English languages. It can be used to use text auto corrections using VBScript and VB6.

The SDK samples like this one below explain how to quickly make your application do use text auto corrections in VBScript and VB6 with the help of ByteScout Text Recognition SDK. Just copy and paste the code into your VBScript and VB6 application’s code and follow the instruction. Use of ByteScout Text Recognition SDK in VBScript and VB6 is also explained in the documentation included along with the product.

Trial version of ByteScout Text Recognition SDK can be downloaded for free from our website. It also includes source code samples for VBScript and VB6 and other programming languages.

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AutoCorrections.vbs

      ' Create and activate TextRecognizer object
Set textRecognizer = CreateObject("ByteScout.TextRecognition.TextRecognizer")
textRecognizer.RegistrationName = "demo"
textRecognizer.RegistrationKey = "demo"

inputDocument = "..\..\bad-quality.png"
outputDocument = "result.txt"

' Load document (image or PDF)
textRecognizer.LoadDocument(inputDocument)

' Set the location of OCR language data files
textRecognizer.OCRLanguageDataFolder = "c:\Program Files\ByteScout Text Recognition SDK\ocrdata_fast\"

' 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" 


' Add error corrections that will be applied after the recognition.
textRecognizer.Corrections.Add "Tut ", "Test "
textRecognizer.Corrections.Add "Recog\w{1,}on", "Recognition", True


' Recognize text from all pages and save it to file
textRecognizer.SaveText(outputDocument)

WScript.Echo "Extracted text saved to " + outputDocument

Set recognizer = Nothing