Img to *-OCR.txt

[xavierarmand]

this is great! thanks to this post: Is it possible to search files by text shown in images?

i made a great button & context menu action for images. that will automatic extract text out of image, creating a txt file next to the image.

PictureName.png turns into
PictureName.png-OCR.txt !

Requires having Tesseract installed.

the simple code for button \ context menu...

@nodeselect
@nofilenamequoting
"C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe" "{filepath}" "{filepath}-OCR"

change the program location if you installed it else where.
Here the button:
Img to #-OCR.txt.zip (697 Bytes)

this is the context menu entry which i set under Images File Type Group so it only shows up on pictures.

the OCR is so-so but ive noticed the same mistakes from other OCR software. i love how quick this is! fast than opening sharex or snip and manually copying the results!

an example:

Microsoft Word . N =)

(7) Do you want to keep the last item you copied?

If you do, it may take a bit longer to exit.

Enjoy yall!

[abr]

Sounds useful. So you can take a picture with a digital camera an run it through that application? Or is a scanner required (don't own one)?

[xavierarmand]

I would imagine you could, worse case scenario is that the orc wouldn't see any text and you get a blank .txt file. I do plan on trying that. I'll post when I do.

[xavierarmand]

the answer is yes!

i used the the 1st random image i came across going into my personal photo library with text in it.

i used this picture... [i resized to post, the original is 12mb]

and got this text out of it. it saw more text then i expected despite all its misspellings, i call this a win!
;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Due to fire activity in the area, The

Observation Peak Trailhead is inaccessible

due to road closures. We apologize for the
inconvenience.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOREST SERVICE
GIFFORD PINCHOT NATIONAL FOREST
MOUNT ST HELENS NATIONAL VOLCANIC MOUNUMENT ADMINISTRATIVE DISTRICT
AMBOY, WA

FOREST ORDER NO. 06-03-01 -22-06
Siouxon Area Closure
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areca described below and on the attached map (Exhibit A) on the Mount St Helens Navonal Volcaruc
Monument Adomilsweative District within the Gifford Puchot National Forest. These prohibitions will be
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[abr]

That's cool. If the texts are rather short, it should be no problem to fix a few misspellings. I wonder, how the software would handle fancy fonts, like those in 'handwriting' style. I will test it, thanks.

e\ it works! Needs a bit improvement with Umlaute (diacritics), but surely useful.

[xavierarmand]

microsoft office has hand writing OCR. if you drop the images into Word or Onenote you may be able to copy the txt out of them thru the context menu.