tesseract-ocrHow can I use Tesseract OCR with Xamarin Forms?
Tesseract OCR can be used with Xamarin Forms to enable text recognition from images. The following example code shows how to use Tesseract OCR in a Xamarin Forms project.
//Add Tesseract NuGet package to the project
Install-Package Tesseract
//Create a new instance of the TesseractEngine
var engine = new TesseractEngine(@"./tessdata", "eng", EngineMode.Default);
//Load image
var image = new Bitmap(@"./image.png");
//Run OCR on the image
var page = engine.Process(image);
//Get the recognized text
var recognizedText = page.GetText();
//Display the recognized text
Console.WriteLine(recognizedText);
Output example
This is a sample text.
Code explanation
Install-Package Tesseract
- This command adds the Tesseract NuGet package to the project.var engine = new TesseractEngine(@"./tessdata", "eng", EngineMode.Default);
- This line creates a new instance of the TesseractEngine.var image = new Bitmap(@"./image.png");
- This line loads the image from the specified path.var page = engine.Process(image);
- This line runs OCR on the image.var recognizedText = page.GetText();
- This line gets the recognized text from the image.Console.WriteLine(recognizedText);
- This line displays the recognized text.
Helpful links
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