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G1ANT OCR Google Addon and OCR Tesseract Addon


What is OCR ?

Optical character recognition or optical character reader is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene-photo or from subtitle text superimposed on an image.

OCR Google Add-on

This add-on helps to use OCR technique via G1ANT. robot. This add-on helps to recognize text from images/screen on google.com. This add-on comprises of various commands like 

  • ocrgoogle.find
  • ocrgoogle.fromscreen
  • ocrgoogle.login
To use this command one should activate his/her google developer account and generate a API key or JSON file. A credit /debit card is must to activate the account, either you choose free trail or paid subscription credit/debit card is needed.

OCR  Tesseract Add-on

This add-on helps to use OCR technique via G1ANT.robot also. This add-on helps to recognize text from images/screen on windows applications like notepad, internet explorer. This add-on comprises of various commands like 
  • ocrtesseract.find
  • ocrtesseract.fromscreen
To use this add-on one should follow the steps :-
  1. Download the DLL file from this link.
  2. Close the G1ANT.robot (if running in background)
  3. Paste the DLL file in Documents/G1ANT.robot/Add-on
  4. Right Click on the DLL file and click on properties.
  5. Click on the unblock button.
  6. Now run the G1ANT.robot and select the ocrtesseract add-on from addon window.
With the help of the above steps one should be able to use ocrtesseract addon successfully.

You can check ocrgoogle as well as ocrtesseract add-on codes on my GitHub - Click this link 




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