Screen Text Reader - VB.NET
Text Recognition SDK sample in VB.NET demonstrating ‘Screen Text Reader’
Module1.vb
Imports System
Imports System.Diagnostics
Imports Bytescout.TextRecognition
Module Module1
Sub Main()
Dim outputDocument As String = ".\result.txt"
' Create and activate TextRecognizer instance
Using textRecognizer As TextRecognizer = New TextRecognizer("demo", "demo")
Try
' Create ScreenshotMaker instance
Dim screenshotMaker As ScreenshotMaker = new ScreenshotMaker()
' Set rectangle to take screenshot from
screenshotMaker.SetScreenshotArea(0, 0, 200, 200)
' Load screenshot
textRecognizer.LoadDocument(screenshotMaker)
' Set the location of OCR language data files
textRecognizer.OCRLanguageDataFolder = "c:\Program Files\ByteScout Text Recognition SDK\ocrdata_best\"
' 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
End Module