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Screen Text Reader | PowerShell
run.bat:
@echo off powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "& .\ScreenTextReader.ps1" echo Script finished with errorlevel=%errorlevel% pause
ScreenTextReader.ps1:
# Add reference to ByteScout.TextRecognition.dll assembly Add-Type -Path "c:\Program Files\ByteScout Text Recognition SDK\net40\ByteScout.TextRecognition.dll" $OutputDocument = ".\result.txt" # Create and activate TextRecognizer instance $textRecognizer = New-Object ByteScout.TextRecognition.TextRecognizer $textRecognizer.RegistrationName = "demo" $textRecognizer.RegistrationKey = "demo" try { # Create ScreenshotMaker instance $screenshotMaker = New-Object ByteScout.TextRecognition.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) & $OutputDocument } catch { # Display exception Write-Host $_.Exception.Message } $textRecognizer.Dispose()