OCR Object (Deprecated)

Applies to TestComplete 12.60, last modified on September 17, 2018
The Optical Character Recognition feature provided by the OCR plugin is deprecated. It was removed from TestComplete in version 12.60 and is no longer available for later versions.
Instead, TestComplete version 12.60 introduces the new Optical Character Recognition engine featuring Google Cloud Vision API. To learn more, see Optical Character Recognition.
If you need to use the legacy feature, please contact our Customer Care team.

Description

The OCR object provides a program interface to optical character recognition in your scripts. This is a top-level object that is available if the OCR plugin (<TestComplete>\Bin\Extensions\tcOCR.pls) is installed.

Members

Methods

Example

The following example captures an image of the Windows Notepad window and uses it to create a new OCRObject. After that, it recognizes the characters written in Notepad and posts them to the test log.

JavaScript, JScript
Python
VBScript
DelphiScript
C++Script, C#Script

JavaScript, JScript

function OCROptionsSample()
{
  var notepad, Window, Rect, OCRObj, s, X, Y;
  // Obtain the Notepad window
  notepad = Sys.Process("notepad");
  Window = notepad.Window("Notepad", "*").Window("Edit");

  // Capture an image of the Notepad window and post it to the test log
  Rect = Window.Picture();
  Log.Picture(Rect, "Region with the text to be recognized");

  // Create an OCR object
  OCRObj = OCR.CreateObject(Rect);

  // Recognize the text
  s = OCRObj.GetText();

  // Post the recorgnized text to the test log
  Log.Message("See the recognized text in the Additional Info panel.", s);

}

Python

def OCROptionsSample():
  # Obtain the Notepad window
  notepad = Sys.Process("notepad")
  Window = notepad.Window("Notepad", "*").Window("Edit")
  # Capture an image of the Notepad window and post it to the test log
  Rect = Window.Picture()
  Log.Picture(Rect, "Region with the text to be recognized")
  # Create an OCR object
  OCRObj = OCR.CreateObject(Rect)
  # Recognize the text
  s = OCRObj.GetText()
  # Post the recorgnized text to the test log
  Log.Message("See the recognized text in the Additional Info panel.", s)

VBScript

Sub OCROptionsSample

  ' Obtain the Notepad window
  Set notepad = Sys.Process("notepad")
  Set Window = notepad.Window("Notepad", "*").Window("Edit")

  ' Capture an image of the Notepad window and post it to the test log
  Set Rect = Window.Picture
  Call Log.Picture(Rect, "Region with the text to be recognized")

  ' Create an OCR object
  Set OCRObj = OCR.CreateObject(Rect)

  ' Recognize the text
  s = OCRObj.GetText()

  ' Post the recorgnized text to the test log
  Call Log.Message("See the recognized text in the Additional Info panel.", s)

End Sub

DelphiScript

procedure OCROptionsSample();
var notepad, Window, Rect, OCRObj, s, X, Y: OleVariant;
begin
  // Obtain the Notepad window
  notepad := Sys.Process('notepad');
  Window := notepad.Window('Notepad', '*').Window('Edit');

  // Capture an image of the Notepad window and post it to the test log
  Rect := Window.Picture();
  Log.Picture(Rect, 'Region with the text to be recognized');

  // Create an OCR object
  OCRObj := OCR.CreateObject(Rect);

  // Recognize the text
  s := OCRObj.GetText();

  // Post the recorgnized text to the test log
  Log.Message('See the recognized text in the Additional Info panel.', s);

end;

C++Script, C#Script

function OCROptionsSample()
{
  var notepad, Window, Rect, OCRObj, s, X, Y;
  // Obtain the Notepad window
  notepad = Sys["Process"]("notepad");
  Window = notepad["Window"]("Notepad", "*")["Window"]("Edit");

  // Capture an image of the Notepad window and post it to the test log
  Rect = Window["Picture"]();
  Log["Picture"](Rect, "Region with the text to be recognized");

  // Create an OCR object
  OCRObj = OCR["CreateObject"](Rect);

  // Recognize the text
  s = OCRObj["GetText"]();

  // Post the recorgnized text to the test log
  Log["Message"]("See the recognized text in the Additional Info panel.", s);

}

See Also

Optical Character Recognition
Using Optical Character Recognition - Tips

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