Installing new Tesseract plugin on 64 bit?

[turnkit]

After installing Tesseract from this install https://digi.bib.uni-mannheim.de/tes...-ga5ff320e.exe from https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki and installing the 64 bit plugins download for 4.67 64 bit I still get:

Can't load Plugin: "OCR.DLL"

In the Help... Installed Plugins OCR.DLL is not listed.

Can anyone advise on how to get the new Tesseract OCR plugin working?

(Also, is there a chance ever that Batch mode might work with OCR?)

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

I haven’t used OCR for years. What does your dialog look like in Settings, Plugins, OCR Options?

[IrfanUserGuyxyx]

I use batch mode with drag and drop to a shorcut to do OCR with Tesseract. I use Tesseract from cygwin, but the Windows version should work. Try:

rem --psm
rem Page segmentation modes:
rem 0 Orientation and script detection (OSD) only.
rem 1 Automatic page segmentation with OSD.
rem 2 Automatic page segmentation, but no OSD, or OCR. (not implemented)
rem 3 Fully automatic page segmentation, but no OSD. (Default)
rem 4 Assume a single column of text of variable sizes.
rem 5 Assume a single uniform block of vertically aligned text.
rem 6 Assume a single uniform block of text.
rem 7 Treat the image as a single text line.
rem 8 Treat the image as a single word.
rem 9 Treat the image as a single word in a circle.
rem 10 Treat the image as a single character.
rem 11 Sparse text. Find as much text as possible in no particular order.
rem 12 Sparse text with OSD.
rem 13 Raw line. Treat the image as a single text line,
rem bypassing hacks that are Tesseract-specific.
rem

cd %~p1
tesseract %~nx1 OCR_out --psm 6
start "" OCR_out.txt

in a batch file like OCR.cmd

you could then put the batch file in the "Open with external editor" list. See:

https://irfanview-forum.de/forum/program/command-line-and-scripts/94593-tip-using-thumbnail-view-to-browse-pdf-files

[impeeza]

Hello there fellow Irfwanview lovers

I just downloaded Tesseract 5.5.0 from https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki and worked like a charm on Irfanview, however I needed to OCR 600 images, so I used the command line and executed:

(on the Tesseract installation folder, for me: C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR )

for %n in ("c:\full\path\to\images\*.jpg") do tesseract.exe "%n" "%n" -l eng

Then few seconds after a set of IMAGE.JPG.TXT where created!

Note: the «"» SHOULD BE NORMAL ONES

[IrfanUserGuyxyx]

Wow, works great, thanks!