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Working on an app that is very much table driven. I have "table data"; but not in text form; only images.
Windows 10 has OCR!
Using a PDF reader (and a nice zoom), I use the "Snipping Tool" to snip my "table", and save it as an image file. Then using the C# sample OCR app, I load the image and it extracts the text. I'm getting 95 to 100% recognition. The app highlights what it extracted from the image so you can see what "noise" was the issue (you could then pixel adjust the image, for example). Since it's possible to access clip board images, you could eliminate the file step altogether. Brilliant stuff, IMO.
OCR sample - Code Samples | Microsoft Docs
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I did not know Win10 had OCR out of the box for free.
I used to use LEADTools OCR a couple of year's ago but that is mega expensive.
Interesting.
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Yep, for $3,000 (LeadTools) you could purchase a "whole lotta" Windows licenses, depending on your source and version and student status.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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It does and you can even use the OCR API in a WPF or WinForms application: OCR in WPF using the WinRT OCR API
"As beings of finite lifespan, our contributions to the sum of human knowledge is one of the greatest endeavors we can undertake and one of the defining characteristics of humanity itself"
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I am missing something. If that requires a C# sample app how is it that W10 has OCR?
If it requires an external app then W10 does NOT have OCR at all. The app provides OCR.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I thought it was an app showing you how to use Windows 10 OCR assemblies. Perhaps I am missing something.
Shows how to use the OCR API:
Windows.Media.Ocr
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I wouldn't post a turd party crap and claim "Windows 10 has OCR". That would be spam, IMO.
It's a "native" UWP app from the SDK "master" collection of "samples". (examples?)
I included the link so people could "examine" the code and decide if it was useful (since it is quite "small"), and runs "out of the box".
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Apparently we have a different understanding of the word, "has."
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I'm planning to use Azure Cognitive Services for a small project for some OCR.
More specifically, I'd like to automatically read dates, descriptions and prices on invoices when I upload them to my system.
It's probably a hell of a lot of work and will save me little time, but I just wouldn't feel like a developer if I'd let this chance slip to automate in two weeks what I can do in three minutes 
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Make them use EDI.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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That's completely not my use case, nor possible, nor wishful.
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I must admit that I've never tested it but Windows has had automatic OCRing of TIFF files (if you install the TIFF IFilter) for at least a decade.
As I say, I've never tested it but it was (and still is) there.
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From what I could tell, OCR, up to now, was for masochists. Just query OCR.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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It can be hard to get an exact like for like OCR but it can often work well enough.
I just tested the TIFF IFilter OCR ability and it seems to actually work (mostly). I took a screen shot of this forum page and saved it as a .tiff. I then used Windows Search to search for text within the file. I tried "must admit that I've never tested it" and it found it! (I admit that I had a lot of hits on the phrase so I added "kind:picture" to narrow it down to picture files so as to not have to scroll through pages of hits).
I tried various words in the screenshot and one word that the TIFF IFilter failed to OCR was "masochists". Don't ask me why. 
I'll upload the TIFF somewhere if you want it but you can trivially create your own to test it with. You'll need to manually install the TIFF IFilter if you haven't already done so.
** edit **
I tested with some more search strings. When I accidentally searched for "makr them use EDI" (quotes included) it found nothing. When I corrected the spelling to "make them use EDI" (quotes included again) it instantly found it. Windows Search really is searching the OCR'd and indexed contents of the image file.
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I was having a conversation about a client who uses Rust, and was curious as to why they chose the Rust language until it was pointed out they are very much into high performance web development. You can use Rust to create WebAssembly.
Ryan pointed me to AssemblyScript[^] which, given my new crush on TypeScript, looks really interesting. Still lots of holes in it, but looks fairly awesome.
Has anyone used it?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Damn. Here I go again.
I thought it was a cool new mono-spaced font!
(Never mind)
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Programmers have no clue how to write web pages that actually tell you what the damn thing is.
Totally clueless about what AssemblyScript is. The most I can glean is:
export function fib(n: i32): i32 {
You can use "i32" instead of "number" as the type.
Ummm...I'm waiting for the "oh wow, that is so COOL!" moment. Waiting. Waiting.
Nope. Done waiting.
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Exactly why we started ContentLab.io
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I've taken the plunge to start writing for ContentLab.io. I guess we'll see if I can actually write. 
I'll try to make the articles more understandable than my code.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Awesome!
honey the codewitch wrote: I'll try to make the articles more understandable than my code
That's why we have Terry. He makes us all look great.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Must... not... comment... on... curly... braces...
Man, being your friend is hard work 
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But I'm worth it!
Real programmers use butterflies
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OK - I never heard of contentlab.io until now. So I went there.
First page:
Accelerate Your Tech Resource Hub Creation
Our formula for connecting brands to technical audiences is providing curated, deeply technical content at scale to reach every part of the developer experience.
(Red emphasis is mine)
Reminds me way too much of an (AM radio) commercial selling web design and using every buzz-word they can come up with to impress management types. WTF isn't curated these days? Curators, I suppose. As for "developer experience", well . . . on second thought I'm already in enough trouble with these complaints.
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Sometimes a message isn't for you. Sometimes it's for people with a very different role, a different way of thinking, and a different vocabulary.
We actually educate marketing types on how to speak to Developer types. Want to be a case study?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Want to be a case study?
I've been told, now and then, that I'm quite a case. Some sort of a case, and a few permutations that aren't KSS.
So what do I need to study?
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