OCR as compiled EXE

[Jerry Thomas]

I am trying out the new OCR stuff as a compiled exe and it doesn't work.
This runs fine on my development PC, but when I create an exe and try to run from a test pc, no good.

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// Start Notepad first
GetWindowPos>Untitled - Notepad,LEFT,TOP
Let>RIGHT=LEFT+200
Let>BOTTOM=TOP+50
OCRArea>LEFT,TOP,RIGHT,BOTTOM,strText
MDL>strText

At first I got an error that the OCR.dll was missing so I copied to to same folder on test pc (Desktop)
Now I get "Exception EOcrError....Cannot initialize Tesseract library"

What else do I need to copy over to my test machine?

[Jerry Thomas]

<smack forehead>
I didn't search enough

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9591 is the exact same issue and has the answer!

Thanks elenareinoso!

[colin.rogers]

Hi all,

I am having precisely this same issue with compiled OCR functions. However, I note the guidance on the DLL and language files but see these are present in the target folder as copied there by the compiler itself.

OCRArea works in dev and outputs the variable with the text
Identical code (2 lines) fails in compiled .exe and the variable is empty - on screen window content and position is identical

Anything else I am doing wrong ? Thanks.

Colin Rogers

[Marcus Tettmar]

That's very odd and I'm not sure why this would be. I'm not seeing any difference in results between compiled and non-compiled versions.

[colin.rogers]

In my case, the failure of OCRArea in the compiled version was down to an out of date compiler which did not recognise the new OCR functions. By uninstalling and reinstalling things, I fixed the bug.

The support team suggested this step in the code, which helped to determine which version I had.

MessageModal>MSCHED_VER

Support was exceptional, thank you.