OCR Templater Script for Obsidian

[pmbauer]

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OCR Templater Script for Obsidian

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Templater Script for Obsidian.

Video Demonstration

Installation

Pre-requisites

• Obsidian
• Templater plugin.

Install the Tesseract OCR engine.

Prebuilt Binaries for Linux and Windows are available. On Mac: brew install tesseract.

Create Templater System Command for Tesseract

1. Open Settings > Templater
2. Turn on Enable System Commands
3. Add a User Function named ocr

/usr/local/bin/tesseract "$ocr_input" -

NOTE I reccomend increasing the Templater Timeout to 10s or more as the OCR may take a moment.

Add OCR.md template

Add the OCR.md template to your Templater templates folder.

---
creation date: <% tp.file.creation_date() %>
tags: [OCR]
---

<%*
const supportedFileTypes = ["jpeg", "jpg", "png"];
const images = this.app.vault.getFiles().filter((item) => supportedFileTypes.indexOf(item.extension) >= 0)
const target = await tp.system.suggester((item) => item.path, images, true);
const out = await tp.user.ocr({ocr_input: target.path});
%><%* tR += out %>

Usage

1. Invoke Templater: Create new note from template Pallet command
2. Choose OCR
3. Choose an image file in your vault. This may take a few seconds.

Video Demonstration

[ccchan234]

hi,
as the OP stated in the other thread,
this is NOT working in newer templater e.g. v.1.12 (see bottom)

could someone UPDATE it,
or CHANGE to use capture2text? thanks

PLEASE

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/basic-ocr-in-obsidian/18087

[ccchan234]

1. this thing is not use-able.

2. tell you more, gpt4 can help layman do programming, non use-able things like this should no longer exist

[brandondrew]

If you have so much confidence that it can be easily fixed with GPT4, why not fix it?
It will accomplish much more than posting rude comments will.

[ccchan234]

If you have so much confidence that it can be easily fixed with GPT4, why not fix it? It will accomplish much more than posting rude comments will.

to me, capture2text solved my issue.
i havenot complained being bothered by this useless script s post

[achtdev]

Thanks, for sharing your solution, not.

[alberto-tamez]

jeez man

[ccchan234]

foss doesn't make me silence, neither.

[pmbauer]

good luck with that