Find Text

Segmentation > Advanced > Find Text

Finds text in the Current Image using optical character recognition (OCR) [1] and places boxes around each detected word.

*See the “Text” item under “Based on Companion” in Feature Measurements for information on how to extract recognized text strings

1. Character Set

Specifies the type of characters searched for

• All: Searches for all English characters

• Numbers: Searches for numbers only

2. Detection

Controls the minimum acceptable confidence of detected text. Increase the slider to increase the sensitivity of the text detection algorithm. (Recommended: 0.5)

References

[1] R. Smith. An Overview of the Tesseract OCR Engine, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2007) Vol 2 (2007), pp. 629-633.