ocrText class

Object for storing OCR results

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Description

ocrText contains recognized text and metadata collected during optical character recognition (OCR). The ocr function returns the ocrText object. You can access the information contained in the object with the ocrText properties. You can also locate text that matches a specific pattern with the object’s locateText method.

Properties

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Text recognized by OCR, specified as an array of characters. The text includes white space and new line characters.

Bounding box locations, stored as an M-by-4 matrix. Each row of the matrix contains a four-element vector, [x y width height]. The [x y] elements correspond to the upper-left corner of the bounding box. The [width height] elements correspond to the size of the rectangular region in pixels. The bounding boxes enclose text found in an image using the ocr function. Bounding boxes width and height that correspond to new line characters are set to zero. Character modifiers found in languages, such as Hindi, Tamil, and Bangalese, are also contained in a zero width and height bounding box.

Character recognition confidence, specified as an array. The confidence values are in the range [0, 1]. A confidence value, set by the ocr function, should be interpreted as a probability. The ocr function sets confidence values for spaces between words and sets new line characters to NaN. Spaces and new line characters are not explicitly recognized during OCR. You can use the confidence values to identify the location of misclassified text within the image by eliminating characters with low confidence.

Recognized words, specified as a cell array.

Bounding box location and size, stored as an M-by-4 matrix. Each row of the matrix contains a four-element vector, [x y width height], that specifies the upper left corner and size of a rectangular region in pixels.

Recognition confidence, specified as an array. The confidence values are in the range [0, 1]. A confidence value, set by the ocr function, should be interpreted as a probability. The ocr function sets confidence values for spaces between words and sets new line characters to NaN. Spaces and new line characters are not explicitly recognized during OCR. You can use the confidence values to identify the location of misclassified text within the image by eliminating words with low confidence.

Methods

locateTextLocate text pattern

Examples

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Open Live Script
businessCard = imread('businessCard.png');
ocrResults = ocr(businessCard);
bboxes = locateText(ocrResults, 'MathWorks', 'IgnoreCase', true);
Iocr = insertShape(businessCard, 'FilledRectangle', bboxes);
figure; imshow(Iocr);

Open Live Script
     businessCard = imread('businessCard.png');
     ocrResults   = ocr(businessCard);
     bboxes = locateText(ocrResults, 'www.*com','UseRegexp', true);
     img    = insertShape(businessCard, 'FilledRectangle', bboxes);
     figure; imshow(img);

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See Also

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Introduced in R2014a

Computer Vision Toolbox Documentation

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