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ignamart03's avatar
ignamart03
2 months ago

Offline OCR Functionality

Hello everyone,

I hope you are all doing well.

I am currently working on a project that relies on OCR (Optical Character Recognition) capabilities within TestComplete. As far as I know, TestComplete uses an online service for OCR, which requires an active internet connection.

Due to certain constraints in my project, I am looking for a way to use OCR functionality offline. I would like to know if there is any existing (legacy) method to configure TestComplete for offline OCR, or if there are any plans to introduce this feature in the future.

  • scot1967's avatar
    scot1967
    Regular Contributor
    2 months ago

    There isn't anything that I am aware of.  The only similar offline possibility would be the image comparison tool.  However it only does a pixel by pixel compare to check for an image match.  

  • rraghvani's avatar
    rraghvani
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    2 months ago

    Your best option is to get in contact with SmartBear Support.

  • Hassan_Ballan's avatar
    Hassan_Ballan
    Regular Contributor
    2 months ago

    Probably you can investigate the use of third party offline OCR such as "Tesseract OCR (Open-source)" or something else and write code to utilize in your project.

  • JDR2500's avatar
    JDR2500
    Frequent Contributor
    2 months ago

    My understanding is that the OCR capabilities in the IQ-Add in all require an active internet connection.  Let us know if you find another option that works.