com.qoppa.ocr
Class OCRBridge

java.lang.Object
  com.qoppa.ocr.OCRBridge

public class OCRBridge
extends Object

This class provides method to configure and use the Tesseract OCR engine. The OCR engine is implemented in native code, so this class provides methods to load the JNI libraries and tell the engine where data files are located.

Author:

Qoppa Software

Constructor Summary

OCRBridge()

Method Summary

static String	getTesseractDataPath() Gets the path to the Tesseract language data
static void	initialize(String tesseractLibraryPath, String tesseractDataPath) Initializes the Tesseract bridge with the path to the native libraries and the path to the language data files.
static boolean	isInitialized() Determines whether the OCRBridge is initialized.
static boolean	isLoaded() Determines whether the OCRBridge is successfully loaded.
static void	setTesseractDataPath(String tesseractDataPath) Set the path to the Tesseract language data

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

OCRBridge

public OCRBridge()

Method Detail

initialize

public static void initialize(String tesseractLibraryPath,
                              String tesseractDataPath)
                       throws OCRException,
                              IOException

Initializes the Tesseract bridge with the path to the native libraries and the path to the language data files. This method must be called before performing OCR. Once the Tesseract bridge is initialized, this method will throw an OCRException if the method is called again.

Parameters:

tesseractLibraryPath - the path to the native Tesseract libraries

tesseractDataPath - the path to the Tesseract language data files

Throws:

OCRException

IOException

isLoaded

public static boolean isLoaded()

Determines whether the OCRBridge is successfully loaded.

Returns:

true if successfully loaded, false otherwise

isInitialized

public static boolean isInitialized()

Determines whether the OCRBridge is initialized.

Returns:

true if initialized, false otherwise

getTesseractDataPath

public static String getTesseractDataPath()

Gets the path to the Tesseract language data

Returns:

this component's name

setTesseractDataPath

public static void setTesseractDataPath(String tesseractDataPath)

Set the path to the Tesseract language data

Parameters:

tesseractDataPath - path to the Tesseract language data