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OCR Templater Script for Obsidian

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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

Open Settings > Templater
Turn on Enable System Commands
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.

Usage

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

Video Demonstration

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OCR.md

creation date

tags

<% tp.file.creation_date() %>

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 %>

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