ocr

The ocr menu action opens the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) scanner. The user points the camera at printed text, selects a recognized text candidate, and the result is passed to the then chain.

Availability

The ocr action is only available in Insight Mobile (iOS and Android) starting with V36.2.

The OCR configuration is passed via actionValues using the ocr key. The available configuration properties are identical to the attribute configuration — see OCR for all options.

Payload

The result is available in the then chain as value.$payload.ocr:

Property	Type	Description
selectedText	string	The text candidate selected by the user.
record	object	(optional) The matched tree record, if findInTree was used.
text	string	The full raw text recognized by the OCR engine.
allLines	string[]	All lines recognized by the OCR engine before splitting or post-processing.
result	unknown	The raw result object returned by the native OCR plugin.

With scriptFilter

{
    "label": "OCR Filter",
    "icon": "icon-menu-square",
    "action": "ocr",
    "actionValues": [
        {
            "ocr": {
                "openSingleResult": true,
                "split": "words"
            }
        }
    ],
    "then": {
        "action": "scriptFilter",
        "actionValues": [
            {
                "clear": true,
                "js": "eqFilter('locationId', value.$payload.ocr.selectedText)"
            }
        ]
    }
}

For further details on OCR configuration see OCR.