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Is there an include or script would do OCR for a certain font?

Or would I have to make bitmaps of each character?

Thanks in advance.

Search in the scar manual for LoadCharsFromFont

TheBitmap := CreateBitmapMaskFromText('OCR', TheFontHere)
The fonts are found in SCAR >> Font >>

Thanks for the replies, I think I know how to use the font now.

Thanks!

whered the edit button go?
so my question is,
do i need to specify what size the font is, or bold or italic?

(suppose i wanted myriad pro bold size 28.5)

program FontTest;
const
  fontname      = 'Tahoma';
  size          = 16;
  bold          = false;
  italic        = false;
  underline     = false;
  strikethrough = false;
var
  font, bitmap, sizex, sizey: integer;
begin
  //Load the font into memory
  font := LoadCharsFromFont2(fontname, size, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough);

  //Generate a bitmap mask from the previously loaded font
  bitmap := CreateBitmapMaskFromText('Hello', font);

  //Display the font in the debug window
  GetBitmapSize(bitmap, sizex, sizey);
  DisplayDebugImgWindow(sizex, sizey);
  CopyCanvas(GetBitmapCanvas(bitmap), GetDebugCanvas, 0, 0, sizex, sizey, 0, 0, sizex, sizey);
end.

Thanks for the example script, but how would I go upon using scar to search for the font on a webpage , and return what it typed in plain text on the debug window?

suppose the page had Hello World in time new roman, but it was an image. How would i go about using SCAR to identify what the text says and show it in the debug window?