Remove spaces when using OCR

1eyeams · May 21, 2019, 1:28pm

Is there a way to remove spaces in OCR extracted text? Whenever I use that and paste it the result has spaces at the beginning and the end.

ulrich · May 24, 2019, 6:59pm

DemoPDFTest_with_OCR has some examples for this.

In this macro you find this regular expression. It removes spaces and line breaks. Use it with ExecuteScript_Sandbox:

return ${q}.replace(/( |\n|\r)/gm, "")

ulrich · May 11, 2023, 12:02pm

Complete string replace test macro:

remove spaces

{
  "Name": "replace2",
  "CreationDate": "2023-5-11",
  "Commands": [
    {
      "Command": "store",
      "Target": "3 months \\n5 months \\none year",
      "Value": "a",
      "Description": ""
    },
    {
      "Command": "echo",
      "Target": "a=${a}",
      "Value": "blue",
      "Description": ""
    },
    {
      "Command": "executeScript_Sandbox",
      "Target": "return ${a}.replace(/( |\\n|\\r)/gm, \"\")",
      "Value": "i",
      "Description": "replace space and cr"
    },
    {
      "Command": "echo",
      "Target": "i=${i}",
      "Value": "green",
      "Description": ""
    }
  ]
}