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Write a new line of code every time the program enters a new string to the file C#

Console.WriteLine("What name would you like to be known as?");
string usernameforscore = Console.ReadLine();
string path = *filepath*;
File.WriteAllText(path, (usernameforscore + " " + classicscore + Environment.NewLine));
So this code is part of a game I'm making for a project, at the end of the game when you fail, I want it to save both a person's chosen username and their score (a variable saved somewhere else). I have got it to save the two to the file, however each time someone enters a new set of data, the file is overridden and only the new data is displayed.
I would like it to write a line with the name and score, then next time the code is run, it will display the new name and score on the next line, creating a high score list.
I'm using visual studio with a console program on C#
Apologies if this is a duplicate, couldn't seem to find a fix myself.

There is a method AppendAllText() rather than WriteAllText(), as below:
File.AppendAllText(#"c:\Path\filename.txt", "the text to append" + Environment.NewLine);

You can use the below method UpdateTextFile to save data to a text file.
public static void UpdateTextFile(string fileName, string content, bool doNotOverwrite = true, bool writeNewLine = true)
{
StreamWriter file = null;
using (file = new System.IO.StreamWriter(#"D:\" + fileName + ".txt", doNotOverwrite))
{
if (writeNewLine)
{
file.WriteLine(content);
}
else
file.Write(content);
file.Close();
}
}
Example of calling the method:
UpdateTextFile("FileName", "file-content", true, false);
Hope it helps.

how to place text inside quotes

I'm trying to add your computer name to the name of the plugin text. Here is a example:
I have a path which detects file which is here:
string pypath = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData)
+ "\\elfen_encore\\extra_maya\\mayaplugins\\CoDMayaTools.py";
From there I use this code to access a string in there
public void changepy()
{
if (File.Exists(pypath))
{
{
string quotes = "\"\"";
string name = System.Environment.MachineName;
string text = File.ReadAllText(pypath);
text = text.Replace("\"Call of Duty Tools\"", quotes + name);
File.WriteAllText(pypath, text + name);
}
MessageBox.Show("Changed ");
}
else
{
}
Then this is the file it should change to computer name :
OBJECT_NAMES = {'menu' : ["CoDMayaToolsMenu",
"Call of Duty Tools", None, None, None],
"CoDMayaToolsMenu" is the issue; I want to replace that with the users computer name but as you can see its in quotes and I am having huge issues on trying to get the text in the quotes. How can I solve it?

Is this what you are trying to do?
text = text.Replace("\"Call of Duty Tools\"", "\"" + name + "\"");
If not, please specify a little bit more your question or your desired output.

If you're leaving the quotes anyway, why not this approach? ... It's a bit unclear if this is what you're trying to accomplish?
public void changepy()
{
if (File.Exists(pypath))
{
string machineName = System.Environment.MachineName;
string content = File.ReadAllText(pypath);
content = content.Replace("Call of Duty Tools", machineName);
File.WriteAllText(pypath, content);
MessageBox.Show("Changed");
}
else
{
}
}

.Net.Mail new line

I am using .Net.Mail to send text messages but I am having trouble inserting a new line. I have searched the internet, including StackOverflow, for a method to do this. I have found several but non of them work. I am using StringBuilder to build the body of the message but appending a new line or empty line does cause a new line to be inserted into the message. I have also tried "\n" and several other methods but nothing seems to work. I have added my code below. Does anybody know how I can do this.
Thank you in advance for any help that may be offered.
string cellPhone = reader.GetString(reader.GetOrdinal("CellPhone"));
string suffix = reader.GetString(reader.GetOrdinal("Suffix"));
StringBuilder body = new StringBuilder();
cellPhone = cellPhone.Trim().Replace(" ", "").Replace("-", "").Replace("(", "").Replace(")", "");
if (!suffix.StartsWith("#"))
{
suffix = "#" + suffix;
}
string address = cellPhone + suffix;
reader.Close();
EMail email = new EMail("mail.yyy.com");
email.IsHTML = true;
email.Subject = "Sales Lead from yyy.com";
email.Add_ToAddress(address, false);
body.AppendLine(" ");
body.AppendLine("Name: " + this.tbSalesLeadName2.Text + "EMail: mailto: " + this.tbSalesLeadEmail2.Text);
if (!this.chkSalesLeadEmail2.Checked) //&& (!this.hidCellPhoneProvider.Value.Equals("0", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase)))
{
body.AppendLine("Phone: " + this.tbSalesLeadPhone2.Text);
body.AppendLine("Cell Phone: " + this.tbSalesLeadCellPhone.Text);
}
body.AppendLine(" ");
body.AppendLine(" ");
body.AppendLine("Comments: " + this.tbSalesLeadComments2.Text);
body.AppendLine(" ");
body.AppendLine(" ");
body.AppendLine("***To respond start a new text thread with the cell phone number listed above");
email.Body = body.ToString();
email.From = "xxx#yyy.com";
email.Send_Mail();

email.IsHTML = true;
You say that your body is in HTML format, but it isn't.
You have two options to fix that:
Set IsHTML to false, and your line breaks should work.
Format your body as real HTML, i.e., use HtmlEncode for your data and <br> for your line breaks.

As you are using email.IsHTML = true;, You should be able to put tag in your string builder object.. The code would look like,
body.AppendLine(" <br/>");
body.AppendLine(" <br/>");
body.AppendLine("Comments: " + this.tbSalesLeadComments2.Text + "<br/>");
body.AppendLine(" <br/>");
body.AppendLine(" <br/>");
body.AppendLine("***To respond start a new text thread with the cell phone number listed above<br/>");
email.Body = body.ToString();

You've specified that the email is HTML. New lines are ignored in HTML.
To actually render a line break you need to use <br /> or some other equivalent.
If you don't actually have any HTML to render, then simply specify that the email is not an HTML email and new lines will be rendered as new lines.

Thank you for your advice. Please ignore my earlier comment. Your suggestion did work I just needed to add "\n" where I wanted a new line.
I really appreciate your help.

Tesseract OCR simple example

Hi Can you anyone give me a simple example of testing Tesseract OCR
preferably in C#.
I tried the demo found here.
I download the English dataset and unzipped in C drive. and modified the code as followings:
string path = #"C:\pic\mytext.jpg";
Bitmap image = new Bitmap(path);
Tesseract ocr = new Tesseract();
ocr.SetVariable("tessedit_char_whitelist", "0123456789"); // If digit only
ocr.Init(#"C:\tessdata\", "eng", false); // To use correct tessdata
List<tessnet2.Word> result = ocr.DoOCR(image, Rectangle.Empty);
foreach (tessnet2.Word word in result)
Console.WriteLine("{0} : {1}", word.Confidence, word.Text);
Unfortunately the code doesn't work. the program dies at "ocr.Init(..." line. I couldn't even get an exception even using try-catch.
I was able to run the vietocr! but that is a very large project for me to follow. i need a simple example like above.

Ok. I found the solution here
tessnet2 fails to load
the Ans given by Adam
Apparently i was using wrong version of tessdata. I was following the the source page instruction intuitively and that caused the problem.
it says
Quick Tessnet2 usage
Download binary here, add a reference of the assembly Tessnet2.dll to your .NET project.
Download language data definition file here and put it in tessdata directory. Tessdata directory and your exe must be in the
same directory.
After you download the binary, when you follow the link to download the language file, there are many language files. but none of them are right version. you need to select all version and go to next page for correct version (tesseract-2.00.eng)! They should either update download binary link to version 3 or put the the version 2 language file on the first page. Or at least bold mention the fact that this version issue is a big deal!
Anyway I found it.
Thanks everyone.

A simple example of testing Tesseract OCR in C#:
public static string GetText(Bitmap imgsource)
{
var ocrtext = string.Empty;
using (var engine = new TesseractEngine(#"./tessdata", "eng", EngineMode.Default))
{
using (var img = PixConverter.ToPix(imgsource))
{
using (var page = engine.Process(img))
{
ocrtext = page.GetText();
}
}
}
return ocrtext;
}
Info: The tessdata folder must exist in the repository: bin\Debug\

I was able to get it to work by following these instructions.
Download the sample code
Unzip it to a new location
Open ~\tesseract-samples-master\src\Tesseract.Samples.sln (I used Visual Studio 2017)
Install the Tesseract NuGet package for that project (or uninstall/reinstall as I had to)
Uncomment the last two meaningful lines in Tesseract.Samples.Program.cs:
Console.Write("Press any key to continue . . . ");
Console.ReadKey(true);
Run (hit F5)
You should get this windows console output

Try updating the line to:
ocr.Init(#"C:\", "eng", false); // the path here should be the parent folder of tessdata

I had same problem, now its resolved. I have tesseract2, under this folders for 32 bit and 64 bit, I copied files 64 bit folder(as my system is 64 bit) to main folder ("Tesseract2") and under bin/Debug folder. Now my solution is working fine.

In my case I had all these worked except for the correct character recognition.
But you need to consider these few things:
Use correct tessnet2 library
use correct tessdata language version
tessdata should be somewhere out of your application folder where you can put in full path in the init parameter. use ocr.Init(#"c:\tessdata", "eng", true);
Debugging will cause you headache. Then you need to update your app.config
use this. (I can't put the xml code here. give me your email i will email it to you)
hope that this helps

Here's a great working example project; Tesseract OCR Sample (Visual Studio) with Leptonica Preprocessing
Tesseract OCR Sample (Visual Studio) with Leptonica Preprocessing
Tesseract OCR 3.02.02 API can be confusing, so this guides you through including the Tesseract and Leptonica dll into a Visual Studio C++ Project, and provides a sample file which takes an image path to preprocess and OCR. The preprocessing script in Leptonica converts the input image into black and white book-like text.
Setup
To include this in your own projects, you will need to reference the header files and lib and copy the tessdata folders and dlls.
Copy the tesseract-include folder to the root folder of your project. Now Click on your project in Visual Studio Solution Explorer, and go to Project>Properties.
VC++ Directories>Include Directories:
..\tesseract-include\tesseract;..\tesseract-include\leptonica;$(IncludePath)
C/C++>Preprocessor>Preprocessor Definitions:
_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS;%(PreprocessorDefinitions)
C/C++>Linker>Input>Additional Dependencies:
..\tesseract-include\libtesseract302.lib;..\tesseract-include\liblept168.lib;%(AdditionalDependencies)
Now you can include headers in your project's file:
include
include
Now copy the two dll files in tesseract-include and the tessdata folder in Debug to the Output Directory of your project.
When you initialize tesseract, you need to specify the location of the parent folder (!important) of the tessdata folder if it is not already the current directory of your executable file. You can copy my script, which assumes tessdata is installed in the executable's folder.
tesseract::TessBaseAPI *api = new tesseract::TessBaseAPI();
api->Init("D:\tessdataParentFolder\", ...
Sample
You can compile the provided sample, which takes one command line argument of the image path to use. The preprocess() function uses Leptonica to create a black and white book-like copy of the image which makes tesseract work with 90% accuracy. The ocr() function shows the functionality of the Tesseract API to return a string output. The toClipboard() can be used to save text to clipboard on Windows. You can copy these into your own projects.

This worked for me, I had 3-4 more PDF to Text extractor and if one doesnot work the other one will ... tesseract in particular this code can be used on Windows 7, 8, Server 2008 . Hope this is helpful to you
do
{
// Sleep or Pause the Thread for 1 sec, if service is running too fast...
Thread.Sleep(millisecondsTimeout: 1000);
Guid tempGuid = ToSeqGuid();
string newFileName = tempGuid.ToString().Split('-')[0];
string outputFileName = appPath + "\\pdf2png\\" + fileNameithoutExtension + "-" + newFileName +
".png";
extractor.SaveCurrentImageToFile(outputFileName, ImageFormat.Png);
// Create text file here using Tesseract
foreach (var file in Directory.GetFiles(appPath + "\\pdf2png"))
{
try
{
var pngFileName = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(file);
string[] myArguments =
{
"/C tesseract ", file,
" " + appPath + "\\png2text\\" + pngFileName
}; // /C for closing process automatically whent completes
string strParam = String.Join(" ", myArguments);
var myCmdProcess = new Process();
var theProcess = new ProcessStartInfo("cmd.exe", strParam)
{
CreateNoWindow = true,
UseShellExecute = false,
RedirectStandardOutput = true,
RedirectStandardError = true,
WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Minimized
}; // Keep the cmd.exe window minimized
myCmdProcess.StartInfo = theProcess;
myCmdProcess.Exited += myCmdProcess_Exited;
myCmdProcess.Start();
//if (process)
{
/*
MessageBox.Show("cmd.exe process started: " + Environment.NewLine +
"Process Name: " + myCmdProcess.ProcessName +
Environment.NewLine + " Process Id: " + myCmdProcess.Id
+ Environment.NewLine + "process.Handle: " +
myCmdProcess.Handle);
*/
Process.EnterDebugMode();
//ShowWindow(hWnd: process.Handle, nCmdShow: 2);
/*
MessageBox.Show("After EnterDebugMode() cmd.exe process Exited: " +
Environment.NewLine +
"Process Name: " + myCmdProcess.ProcessName +
Environment.NewLine + " Process Id: " + myCmdProcess.Id
+ Environment.NewLine + "process.Handle: " +
myCmdProcess.Handle);
*/
myCmdProcess.WaitForExit(60000);
/*
MessageBox.Show("After WaitForExit() cmd.exe process Exited: " +
Environment.NewLine +
"Process Name: " + myCmdProcess.ProcessName +
Environment.NewLine + " Process Id: " + myCmdProcess.Id
+ Environment.NewLine + "process.Handle: " +
myCmdProcess.Handle);
*/
myCmdProcess.Refresh();
Process.LeaveDebugMode();
//myCmdProcess.Dispose();
/*
MessageBox.Show("After LeaveDebugMode() cmd.exe process Exited: " +
Environment.NewLine);
*/
}
//process.Kill();
// Waits for the process to complete task and exites automatically
Thread.Sleep(millisecondsTimeout: 1000);
// This works fine in Windows 7 Environment, and not in Windows 8
// Try following code block
// Check, if process is not comletey exited
if (!myCmdProcess.HasExited)
{
//process.WaitForExit(2000); // Try to wait for exit 2 more seconds
/*
MessageBox.Show(" Process of cmd.exe was exited by WaitForExit(); Method " +
Environment.NewLine);
*/
try
{
// If not, then Kill the process
myCmdProcess.Kill();
//myCmdProcess.Dispose();
//if (!myCmdProcess.HasExited)
//{
// myCmdProcess.Kill();
//}
MessageBox.Show(" Process of cmd.exe exited ( Killed ) successfully " +
Environment.NewLine);
}
catch (System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(
" Exception: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception " +
ex.ErrorCode + Environment.NewLine);
}
catch (NotSupportedException notSupporEx)
{
MessageBox.Show(" Exception: NotSupportedException " +
notSupporEx.Message +
Environment.NewLine);
}
catch (InvalidOperationException invalidOperation)
{
MessageBox.Show(
" Exception: InvalidOperationException " +
invalidOperation.Message + Environment.NewLine);
foreach (
var textFile in Directory.GetFiles(appPath + "\\png2text", "*.txt",
SearchOption.AllDirectories))
{
loggingInfo += textFile +
" In Reading Text from generated text file by Tesseract " +
Environment.NewLine;
strBldr.Append(File.ReadAllText(textFile));
}
// Delete text file after reading text here
Directory.GetFiles(appPath + "\\pdf2png").ToList().ForEach(File.Delete);
Directory.GetFiles(appPath + "\\png2text").ToList().ForEach(File.Delete);
}
}
}
catch (Exception exception)
{
MessageBox.Show(
" Cought Exception in Generating image do{...}while{...} function " +
Environment.NewLine + exception.Message + Environment.NewLine);
}
}
// Delete png image here
Directory.GetFiles(appPath + "\\pdf2png").ToList().ForEach(File.Delete);
Thread.Sleep(millisecondsTimeout: 1000);
// Read text from text file here
foreach (var textFile in Directory.GetFiles(appPath + "\\png2text", "*.txt",
SearchOption.AllDirectories))
{
loggingInfo += textFile +
" In Reading Text from generated text file by Tesseract " +
Environment.NewLine;
strBldr.Append(File.ReadAllText(textFile));
}
// Delete text file after reading text here
Directory.GetFiles(appPath + "\\png2text").ToList().ForEach(File.Delete);
} while (extractor.GetNextImage()); // Advance image enumeration...

Admittedly this is an older question when Tesseract 3 was the version available, but it came up in my search results while looking for a related issue and the question, and other answers, highlight the still valid issue of the difficulty of actually getting Tesseract installed, let alone configuring it to work correctly.
There is a far simpler solution (and using the updated Tesseract 5 engine) which does all the work for you, in IronOcr.
(Disclaimer: I do work for Iron Software, though I feel that others can benefit from this information, particularly as it relates to the question of using Tesseract OCR in C# which IronOcr excels at).
using IronOcr;
var Ocr = new IronTesseract(); // nothing to configure
Ocr.Configuration.WhiteListCharacters = "0123456789"; // If digit only
using (var Input = new OcrInput(#"example.tiff"))
{
OcrResult Result = Ocr.Read(Input);
foreach (var Page in Result.Pages)
{
// Page object
int PageNumber = Page.PageNumber;
string PageText = Page.Text;
int PageWordCount = Page.WordCount;
// null if we dont set Ocr.Configuration.ReadBarCodes = true;
OcrResult.Barcode[] Barcodes = Page.Barcodes;
System.Drawing.Bitmap PageImage = Page.ToBitmap(Input);
int PageWidth = Page.Width;
int PageHeight = Page.Height;
foreach (var Paragraph in Page.Paragraphs)
{
// Pages -> Paragraphs
int ParagraphNumber = Paragraph.ParagraphNumber;
String ParagraphText = Paragraph.Text;
System.Drawing.Bitmap ParagraphImage = Paragraph.ToBitmap(Input);
int ParagraphX_location = Paragraph.X;
int ParagraphY_location = Paragraph.Y;
int ParagraphWidth = Paragraph.Width;
int ParagraphHeight = Paragraph.Height;
double ParagraphOcrAccuracy = Paragraph.Confidence;
OcrResult.TextFlow paragrapthText_direction = Paragraph.TextDirection;
foreach (var Line in Paragraph.Lines)
{
// Pages -> Paragraphs -> Lines
int LineNumber = Line.LineNumber;
String LineText = Line.Text;
System.Drawing.Bitmap LineImage = Line.ToBitmap(Input); ;
int LineX_location = Line.X;
int LineY_location = Line.Y;
int LineWidth = Line.Width;
int LineHeight = Line.Height;
double LineOcrAccuracy = Line.Confidence;
double LineSkew = Line.BaselineAngle;
double LineOffset = Line.BaselineOffset;
foreach (var Word in Line.Words)
{
// Pages -> Paragraphs -> Lines -> Words
int WordNumber = Word.WordNumber;
String WordText = Word.Text;
System.Drawing.Image WordImage = Word.ToBitmap(Input);
int WordX_location = Word.X;
int WordY_location = Word.Y;
int WordWidth = Word.Width;
int WordHeight = Word.Height;
double WordOcrAccuracy = Word.Confidence;
if (Word.Font != null)
{
// Word.Font is only set when using Tesseract Engine Modes rather than LTSM
String FontName = Word.Font.FontName;
double FontSize = Word.Font.FontSize;
bool IsBold = Word.Font.IsBold;
bool IsFixedWidth = Word.Font.IsFixedWidth;
bool IsItalic = Word.Font.IsItalic;
bool IsSerif = Word.Font.IsSerif;
bool IsUnderLined = Word.Font.IsUnderlined;
bool IsFancy = Word.Font.IsCaligraphic;
}
foreach (var Character in Word.Characters)
{
// Pages -> Paragraphs -> Lines -> Words -> Characters
int CharacterNumber = Character.CharacterNumber;
String CharacterText = Character.Text;
System.Drawing.Bitmap CharacterImage = Character.ToBitmap(Input);
int CharacterX_location = Character.X;
int CharacterY_location = Character.Y;
int CharacterWidth = Character.Width;
int CharacterHeight = Character.Height;
double CharacterOcrAccuracy = Character.Confidence;
// Output alternative symbols choices and their probability.
// Very useful for spellchecking
OcrResult.Choice[] Choices = Character.Choices;
}
}
}
}
}
}

C# WebBrowser HTML with references to scripts and images

I'm writing a C# app using the WebBrowser control, and I want all content I display to come from embedded resources - not static local files, and not remote files.
Setting the initial text of the control to an embedded HTML file works great with this code inspired by this post:
browser.DocumentText=loadResourceText("myapp.index.html");
private string loadResourceText(string name)
{
Assembly assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
Stream stream = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(name);
StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(stream);
String myText = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
return myText;
}
As good as that is, files referred to in the HTML - javascript, images like <img src="whatever.png"/> etc, don't work. I found similar questions here and here, but neither is asking exactly what I mean, namely referring to embedded resources in the exe, not files.
I tried res://... and using a <base href='..." but neither seemed to work (though I may have not got it right).
Perhaps (following my own suggestion on this question), using a little embedded C# webserver is the only way... but I would have thought there is some trick to get this going?
Thanks!

I can see three ways to get this going:
1: write the files you need to flat files in the temp area, navigate the WebBrowser to the html file, and delete them once the page has loaded
2: as you say, an embedded web-server - herhaps HttpListener - but note that this uses HTTP.SYS, and so requires admin priveleges (or you need to pre-open the port)
3: like 1, but using named-pipe server to avoid writing a file
I have to say, the first is a lot simpler and requires zero configuration.

/// Hi try this may help u.
private string CheckImages(ExtendedWebBrowser browser)
{
StringBuilder builderHTML = new StringBuilder(browser.Document.Body.Parent.OuterHtml);
ProcessURLS(browser, builderHTML, "img", "src");
ProcessURLS(browser, builderHTML, "link", "href");
// ext...
return builderHTML.ToString();
}
private static void ProcessURLS(ExtendedWebBrowser browser, StringBuilder builderHTML, string strLink, string strHref)
{
for (int k = 0; k < browser.Document.Body.Parent.GetElementsByTagName(strLink).Count; k++)
{
string strURL = browser.Document.Body.Parent.GetElementsByTagName(strLink)[k].GetAttribute(strHref);
string strOuterHTML = browser.Document.Body.Parent.GetElementsByTagName(strLink)[k].OuterHtml;
string[] strlist = strOuterHTML.Split(new string[] { " " }, StringSplitOptions.None);
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
for (int p = 0; p < strlist.Length; p++)
{
if (strlist[p].StartsWith(strHref))
builder.Append (strlist[p].Contains("http")? strlist[p] + " ":
(strURL.StartsWith("http") ? strHref + "=" + strURL + " ":
strHref + "= " + "http://xyz.com" + strURL + " " ));
else
builder.Append(strlist[p] + " ");
}
builderHTML.Replace(strOuterHTML, builder.ToString());
}
}