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Using Tesseract in C#

I have tesseract installed and I am using button click to set location of tesseract.exe file. I am also using another button click to set the location of the image file. Now I want the third button click to process the image with tesseract as I have stored their respective locations.
I am using some basic crude approach but it suits me.
My code is like:
private void B8_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
q = z + "\\" + "output.txt";
if (k != null)
{
Process pr = new Process();
pr.StartInfo.FileName = j;
pr.StartInfo.Arguments = k + " " + q;
pr.Start();
pr.WaitForExit();
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("No Image File Selected.");
}
var filetext = File.ReadAllText(q);
tb5.Text = filetext;
//File.Delete(q);
}
private void B10_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
openFileDialog1 = new OpenFileDialog();
DialogResult result = openFileDialog1.ShowDialog();
if (result == DialogResult.OK)
{
j = "\"" + openFileDialog1.FileName + "\"";
MessageBox.Show("Tesseract Location Set: " + j);
}
}
private void B9_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
openFileDialog1 = new OpenFileDialog();
DialogResult result = openFileDialog1.ShowDialog();
if (result == DialogResult.OK)
{
k = "\"" + openFileDialog1.FileName + "\"";
MessageBox.Show("Image File Location Set: " + k);
}
}
My 3-button click story so far:
I have successfully run the code with 1-button to set the tesseract.exe path, 2-button to set the image path, but the 3-button (see B-8) has an issue.
It extracts the text and stores into an "output.txt" file. But, I am not able to import this text into my textbox tb5 and then destroy this file.
The error I am getting is Exception thrown: 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' in mscorlib.dll
An unhandled exception of type 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in mscorlib.dll
Could not find file 'C:\Users\ambij\Desktop\try\output.txt'.
I don't understand this but there is actually output.txt file residing in the folder.

The following is for Tesseract 3.05.02 - May work in a later version
private void RunIt()
{
string tessDataPath = yourTessDataPath; // Your Tesseract Location Set
string imagePath = yourImagePath; // The Image File Location
string theTextFromTheImage = DoOCR(yourTessDataPath, yourImagePath);
// Some formatting may be required - OCR isn't perfect
MessageBox.Show(theTextFromTheImage);
}
private string DoOCR(string tessdataPath, string filePath)
{
string returnText = "";
using (var engine = new TesseractEngine(tessdataPath, "eng", EngineMode.Default))
{
// engine.SetVariable("tessedit_char_whitelist", "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"); // Only regular letters
string theVersion = engine.Version; // Optional, but useful
using (var img = Pix.LoadFromFile(filePath))
{
using (var page = engine.Process(img))
{
returnText = page.GetText();
}
}
}
return returnText;
}

Create a 7zip file for every subdirectory to a output path from input path in winforms

I have an input path that contains an unknown number of
subdirectories.
I want to use 7zip to zip each of them and the zip file will be in the selected output path.
Below is the concept of this program.
Below is the 7zip code I try to achieve the result, but no idea how to do.
string source = textBoxInput.Text + "\\*";
string target = Path.Combine(tBoxOutput.Text, source + DateTime.Now.ToString());
foreach (var folder in Directory.GetDirectories(source))
{
_sevenZip.CreateZipFile(folder, target);
}
Below is the 7z in command line I use to this program.
try
{
ProcessStartInfo zipProcess = new ProcessStartInfo();
zipProcess.FileName = #"E:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe";
zipProcess.Arguments = "a -t7z \"" + targetName + "\" \"" + sourceName + "\" -mx=9";
zipProcess.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Minimized;
Process zip = Process.Start(zipProcess);
zip.WaitForExit();
}
catch (Exception err)
{
Console.WriteLine(err.Message);
}

I remember helping you once with that question , i guess my answer was not to your satisfaction,
I've tried better this time:
this is the window:
these are the folders I used, just like in your example:
'choose source' and 'choose target' button opens a folder dialog
you were in the right direction, a for loop that runs over the subdirectories. i guess the hard part was getting the correct names. you just need to make sure that the target name would have a ".7z" extension.
and the code is fairly simple:
string zipProgramPath = #"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe";
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
public void CreateZipFile(string sourceName, string targetName)
{
try
{
ProcessStartInfo zipProcess = new ProcessStartInfo();
zipProcess.FileName = zipProgramPath; // select the 7zip program to start
zipProcess.Arguments = "a -t7z \"" + targetName + "\" \"" + sourceName + "\" -mx=9";
zipProcess.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Minimized;
zipProcess.UseShellExecute = true;
Process zip = Process.Start(zipProcess);
zip.WaitForExit();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
}
}
private void btnBrowseSource_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
using (var fbd = new FolderBrowserDialog())
{
DialogResult result = fbd.ShowDialog();
if (result == DialogResult.OK && !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(fbd.SelectedPath))
{
lblSource.Text = fbd.SelectedPath; //label next to the button
}
}
}
private void btnBrowseTarget_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
using (var fbd = new FolderBrowserDialog())
{
DialogResult result = fbd.ShowDialog();
if (result == DialogResult.OK && !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(fbd.SelectedPath))
{
lblTarget.Text = fbd.SelectedPath.ToString(); //label next to the button
}
}
}
private void btnExecute_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(lblSource.Text) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(lblTarget.Text))
{
MessageBox.Show("Choose input directory and output directory");
}
else
{
foreach (var folder in Directory.GetDirectories(lblSource.Text))
{
string folderName= Path.GetFileName(folder);
string targetName = Path.Combine(lblTarget.Text, folderName+ ".7z" );
CreateZipFile(folder, targetName);
}
}
}
so after choosing the right directories, and pressing execute
the result is as required :

Here is the PowerShell script will do the same. SourceFolders will have your test, test1, test2 folders. Compressed files will gets stored into C:\DestinationFolder. You just have run this script from PowerShell command prompt.
Import-Module Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
$sourcefolders = Get-ChildItem "C:\SourceFolders"
$outputfolder = "C:\DestinationFolder"
for ($i=0; $i -lt $sourcefolders.Count; $i++) {
$folderPathToCompress = $sourcefolders[$i].FullName
$compressFileName = $sourcefolders[$i].Name
"Compressing folder ="+$folderPathToCompress;
.\7z a -t7z $outputfolder\$compressFileName".7z" $folderPathToCompress
}

How to Restore MS Access database zip file in C# winForms?

I have this backup and restore code in C# using MS Access as its database. I finished doing the backup in zip format and now I want to restore the Zipped file. Any help will be much appreciated.
public void BackupDatabase(string dateToday)
{
string dbFileName = "dbCPS.accdb";
string CurrentDatabasePath = Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory , dbFileName);
string backTimeStamp = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(dbFileName) + "_" + dateToday + ".zip";// +Path.GetExtension(dbFileName);
string destFileName = backTimeStamp;// +dbFileName;
FolderBrowserDialog fbd = new FolderBrowserDialog();
if (fbd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
string PathtobackUp = fbd.SelectedPath.ToString();
destFileName = Path.Combine(PathtobackUp, destFileName);
//File.Copy(CurrentDatabasePath, destFileName, true);
using (var zip = new ZipFile())
{
zip.AddFile(dbFileName);
zip.Save(destFileName);
}
MessageBox.Show("Backup successful! ");
}
}
private void backupToolStripMenuItem1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
BackupDatabase(DateTime.Now.ToString("ddMMMyyyy_HH.mm"));
}
public void RestoreDatabase(string restoreFile)
{
string dbFileName = "dbCPS.accdb";
string pathBackup = restoreFile;
string CurrentDatabasePath = Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory, dbFileName);
File.Copy(pathBackup, CurrentDatabasePath, true);
MessageBox.Show("Restore successful! ");
}
private void restoreToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
openFileDialogBackUp.FileName = "dbCPS";
openFileDialogBackUp.InitialDirectory = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + #"Sauvegardes";
if (openFileDialogBackUp.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
RestoreDatabase(openFileDialogBackUp.FileName);
}
catch (Exception error)
{
MessageBox.Show(error.ToString());
}
}
This code extracts the zipped file but I dont know how to do the restore at the same time.
using (ZipFile zip = ZipFile.Read(restoreFile))
{
zip.ExtractAll(#"C:\Users\Desktop\backup");
}

According to the MSDN documentation here, you should be able to extract the zip file directly to the destination folder. Your existing "restore" code simply does a file copy to CurrentDatabasePath, so one would expect that a statement like...
System.IO.Compression.ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory(pathToZipFile, CurrentDatabasePath);
...would be all it takes. (I would test it myself, but ZipFile was apparently added in .NET 4.5 and my copy of Visual Studio is too old.)

Image renaming program in C#/.NET

I am working on a .NET program that is intended to iterate through a selected directory and allow the renaming of image files after displaying the images. I feel through my code that around 98% of the program is done, but I used a while loop to wait for the pressing of a button so as to allow for the renaming of the image file. Yet, the while loop freezes the program every time the while loop is iterated.
How can I either system("pause"); like in C++ to have the while loop pause without freezing the program and creating an infinite loop or how can I have the while loop paused automatically until a button is pressed?
Here is a tidbit of the code for the loop:
paused = true;
bool X = false;
label2.Text = "please choose a file name and press next";
//while statement
while (X == false)
{
if (paused == false)
{
//Renames filename
string newFileName = filenameTextbox.Text;
//Adds filename to selected directory where user wishes to send file to
string outputFile = destinationDirectory + "\\" + intCounter + fileNameOfficial;
//Pause statement to move to next operand..
//Copies post iterated file to selected directory
File.Copy(inputFile, outputFile, true);
X = true;
}
}
The code in its entirety is below.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections;
namespace recursionBitches
{
public partial class fileSorter : Form
{
bool paused = true;
public fileSorter()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void browseFrom_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Warning dialouge for selecting a large file.
MessageBox.Show("Warning, before selecting the origination file, it is important to note that choosing too large of a directory (for example, my documents or 'C://') more than likely will cause this program to freeze. ");
MessageBox.Show("You have been warned");
//Choose the originating dir path. This dir path is to be later sorted using recursion.
//Once the originating dir path is chosen, it is added to the label above the button.
if (fromBrowse.ShowDialog(
) == DialogResult.OK)
{
this.originationLabel.Text = fromBrowse.SelectedPath;
}
}
private void browseTo_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Choose the send to dir path. This dir path is to later have the files that are sorted sent to it.
//Once the to dir path is chosen, it is added to the label above the button.
if (toBrowse.ShowDialog(
) == DialogResult.OK)
{
this.sendingLabel.Text = toBrowse.SelectedPath;
}
}
private void sortButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string fileExtension = "*" + fileExtensionTextbox.Text;
//Check from path to ensure they are set to a user defined path.
int intCounter = 1;
if (originationLabel.Text != "From")
{
//Check to path to ensure it is set to a user defined path.
if (sendingLabel.Text != "To")
{
//Recursion stuff...
string sourceDirectory = fromBrowse.SelectedPath;
string destinationDirectory = toBrowse.SelectedPath;
//Sends origination path to function ae this is a function call. its num = 8675309... I think its name is Jenny.
recursiveRecursion(sourceDirectory, destinationDirectory, fileExtension, intCounter);
}
else
{
//Message box that says it is required to
MessageBox.Show("You dun goofed");
}
}
else
{
//Yup, it's a message box.
//That was an unhelpful comment....
/Aalmost as unhelpful as this comment
// This is what happens when I program stoned.
MessageBox.Show("You dun goofed");
}
//Grabs the path of the originating directory.
//After the originating directory path is choosen, send the path to a recursion function
//which will search the folders and sort the files in the dir. path.
}
private void originationLabel_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("Silly user, I am a label. I dont even click");
}
private void sendingLabel_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("Silly user, I am a label. I dont even click");
}
//Recursion function which grabs the directory path, uses a foreach loop to iterate through the files.
//Whilst each file is iterated through, have the recursive function select the files by extension and copy
//the files to another directory chosen by the user.
private void recursiveRecursion(string sourceDirectory, string destinationDirectory, string fileExtension, int intCounter)
{
//Select files Path and stuff
string[] filenames = Directory.GetFiles(sourceDirectory, fileExtension);
//foreach (string directoryName in directoryNames)
string[] directoryNames = Directory.GetDirectories(sourceDirectory);
//dir is the file name, as in for each file name in directory do the thing in this recursion loop thingy.
foreach (string fileName in filenames)
{
try
{
if (File.Exists(fileName))
{
//Don't use recursion. It is a file
//copy files here and stuff.
intCounter++;
//For the destination file ae dir2 to work, I need to get the file name from the file path.
//Currently dir is the file path.
//Enter code here to get the file name from the file path.
//Displays on label name of the file.
this.filesortTextbox.Text = "the file being copied is " + fileName;
//Gets filename from path
string fileNameOfficial = Path.GetFileName(fileName);
//Enters text of filename into filename textbox
filenameTextbox.Text = fileNameOfficial;
//For copying purposes, adds filename to originating directory path.
string inputFile = sourceDirectory + "\\" + fileNameOfficial;
//Assigns image from the origination directory.
Image img = Image.FromFile(inputFile);
// Shows image in the image viewer...
iteratedPicturebox.Image = img;
iteratedPicturebox.Width = img.Width;
iteratedPicturebox.Height = img.Height;
//Allows the user to change file name, after changing filename allows
//user to go to next file to rename. This is awesome for files...
paused = true;
bool X = false;
label2.Text = "Please choose a file name and press next.";
//while statement
while (X == false)
{
if (paused == false)
{
//Renames filename
string newFileName = filenameTextbox.Text;
//Adds filename to selected directory where user wishes to send file to.
string outputFile = destinationDirectory + "\\" + intCounter + fileNameOfficial;
//Pause statement to move to next operand..
//Copies post iterated file to selected directory.
File.Copy(inputFile, outputFile, true);
X = true;
}
}
}
else
{
//This really has an unknown pourpose, admittably keeping here for good luck...
Console.WriteLine("{0} is not a valid file or directory.", fileName);
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
//What process failed you ask? Good question mate.
Console.WriteLine("The process failed: {0}", e.ToString());
}
}
//Long story short for each directory contained in the list of directories.
//Do the stuff listed in the foreach statement.
foreach (string directoryName in directoryNames)
{
try
{
if (Directory.Exists(directoryName))
{
//If this is a directory, send the thing through itself.
// MessageBox.Show("now going through the "+ directoryName + " directory");
recursiveRecursion(directoryName, destinationDirectory, fileExtension, intCounter);
this.directoryIterated.Text = "The Current Directory The Files Are being copied from is " + directoryName;
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine("The process failed: {0}", e.ToString());
}
}
}
private void fileExtensionTextbox_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
private void label1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
private void directoryIterated_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("I am a label. I don't even click");
this.directoryIterated.Text = "You pressed me.";
}
private void kill_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Close();
}
private void filesortTextbox_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("I am a label. I don't even click.");
this.directoryIterated.Text = "You pressed me.";
}
private void iteratedPicturebox_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("I am a picture box, I don't even click.");
}
private void nextButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (paused == false)
{
paused = true;
}
else
{
paused = false;
}
}
}
}

Consider using a BackgroundWorker for your processing loop. This allows you to process this on the background thread and won't freeze your main UI thread (which is what is happening)

Rather than trying to stop execution, I would display a dialog box:
Create form eg: FileRenameDialog.
Add public properties to form you can use to set From: text, etc.
Create instance of form. eg: FileRenameDialog reuseme
Whenever the user needs to make a selection, populate the text in the dialog. eg: reuseme.Source = "The current file being copied...";
Display the dialog to the user as modal eg: var dlgResult = reuseme.ShowDialog(this);
Do what you need to with the result eg: if (dlgResult == DialogResult.OK) {...do stuff with the properties of reuseme...}

C# Windows Forms - Select and Copy Multiple Files w MultiSelect, OpenFileDialog, & FileBrowserDialog

I'm developing a WinForms application using C# with an OpenFileDialog and FileBrowserDialog and I'd like to:
Enable selection of multiple xls files.
After selection is made, Display selected xlsx filenames in textbox
Copy the selected files to a separate directory Consolidated
How can I accomplish this?

Here is sample code:
OpenFileDialog od = new OpenFileDialog();
od.Filter = "XLS files|*.xls";
od.Multiselect = true;
if (od.ShowDialog() == System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK)
{
string tempFolder = System.IO.Path.GetTempPath();
foreach (string fileName in od.FileNames)
{
System.IO.File.Copy(fileName, tempFolder + #"\" + System.IO.Path.GetFileName(fileName));
}
}

There is MultiSelect property of OpenFileDialog which you need to set to true to allow selecting multiple files.
Here is a code example from MSDN which allows the user to select a multiple number of images and display them in PictureBox controls on a Form:
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
InitializeOpenFileDialog();
}
private void InitializeOpenFileDialog()
{
// Set the file dialog to filter for graphics files.
this.openFileDialog1.Filter =
"Images (*.BMP;*.JPG;*.GIF)|*.BMP;*.JPG;*.GIF|" +
"All files (*.*)|*.*";
// Allow the user to select multiple images.
this.openFileDialog1.Multiselect = true;
this.openFileDialog1.Title = "My Image Browser";
}
private void selectFilesButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
DialogResult dr = this.openFileDialog1.ShowDialog();
if (dr == System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK)
{
// Read the files
foreach (String file in openFileDialog1.FileNames)
{
// Create a PictureBox.
try
{
PictureBox pb = new PictureBox();
Image loadedImage = Image.FromFile(file);
pb.Height = loadedImage.Height;
pb.Width = loadedImage.Width;
pb.Image = loadedImage;
flowLayoutPanel1.Controls.Add(pb);
}
catch (SecurityException ex)
{
// The user lacks appropriate permissions to read files, discover paths, etc.
MessageBox.Show("Security error. Please contact your administrator for details.\n\n" +
"Error message: " + ex.Message + "\n\n" +
"Details (send to Support):\n\n" + ex.StackTrace
);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// Could not load the image - probably related to Windows file system permissions.
MessageBox.Show("Cannot display the image: " + file.Substring(file.LastIndexOf('\\'))
+ ". You may not have permission to read the file, or " +
"it may be corrupt.\n\nReported error: " + ex.Message);
}
}
}

Combining both answers, here's the code I came up with to:
Enabling the user to Select Multiple XLSX Files (using MultiSelect, OpenFileDialog, this.OpenFileDialog Properties & FileBrowserDialog)
After selection is made, Display Selected XLSX Filenames in Textbox (by setting textBoxSourceFiles.Text value to sourceFileOpenFileDialog.FileNames)
Copy the Selected Files to a separate Consolidated directory (using foreach loop, System.IO.File.Copy, System.IO.Path.GetFileName, sourceFileOpenFileDialog.FileName)
private void sourceFiles_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Stream myStream;
OpenFileDialog sourceFileOpenFileDialog = new OpenFileDialog();
this.sourceFileOpenFileDialog.InitialDirectory = "i:\\CommissisionReconciliation\\Review\\";
this.sourceFileOpenFileDialog.Filter = "Excel Files (*.xls;*.xlsx;)|*.xls;*.xlsx;|All Files (*.*)|*.*";
this.sourceFileOpenFileDialog.FilterIndex = 2;
this.sourceFileOpenFileDialog.RestoreDirectory = true;
this.sourceFileOpenFileDialog.Multiselect = true;
this.sourceFileOpenFileDialog.Title = "Please Select Excel Source File(s) for Consolidation";
if (sourceFileOpenFileDialog.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
try
{
if ((myStream = sourceFileOpenFileDialog.OpenFile()) != null)
{
using (myStream)
{
// populates text box with selected filenames
textBoxSourceFiles.Text = sourceFileOpenFileDialog.FileNames;
}
} // ends if
} // ends try
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show("Error: Could not read file from disk. Original error: " + ex.Message);
}
} // ends if (sourceFileOpenFileDialog.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
} // ends public void sourceFiles_Click
private void consolidateButton_Execute_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string consolidatedFolder = targetFolderBrowserDialog.SelectedPath;
foreach (String file in sourceFileOpenFileDialog.FileNames)
{
try
{
// Copy each selected xlsx files into the specified TargetFolder
System.IO.File.Copy(sourceFileOpenFileDialog.FileName, consolidatedFolder + #"\" + System.IO.Path.GetFileName(sourceFileOpenFileDialog.FileName));
Log("File" + sourceFileOpenFileDialog.FileName + " has been copied to " + consolidatedFolder + #"\" + System.IO.Path.GetFileName(sourceFileOpenFileDialog.FileName));
}
} // ends foreach loop
} // ends void consolidateButton_Execute_Click