Text Recognition

After a successful scan or import of a document, you can get the detected text of the entire document or single pages.

Initialization

Initialize the Docutain Xamarin SDK as described here.

Get the detected text

In order to get the detected text of the entire document, call the following line of code:

Xamarin.Forms

using Docutain.SDK.Xamarin.Forms;

//...
//scan or import file
//...

var text = DocumentDataReader.GetText();

Xamarin.Android

using Docutain.SDK.Xamarin.Android;

//...
//scan or import file
//...

var text = DocumentDataReader.GetText();

Xamarin.iOS

using Docutain.SDK.Xamarin.iOS;

//...
//scan or import file
//...

var text = DocumentDataReader.GetText();

In order to get the detected text of a specific page, specify the page number:

Xamarin.Forms

using Docutain.SDK.Xamarin.Forms;

//...
//scan or import file
//...

var text = DocumentDataReader.GetText(1);

Xamarin.Android

using Docutain.SDK.Xamarin.Android;

//...
//scan or import file
//...

var text = DocumentDataReader.GetText(1);

Xamarin.iOS

using Docutain.SDK.Xamarin.iOS;

//...
//scan or import file
//...

var text = DocumentDataReader.GetText(1);