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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​

Docutain's Capacitor SDK needs to be initialized prior to using any functionality of it as described here.

Get the detected text​

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

import { DocutainSDK } from '@docutain/capacitor-plugin-docutain-sdk'

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

try{
    const text = (await DocutainSDK.getText()).text
}catch (error) {
    console.error(error);
}

In order to get the detected text of a specific page, call the following line of code and specify the page number:

import { DocutainSDK } from '@docutain/capacitor-plugin-docutain-sdk'

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

try{
    const text = (await DocutainSDK.getTextPage({pageNumber: 1})).text
}catch (error) {
    console.error(error);
}