RoutineHub • Rob’s OCR

Rob’s OCR

Conduct OCR on any photo or file

Description

Top OCR Shortcut on RoutineHub

Rob’s OCR uses optical character recognition to recognize text from the camera, a photo, iCloud or Dropbox. The results are displayed on your screen, copied to your clipboard, and optionally, saved to a file.

New features:

Menus with images for easier shortcut navigation
OCR PDF documents

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ROB’s OCR can also be integrated into your own shortcuts to give them OCR capabilities.

Rob’s OCR requires a free personal api key from OCR.Space. The api key will be saved in a small file in your iCloud.

You will be prompted to enter your api key the first time the Shortcut runs. If you do not have one, the Shortcut will guide you through the process to get the api key.

Latest Release Notes

3.1 - July 13, 2020, 2:06 a.m.

- Added OCR of PDFs
- Bug fixes

Past versions

Feedback

@jdgallant

I'm trying to use this for the first time and it's giving me an error that the file doesn't exist. Does it not create the file automatically? I did acquire the API as mentioned in the shortcut.
Reply · 1 year, 8 months ago

@robric18 Author

@jdgallant - you need to to copy the api key into the box that pops up. The Shortcut should then create the file for you.
Reply · 1 year, 8 months ago

@gsmcintyre

Just to be clear, do you mean we need an API key from ocr.space? Your description says “space.ocr”.
Reply · 1 year, 4 months ago

@robric18 Author

That is correct. Good catch.
Reply · 1 year, 4 months ago

@dastefster

FYI: just tried to sign up for an API key via the shortcut-generated html page, but kept getting a “too many requests from this email please try again later“ error. After trying multiple emails, I just went to their website & was able to register so it seems like the issue is related to the shortcut.
Reply · 1 year, 1 month ago

@dastefster

Update: can’t seem to get it to work. No matter what image I pass into or select from the shortcut the “Show result“ action is blank—even with a screenshot of just text?
Reply · 1 year, 1 month ago

@robric18 Author

@dastefster, sometimes the API goes down for a while. Have you tried it again this morning to see if it works now? If it is still not working, I recommend deleting the api key file in your shortcuts folder and re-entering the API. If that still doesn’t work, can you try running it from the edit view and let me know if it is stalling at a certain point (and if so which one)?
Reply · 1 year, 1 month ago

@dastefster

I deleted and reentered the API keyAnd tried it again with several different images, but am still having the same issue. I ran it several times from the edit view and it doesn't seem to be hanging anywhere. Iit runs rather fast until reaching the show result action, Which is always blank
Reply · 1 year, 1 month ago

@robric18 Author

Do you have a Twitter or Reddit account I can DM you at to discuss further?
Reply · 1 year, 1 month ago

@dastefster

sure! My handle is dastefster on both
Reply · 1 year ago