OCR Templater Script for Obsidian

README.md

OCR Templater Script for Obsidian

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Templater Script for Obsidian.

Video Demonstration

Installation

Pre-requisites

• Obsidian
• Templater plugin.

Install the Tesseract OCR engine.

Prebuilt Binaries for Linux and Windows are available. On Mac: brew install tesseract.

Create Templater System Command for Tesseract

1. Open Settings > Templater
2. Turn on Enable System Commands
3. Add a User Function named ocr

/usr/local/bin/tesseract "$ocr_input" -

NOTE I reccomend increasing the Templater Timeout to 10s or more as the OCR may take a moment.

Add OCR.md template

Add the OCR.md template to your Templater templates folder.

Usage

1. Invoke Templater: Create new note from template Pallet command
2. Choose OCR
3. Choose an image file in your vault. This may take a few seconds.

Video Demonstration

OCR.md

creation date	tags
<% tp.file.creation_date() %>	OCR

<%* const supportedFileTypes = ["jpeg", "jpg", "png"]; const images = this.app.vault.getFiles().filter((item) => supportedFileTypes.indexOf(item.extension) >= 0); const target = await tp.system.suggester((item) => item.path, images, true); const out = await tp.user.ocr({ocr_input: target.path}); %><%* tR += out %>