text recognition (OCR) is switched off in Sikuli when using java

Question

Has anyone got the OCR function Region.text() working in Sikuli with java?

I keep getting this as output

Region.text: text recognition is currently switched off

and I can't find anyway to turn this feature on in java.

Solution 1

Sikuli has Settings class (org.sikuli.basics.Settings) that has options:

Settings.OcrTextSearch

Settings.OcrTextRead

Put them true and it should work :)

P.S. Actually I don"t know why are they by default false...

Solution 2

If you're using Sikulix IDE app for 1.1.x, go to Preferences, more options..., you should enable allow OCR.

Comments

[Josh Graham]

Thank you for giving the full path org.sikuli.basics.Settings

[Jeutnarg]

also make sure to have checked Pack 3 while installing - otherwise even this won't work