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How use Progress Tracking

by Chaknith Bin

IronOCR provides an event for subscribing to track the progress of the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) reading operation. These properties offer valuable information about the progress, duration, and completion status of the OCR job, enabling applications to effectively monitor and report on the OCR process.

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Progress Tracking Example

The OcrProgress event can be subscribed to receive progress updates on the reading process. The event will pass an instance containing information about the progress of the OCR job, such as the start time, total pages, progress as a percentage, duration, and end time. Let's use the following document as our sample: "Experiences in Biodiversity Research: A Field Course" by Thea B. Gessler, Iowa State University.

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using IronOcr;
using System;

var ocrTesseract = new IronTesseract();

// Subscribe to OcrProgress event
ocrTesseract.OcrProgress += (_, ocrProgressEventsArgs) =>
{
    Console.WriteLine("Start time: " + ocrProgressEventsArgs.StartTimeUTC.ToString());
    Console.WriteLine("Total pages number: " + ocrProgressEventsArgs.TotalPages);
    Console.WriteLine("Progress(%) | Duration");
    Console.WriteLine("    " + ocrProgressEventsArgs.ProgressPercent + "%     | " + ocrProgressEventsArgs.Duration.TotalSeconds + "s");
    Console.WriteLine("End time: " + ocrProgressEventsArgs.EndTimeUTC.ToString());
    Console.WriteLine("----------------------------------------------");
};

using var input = new OcrInput();
input.LoadPdf("Experiences-in-Biodiversity-Research-A-Field-Course.pdf");

// Progress events will fire during the read operation
var result = ocrTesseract.Read(input);

Imports IronOcr
Imports System

Private ocrTesseract = New IronTesseract()

' Subscribe to OcrProgress event
Private ocrTesseract.OcrProgress += Sub(underscore, ocrProgressEventsArgs)
	Console.WriteLine("Start time: " & ocrProgressEventsArgs.StartTimeUTC.ToString())
	Console.WriteLine("Total pages number: " & ocrProgressEventsArgs.TotalPages)
	Console.WriteLine("Progress(%) | Duration")
	Console.WriteLine("    " & ocrProgressEventsArgs.ProgressPercent & "%     | " & ocrProgressEventsArgs.Duration.TotalSeconds & "s")
	Console.WriteLine("End time: " & ocrProgressEventsArgs.EndTimeUTC.ToString())
	Console.WriteLine("----------------------------------------------")
End Sub

Private input = New OcrInput()
input.LoadPdf("Experiences-in-Biodiversity-Research-A-Field-Course.pdf")

' Progress events will fire during the read operation
Dim result = ocrTesseract.Read(input)

Information from the Event

ProgressPercent: Represents the progress of the OCR job as a percentage of pages completed. It ranges from 0 to 100.

TotalPages: Indicates the total number of pages being processed by the OCR engine.

PagesComplete: Specifies the number of pages where OCR reading has been fully completed. This count may increase gradually as pages are processed.

Duration: Represents the total duration of the OCR job, indicating the time taken for the entire process to complete. It's measured in TimeSpan format. This time is updated every time the event is triggered.

StartTimeUTC: Denotes the date and time when the OCR job started, represented in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) format.

EndTimeUTC: Represents the date and time when the OCR job was 100% completed in UTC format. This property is null while OCR is still in progress and gets populated once the OCR process is finished.

Chaknith Bin

Software Engineer

Chaknith is the Sherlock Holmes of developers. It first occurred to him he might have a future in software engineering, when he was doing code challenges for fun. His focus is on IronXL and IronBarcode, but he takes pride in helping customers with every product. Chaknith leverages his knowledge from talking directly with customers, to help further improve the products themselves. His anecdotal feedback goes beyond Jira tickets and supports product development, documentation and marketing, to improve customer’s overall experience.When he isn’t in the office, he can be found learning about machine learning, coding and hiking.