Where does ShellExecutor live in the IronOCR API?

ShellExecutor is a static class in the DynamicTesseract namespace, shipped in IronOcr.dll. It derives from System.Object and exposes a single static method, ExecuteCommand, used internally while configuring the native Tesseract engine.

What does the ExecuteCommand method do in C#?

ExecuteCommand launches the program named by fileName, passes it the supplied arguments, and waits for it to finish. The optional exitCode parameter sets the return code expected on success, defaulting to 0, and any other code is reported as a failure.

Class ShellExecutor

Inheritance

System.Object

ShellExecutor

Namespace: DynamicTesseract

Assembly: IronOcr.dll

Syntax

public static class ShellExecutor : Object

ShellExecutor is the internal helper IronOCR uses to run an external process while setting up or driving its native Tesseract tooling. It wraps the work of launching a command-line program and waiting for it to finish, so the surrounding loader code does not repeat process-handling boilerplate.

The type exposes one static method, ExecuteCommand, which takes the program to run as fileName, the command-line arguments to pass it, and an optional expected exitCode that defaults to 0. The call runs the process to completion and treats a return code other than the expected value as a failure, surfacing it to the caller. Because the class is static, there is nothing to instantiate. This is plumbing for the engine's native setup rather than a recognition API, so most projects never call it directly and instead work through IronOCR's higher-level reading methods. The IronTesseract how-to walks through configuring and running the engine.

Methods

ExecuteCommand(String, String, Int32)

Declaration

public static void ExecuteCommand(string fileName, string arguments, int exitCode = 0)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.String	fileName
System.String	arguments
System.Int32	exitCode