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PowerShell document automation across OfficeIMO's document, spreadsheet, presentation, PDF, Project, Access, EPUB, invoicing, and conversion engines.

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Release OfficeIMO-v3.5.3
Language: C# Updated: 2026-11-03
Cmdlet

Get-OfficeImageText

Module
PSWriteOffice
Inputs
System.String
Outputs
System.String OfficeIMO.Ocr.OcrResult
Source
GetOfficeImageTextCommand.cs:25 Edit on GitHub

Recognizes text in an image with automatic local OCR runtime discovery.

Syntax

Get-OfficeImageText
[-Language <TesseractOcrLanguage[]>]
[-NoLanguageDownload]
[-Options <TesseractOcrSessionOptions>]
[-PassThru]
[-Path] <String>
[-TessdataDirectory <String>]
[-TesseractLanguageExpression <String>]
[-TesseractPath <String>]
[<CommonParameters>]
#
Parameter set: All Parameter Sets

Examples

Read English text from an image.

Get-OfficeImageText -Path .\Scan.png

Returns recognized text and automatically uses an installed Tesseract runtime.

Read English and Polish text with recognition evidence.

Get-OfficeImageText -Path .\Scan.png -Language English, Polish -PassThru

Returns the full OCR result, including confidence, word geometry, provider, model, and diagnostics.

Parameters

-Language TesseractOcrLanguage[] optional
Friendly OCR languages. Supply more than one value to recognize multilingual content.
Possible values: English, Polish, Arabic, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
-NoLanguageDownload SwitchParameter optional
Do not download checksum-pinned curated language data when a requested language is missing.
-Options TesseractOcrSessionOptions optional
Advanced OfficeIMO OCR options. Convenience parameters override matching values.
-PassThru SwitchParameter optional
Return the complete OCR result instead of recognized text only.
-Path String requiredposition: 0pipeline: True (ByValue)aliases: FilePath
PNG, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, GIF, WebP, or JPEG 2000 image path.
-TessdataDirectory String optional
Explicit directory containing Tesseract trained-data files.
-TesseractLanguageExpression String optional
Advanced raw Tesseract expression for caller-installed custom trained-data models.
-TesseractPath String optional
Explicit Tesseract executable path. By default OfficeIMO securely discovers an installed runtime.

Common Parameters

This command supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutVariable, -OutBuffer, -PipelineVariable, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable.

For more information, see about_CommonParameters.