How to execute a third party utility on every file in a folder recursively?





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I use a CLI utility called tesseract-ocr. The tesseract-ocr's usage in the cmd is this: tesseract.exe imagename outputbase [options...] [configfile...] In my case I type: tesseract photo0043.jpg photo0043.txt -l Cyrillic The utility will take the file called photo0043.jpg and output its job into the file called photo0043.txt How to make a batch to run the utility on an entire directory recursively?










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  • This may be helpful - Software to batch OCR multiple image files to multiple text files using Tesseract?

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I use a CLI utility called tesseract-ocr. The tesseract-ocr's usage in the cmd is this: tesseract.exe imagename outputbase [options...] [configfile...] In my case I type: tesseract photo0043.jpg photo0043.txt -l Cyrillic The utility will take the file called photo0043.jpg and output its job into the file called photo0043.txt How to make a batch to run the utility on an entire directory recursively?










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  • This may be helpful - Software to batch OCR multiple image files to multiple text files using Tesseract?

    – user3169
    Feb 14 at 7:08














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I use a CLI utility called tesseract-ocr. The tesseract-ocr's usage in the cmd is this: tesseract.exe imagename outputbase [options...] [configfile...] In my case I type: tesseract photo0043.jpg photo0043.txt -l Cyrillic The utility will take the file called photo0043.jpg and output its job into the file called photo0043.txt How to make a batch to run the utility on an entire directory recursively?










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I use a CLI utility called tesseract-ocr. The tesseract-ocr's usage in the cmd is this: tesseract.exe imagename outputbase [options...] [configfile...] In my case I type: tesseract photo0043.jpg photo0043.txt -l Cyrillic The utility will take the file called photo0043.jpg and output its job into the file called photo0043.txt How to make a batch to run the utility on an entire directory recursively?







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  • This may be helpful - Software to batch OCR multiple image files to multiple text files using Tesseract?

    – user3169
    Feb 14 at 7:08



















  • This may be helpful - Software to batch OCR multiple image files to multiple text files using Tesseract?

    – user3169
    Feb 14 at 7:08

















This may be helpful - Software to batch OCR multiple image files to multiple text files using Tesseract?

– user3169
Feb 14 at 7:08





This may be helpful - Software to batch OCR multiple image files to multiple text files using Tesseract?

– user3169
Feb 14 at 7:08










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Use a .bat file with the
FOR /R command to loop through files and
recurse on subfolders.



Something like:



@echo off
Setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

For /R C:pathtofolder %%a in (*.jpg) Do (
Set filename=%%~na
tesseract "%%a" !filename!.txt -l Cyrillic
)


Warning: I have not tested this script. It needs some tweaking if you have
.jpg files in subfolders of the specified folder.






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  • I've surrounded the folder path and %%~na with double quotes and it worked but not for .jpg files in subfolders. Also, how to make it so that the output files are created in the same location where input files are because when I ran the batch everything was created in the root folder that was specified.

    – computationalprince
    Feb 11 at 21:26













  • You could add the target path in the script in front of !filename!.txt. Might need enclosing in double quotes.

    – harrymc
    Feb 12 at 12:04











  • This does the job for me if anybody is interested.. @echo off Setlocal enabledelayedexpansion For /R "C:pathtofolder" %%a in (*jpg) Do ( Set filename="%%~dpna" "tesseract" "%%a" !filename!.TESS -l Cyrillic )

    – computationalprince
    Feb 13 at 16:32














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Use a .bat file with the
FOR /R command to loop through files and
recurse on subfolders.



Something like:



@echo off
Setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

For /R C:pathtofolder %%a in (*.jpg) Do (
Set filename=%%~na
tesseract "%%a" !filename!.txt -l Cyrillic
)


Warning: I have not tested this script. It needs some tweaking if you have
.jpg files in subfolders of the specified folder.






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  • I've surrounded the folder path and %%~na with double quotes and it worked but not for .jpg files in subfolders. Also, how to make it so that the output files are created in the same location where input files are because when I ran the batch everything was created in the root folder that was specified.

    – computationalprince
    Feb 11 at 21:26













  • You could add the target path in the script in front of !filename!.txt. Might need enclosing in double quotes.

    – harrymc
    Feb 12 at 12:04











  • This does the job for me if anybody is interested.. @echo off Setlocal enabledelayedexpansion For /R "C:pathtofolder" %%a in (*jpg) Do ( Set filename="%%~dpna" "tesseract" "%%a" !filename!.TESS -l Cyrillic )

    – computationalprince
    Feb 13 at 16:32


















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Use a .bat file with the
FOR /R command to loop through files and
recurse on subfolders.



Something like:



@echo off
Setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

For /R C:pathtofolder %%a in (*.jpg) Do (
Set filename=%%~na
tesseract "%%a" !filename!.txt -l Cyrillic
)


Warning: I have not tested this script. It needs some tweaking if you have
.jpg files in subfolders of the specified folder.






share|improve this answer
























  • I've surrounded the folder path and %%~na with double quotes and it worked but not for .jpg files in subfolders. Also, how to make it so that the output files are created in the same location where input files are because when I ran the batch everything was created in the root folder that was specified.

    – computationalprince
    Feb 11 at 21:26













  • You could add the target path in the script in front of !filename!.txt. Might need enclosing in double quotes.

    – harrymc
    Feb 12 at 12:04











  • This does the job for me if anybody is interested.. @echo off Setlocal enabledelayedexpansion For /R "C:pathtofolder" %%a in (*jpg) Do ( Set filename="%%~dpna" "tesseract" "%%a" !filename!.TESS -l Cyrillic )

    – computationalprince
    Feb 13 at 16:32
















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Use a .bat file with the
FOR /R command to loop through files and
recurse on subfolders.



Something like:



@echo off
Setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

For /R C:pathtofolder %%a in (*.jpg) Do (
Set filename=%%~na
tesseract "%%a" !filename!.txt -l Cyrillic
)


Warning: I have not tested this script. It needs some tweaking if you have
.jpg files in subfolders of the specified folder.






share|improve this answer













Use a .bat file with the
FOR /R command to loop through files and
recurse on subfolders.



Something like:



@echo off
Setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

For /R C:pathtofolder %%a in (*.jpg) Do (
Set filename=%%~na
tesseract "%%a" !filename!.txt -l Cyrillic
)


Warning: I have not tested this script. It needs some tweaking if you have
.jpg files in subfolders of the specified folder.







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  • I've surrounded the folder path and %%~na with double quotes and it worked but not for .jpg files in subfolders. Also, how to make it so that the output files are created in the same location where input files are because when I ran the batch everything was created in the root folder that was specified.

    – computationalprince
    Feb 11 at 21:26













  • You could add the target path in the script in front of !filename!.txt. Might need enclosing in double quotes.

    – harrymc
    Feb 12 at 12:04











  • This does the job for me if anybody is interested.. @echo off Setlocal enabledelayedexpansion For /R "C:pathtofolder" %%a in (*jpg) Do ( Set filename="%%~dpna" "tesseract" "%%a" !filename!.TESS -l Cyrillic )

    – computationalprince
    Feb 13 at 16:32





















  • I've surrounded the folder path and %%~na with double quotes and it worked but not for .jpg files in subfolders. Also, how to make it so that the output files are created in the same location where input files are because when I ran the batch everything was created in the root folder that was specified.

    – computationalprince
    Feb 11 at 21:26













  • You could add the target path in the script in front of !filename!.txt. Might need enclosing in double quotes.

    – harrymc
    Feb 12 at 12:04











  • This does the job for me if anybody is interested.. @echo off Setlocal enabledelayedexpansion For /R "C:pathtofolder" %%a in (*jpg) Do ( Set filename="%%~dpna" "tesseract" "%%a" !filename!.TESS -l Cyrillic )

    – computationalprince
    Feb 13 at 16:32



















I've surrounded the folder path and %%~na with double quotes and it worked but not for .jpg files in subfolders. Also, how to make it so that the output files are created in the same location where input files are because when I ran the batch everything was created in the root folder that was specified.

– computationalprince
Feb 11 at 21:26







I've surrounded the folder path and %%~na with double quotes and it worked but not for .jpg files in subfolders. Also, how to make it so that the output files are created in the same location where input files are because when I ran the batch everything was created in the root folder that was specified.

– computationalprince
Feb 11 at 21:26















You could add the target path in the script in front of !filename!.txt. Might need enclosing in double quotes.

– harrymc
Feb 12 at 12:04





You could add the target path in the script in front of !filename!.txt. Might need enclosing in double quotes.

– harrymc
Feb 12 at 12:04













This does the job for me if anybody is interested.. @echo off Setlocal enabledelayedexpansion For /R "C:pathtofolder" %%a in (*jpg) Do ( Set filename="%%~dpna" "tesseract" "%%a" !filename!.TESS -l Cyrillic )

– computationalprince
Feb 13 at 16:32







This does the job for me if anybody is interested.. @echo off Setlocal enabledelayedexpansion For /R "C:pathtofolder" %%a in (*jpg) Do ( Set filename="%%~dpna" "tesseract" "%%a" !filename!.TESS -l Cyrillic )

– computationalprince
Feb 13 at 16:32




















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