Help! Help! Problem with rasterOCR.GetRecognizedCharacters

Hi. Hit a problem with the method: rasterOCR.GetRecognizedCharacters(0)

It keeps telling me at the line in bold that “Object reference not set to an instance of an object.“

Can anyone help me please? Thanks!

Dim codecs As Codecs.RasterCodecs = New Codecs.RasterCodecs
Dim myImage As IRasterImage
Dim info As CodecsImageInfo
Dim oFile As System.IO.File
Dim oRead As System.IO.StreamReader

oRead = oFile.OpenText(fileName)
codecs.CodecsPath = "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\OCRService\bin"
info = codecs.GetInformation(oRead.BaseStream, True)
myImage = codecs.Load(oRead.BaseStream, 0, CodecsLoadByteOrder.RgbOrGray, 1, -1)

Dim rasterOCR As Ocr.RasterOcr = New Ocr.RasterOcr

rasterOCR.StartUp()

rasterOCR.SpellLanguageID = Leadtools.Ocr.RasterOcrLanguage.English
rasterOCR.RecognitionDataFileName = "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\OCRService\bin\testX.rdf"

Dim CodecsCommand As Codecs.RasterCodecs = New Codecs.RasterCodecs
Dim rasterPageCount As Integer
rasterPageCount = myImage.PageCount

Dim isLocked As Boolean
isLocked = RasterSupport.IsLocked(RasterSupportType.Ocr)
rasterOCR.AddPage(myImage, -1)

Dim pageCount As Integer
pageCount = rasterOCR.PageCount

'required

'auto locate zone
rasterOCR.ZoneParser = Leadtools.Ocr.RasterOcrPageParser.Auto
rasterOCR.FindZones(0)

Dim zoneCount0 As Integer
zoneCount0 = rasterOCR.GetZonesCount(0)
rasterOCR.Recognize(0, 1)

Dim i As Integer
Dim myString As String
Dim recognizedChars() As Ocr.RasterOcrRecognizedCharacters
recognizedChars = rasterOCR.GetRecognizedCharacters(0)

Hello,
I checked the code in a small VB.Net v14 project and its working fine.
Try the latest .Net patches, which you can get by sending your toolkit serial number to our support email address (don't post it here).
The build version of the LEADTOOLS .Net DLLs is 14.1.0.11
I am attaching the VB.NET project that I used in testing.

Thanks,
Maen Badwan
LEADTOOLS Technical Support

Edited by moderator Thursday, April 6, 2017 3:39:51 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified