BUG: Successive OCR of multiple different images on a single Excalidraw page not working

[DavidFarago]

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Describe the bug Successive OCR of multiple different images on a single Excalidraw page not working.

In the Excalidraw plugin, I want to use the following workflow: 1) Create an Excalidraw page 2) Add an image to the page 3) OCR that image 4) goto 2

Is there a way to perform the above workflow, i.e. select a single image on the page that will be OCRed?

Even though I can mark an image when clicking the OCR button, but Excalidraw then always behaves erranously:

• either it wants to OCR the first image, saying "The drawing has already been processed ...."
• or it performs an OCR but neither updates the taskbone-ocr metadata field nor the clipboard

Is this a feature request or a bug? Your video and https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin/issues/1757 gave me the impression the Obsidian Excalidraw plugin can do this.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Paste first image to the excalidraw page, e.g.
2. Mark the image and OCR it via tools panel
3. Paste second image to the excalidraw page, e.g.
4. See error message and check contents of taskbone-ocr metadata field (it only contains "Issue: Bug report".

Expected behavior The OCR result from the second image gets appended to the taskbone-ocr metadata field.

Screenshots see above

Additional context As workaround, I deleted the taskbone-ocr metadata field. Then when I mark both images and OCR them via tools panel, OCR is performed and the result put in the clipboard, but a taskbone-ocr metadata field with the OCR result is not written. Furthermore, I sometimes successively extend the excalidraw page and fix OCR results, so this workaround would be awful since I would need to fix the same wrong OCR result multiple times.

[zsviczian]

Which command palette action are you using?

The first one will simply capture text from selected elements and copy it to the clipboard. From your description it sounds as if you are using the second. The third option should cover something similar as described in your workaround.

[DavidFarago]

Thanks for the fast reply. "Excalidraw: OCR selected elements..." works great. I need to access that through Ctrl-P as it is not available in the tool popup, right?

[zsviczian]

or you can assign an hotkey for that in Obsidian settings.