Is there a "compare" function to compare text vs a control?

Questions
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I’m still working through my first program with Mathematica.
As it goes I want to “TextRecognize” (successful there) and compare the text output vs a control. My first thought was to shorten the output to about 9 characters (enough for the purposes of a prototype) and at first I wanted to make a hard compare with “SmithWatermanSimilarity” or “NeedlemanWunschSimilarity” or “EditDistance”. Now I’m thinking I want to compare the output vs a small control list and have wolfram tell me which item my output is most like.

Example:

  • Out[36] Pog
  • is %36 most like {Dog, Pat, Cat}
  • Out[37] 1

Thoughts? Suggestions? Thanks guys (and ladies)

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Please report what

FullForm[TextRecognize[...yourimage...]]

displays.

Mathematica by default hides quotes around strings and when a function doesn’t understand an argument then by default it just returns the original expression. FullForm should help diagnose what is being returned.

3

Thanks Bill (it’s always neat meeting another Bill) I found the “StringTake” command and it worked perfectly. I updated my post with the next hurdle in my programming. :slight_smile:

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Nearest[{“Dog”, “Pat”, “Cat”}, “Pog”]

"Dog"
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Sander. Thank you. That’s Perfect.

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Note that Nearest uses the EditDistance to compare strings, but you can change that if you want (DistanceFunction). Good luck.