Everything you need to find Tesseract libraries for macOS, Windows and Linux and instructions to load and initialize them with the MBS plugin (OCR.Load, OCR.IsLoaded, OCR.Initialize).
Quick summary (tl;dr)
- macOS: Install via Homebrew (`brew install tesseract` + `brew install tesseract-lang` for extra languages) or download prebuilt libs (MBS offers lib bundles). Then call
MBS("OCR.Load"; "/opt/homebrew/lib/libtesseract.4.dylib") (or path where Homebrew installed libs).
- Linux (Debian/Ubuntu): Install libraries and language files with apt:
sudo apt-get install libtesseract5 tesseract-ocr-lang. Then call MBS("OCR.Load"; "libtesseract.so.5") (and load leptonica first if required).
- Windows: Use a community build/installer (UB-Mannheim and similar). Place DLLs in program folder and call
MBS("Process.SetCurrentDirectory"; "C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR") & MBS("OCR.Load"; "libtesseract-4.dll").
- Important: Tesseract library version must match tessdata files (wrong combinations can crash). When using Tesseract 4.x+ with MBS, prefer
OCR.Load to explicitly load newer runtimes.
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After installing the MBS FileMaker Plugin, register it to unlock licensed features and remove the trial dialogs. There are four ways to register — pick the one that fits your workflow.
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New in this prerelease of version 15.5 of the
MBS FileMaker Plugin:
- Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.102.299.
- Fixed Plugin.CustomFunctionIDs function to return correct IDs.
- Changed plugin information string in the FileMaker preferences dialog to include license information if it gets stored with StoreRegistration function.
- In our preferences dialog you can now paste the whole license string and we separate it to the five fields.
- Changed Phidget.Release to automatically call Phidget.Close internally if needed.
- Removed dependency to GLIBCXX 3.4.29 to make the plugin compatible again with older Linux versions.
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/
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New in this prerelease of version 15.5 of the
MBS FileMaker Plugin:
- Removed tesseract 3 support. Please use version tesseract 5.x.
- Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.102.298.
- Improved Text.HTMLtoStyledText function to handle underline and strikethrough better.
- Added UUID.TimeFromUUIDv7 function.
- Updated libarchive to version 3.8.2.
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/
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You may have a license for our MBS FileMaker Plugin, so you may be interested to use more XML features.
Since FileMaker has only built-in XSLT 1.0, you may enjoy the enhancements of XSLT 3.0 with way more options.
You can use the Saxon library in your projects with MBS Plugin to work on XML:
- XSLT 3.0 for transformations
- XQuery 3.1 for queries
- XSD 1.1 for document validation
- XPath 3.1 for navigation within documents
See our Saxon functions in the documentation.
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New in this prerelease of version 15.5 of the
MBS FileMaker Plugin:
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/
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Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch.
A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube.
First there is a talk from Rick Kalman about the new standby server feature in testing. Then in our Q&A we talk about various topics including DynaPDF.WebLink function and the Events functions for creating events and reminders in your calendar. Later we use WebView functions to click buttons on a webpage.
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Just one month until the EngageU conference, the biggest FileMaker developer conference in Europe this year with over 200 attendees!
ClickWorks and Square Moon continue to organize a pan-european conference for Claris FileMaker developers from all over the world.
EngageU - FileMaker Conference 9th - 11th of November 2025, Antwerp, Belgium
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New in this prerelease of version 15.5 of the
MBS FileMaker Plugin:
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/
You can subscribe to our FileMaker mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.
Did you know that macOS 26 (and iOS 26) come with a small local LLM from Apple?
Since it runs local there is no cost involved and no network access. So why not tap into this resource when available to enhance your FileMaker solution?
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New in this prerelease of version 15.5 of the
MBS FileMaker Plugin:
- Improved Trace to also log the layout you are on.
- Improved LDAP.Connect for Windows to remove ldap:// prefix from domain or IP as Windows doesn't like this.
- Fixed LDAP.Search to allow call with only 5 parameters.
- Fixed LDAP.Bind to remove ldaps:// or ldap:// prefixes on Windows.
- Fixed Plugin.RegisterFunction to handle optional parameters better and create temporary variables for the calculations.
- Enabled the remembering of column widths again.
- Improved clipboard converter to preserve image content.
- Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.102.297.
- Updated OpenSSL to version 3.5.2.
- Changed DynaPDF.Initialize und XL.Initialize to not check if you have a MBS license, so you can run this before our Register function.
- Deprecated CURL.SetOptionSSLFalseStart in CURLSMBS class.
- In CURL the Upload and Put flags are aliases. We do the same in the plugin now.
- Updated CURL to version 8.16.0.
- Updated expat library to version 2.7.3.
- Added Phidget.WriteRFID function.
- Updated to Xcode 26.0.
- Fixed a problem on Windows with ZipFile.CompressFiles function not working.
- Fixed a problem on Windows with DynaPDF.Table.Release causing trouble with mutex.
- Added RSA.SignPSS and RSA.VerifyPSS functions for 2048-bit RSA electronic signature with PSS padding and SHA-256.
- Improved field finding functions in DynaPDF to better find fields.
- Updated jsoncons library to version 1.4.2.
- Added FoundationModels functions.
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/
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