RAII: *::GetHOCRText()

api/baseapi.cpp

@@ -1393,6 +1393,7 @@ static void AddBoxToTSV(const PageIterator* it, PageIteratorLevel level,
  * Image name/input_file_ can be set by SetInputName before calling
  * GetHOCRText
  * STL removed from original patch submission and refactored by rays.
+ * Returned string must be freed with the delete [] operator.
  */
 char* TessBaseAPI::GetHOCRText(int page_number) {
   return GetHOCRText(NULL, page_number);
@@ -1405,6 +1406,7 @@ char* TessBaseAPI::GetHOCRText(int page_number) {
  * Image name/input_file_ can be set by SetInputName before calling
  * GetHOCRText
  * STL removed from original patch submission and refactored by rays.
+ * Returned string must be freed with the delete [] operator.
  */
 char* TessBaseAPI::GetHOCRText(ETEXT_DESC* monitor, int page_number) {
   if (tesseract_ == NULL || (page_res_ == NULL && Recognize(monitor) < 0))

api/baseapi.h

@@ -591,13 +591,15 @@ class TESS_API TessBaseAPI {
    * monitor can be used to
    *  cancel the recognition
    *  receive progress callbacks
+   * Returned string must be freed with the delete [] operator.
    */
   char* GetHOCRText(ETEXT_DESC* monitor, int page_number);
 
   /**
    * Make a HTML-formatted string with hOCR markup from the internal
    * data structures.
    * page_number is 0-based but will appear in the output as 1-based.
+   * Returned string must be freed with the delete [] operator.
    */
   char* GetHOCRText(int page_number);
 

api/renderer.cpp

@@ -186,11 +186,10 @@ bool TessHOcrRenderer::EndDocumentHandler() {
 }
 
 bool TessHOcrRenderer::AddImageHandler(TessBaseAPI* api) {
-  char* hocr = api->GetHOCRText(imagenum());
+  const std::unique_ptr<const char[]> hocr(api->GetHOCRText(imagenum()));
   if (hocr == NULL) return false;
 
-  AppendString(hocr);
-  delete[] hocr;
+  AppendString(hocr.get());
 
   return true;
 }