AppleScriptObjC script to extract text from image files using the Vision framework.

ExtractImageText.scpt

use framework "Vision"

on getImageText(imagePath)
  	-- Get image content
	set theImage to current application's NSImage's alloc()'s initWithContentsOfFile:imagePath

 	 -- Set up request handler using image's raw data
	set requestHandler to current application's VNImageRequestHandler's alloc()'s initWithData:(theImage's TIFFRepresentation()) options:(current application's NSDictionary's alloc()'s init())
	
  	-- Initialize text request
  	set theRequest to current application's VNRecognizeTextRequest's alloc()'s init()
  
 	 -- Perform the request and get the results
	requestHandler's performRequests:(current application's NSArray's arrayWithObject:(theRequest)) |error|:(missing value)
	set theResults to theRequest's results()

  	-- Obtain and return the string values of the results
	set theText to {}
	repeat with observation in theResults
		copy ((first item in (observation's topCandidates:1))'s |string|() as text) to end of theText
	end repeat
	return theText
end getImageText

return getImageText("/Users/exampleUser/Documents/image.jpg")