Optical Character Recognition (OCR) .NET API

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It is a standalone OCR API that enhances your .NET apps to perform the OCR operation on JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP & TIFF images for extraction of English, French, Spanish & Portuguese content.

Aspose.OCR for .NET not only provides the Optical Character Recognition engine but more. You can also apply Blur, Gaussian Blur, and Median filter to reduce noise before document recognition and can set the OcrEngine to ignore non-textual blocks, maintain correct text order during document text recognition & automatically correct spellings of the document text.

Image OCR API Features

Programmatically detect, identify and read characters from images.
Support English, French, Spanish and Portuguese text.
Detect and read popular font faces such as Arial, Times New Roman, Courier New, Tahoma, Calibri & Verdana.
Supports regular, bold, and italic font styles.
Scan the whole image or only a specific portion of the image.
Scan rotated images.
Application of various noise removal filters to assist image recognition.

Read Image Formats for OCR

Raster Formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF

Platform Independence

You can use Aspose.OCR for .NET to develop applications in any development environment that targets the .NET Framework 2.0 and higher. This includes support for Mono and Client Profiles.

Get Started

Are you ready to give Aspose.OCR for .NET a try? Simply execute Install-Package Aspose.OCR from Package Manager Console in Visual Studio to fetch the NuGet package. If you already have Aspose.OCR for .NET and want to upgrade the version, please execute Update-Package Aspose.OCR to get the latest version.

Execute the following code snippet to see how Aspose.OCR API performs with your own samples or simply check the GitHub Repository for other common usage scenarios.

Perform OCR on PNG Image via C# Code

// The path to the documents directory.
string dataDir = RunExamples.GetDataDir_OCR();

// Initialize an instance of AsposeOcr
AsposeOcr api = new AsposeOcr();

// Recognize image
string result = api.RecognizeImage(dataDir + "sample.png");

// Display the recognized text
Console.WriteLine(result);

Aspose.OCR for .NET