Optical Character Recognition (OCR) .NET API

It is a standalone OCR API that enhances your .NET apps to perform OCR 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.
• Currently, it supports 26 European languages and Chinese.
• 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 whole image or only a specific portion of the image.
• Scan rotated images.
• Application of various noise removal filters to assist image recognition.
• Calculate the bounding boxes of lines, paragraphs, words.
• Get possible choices for each recognized character.
• Pass URI and recognize the image from it.
• Recognize multiple images in a folder, zip archive or in the list.
• Get result in JSON or XML format.
• Save results in text, DOCX, PDF, XLSX, XML, JSON formats

Aspose.OCR can recognize a large number of languages and all popular writing scripts, including texts with mixed languages.

Extended Latin alphabet

• Croatian
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Estonian
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Italian
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Romanian
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Spanish
• Swedish

Supported characters

Cyrillic alphabet

• Belorussian
• Bulgarian
• Kazakh
• Russian
• Serbian
• Ukrainian

Supported characters

Asian languages

• Chinese (more than 6,000 characters)

Load Images 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 4.6.1 and higher, .NET Core 2.0 and higher. Supports x64, x86, AnyCPU This includes support for Mono, Xamarin and Client Profiles.

Get Started with Aspose.OCR for .NET

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.

Perform OCR on PNG Image via C# Code

// 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);

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