Photo to text for .NET

.NET OCR plug-in that reads the text from a photo taken with a camera or smartphone. Advanced pre-processing filters and powerful character detection algorithms can process rotated, distorted and noisy images without affecting OCR accuracy. The built-in spell checker finds and automatically corrects spelling errors to further improve recognition results.

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Features and benefits

Supports European, Cyrillic and Asian languages, including Chinese and Hindi.
Superior recognition speed and accuracy.
Can be used to build desktop, cloud and web applications for a number of platforms.
Detects and recognizes all popular typefaces and font styles.
Processes rotated, distorted and noisy images.
Reads all image formats you can get from a scanner or camera.
Bulk recognition of multiple images in a folder or archive.
Recognizes the whole image or selected areas only.
Detects and automatically corrects spelling errors.

Aspose.OCR for .NET

API reference Documentation Live demo

How to use the plug-in

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Install-Package Aspose.OCR

Converting a photo to text

Just take a photo of any text with your camera or smartphone and get a searchable and editable memo. All math, machine learning algorithms and neural networks are neatly packaged into a few easy to use API calls.

How to use the plug-in

Install Aspose.OCR package from Nuget or a locally downloaded file.
Load a scanned image into `OcrInput` object.
Create an instance of Aspose.OCR recognition engine.
Extract text from a photo.
Output the recognized text or save it to a file.

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using System;
 using Aspose.ocr;

namespace CSharpTutorials
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Aspose.OCR.Metered metered = new Aspose.OCR.Metered();
            metered.SetMeteredKey("PublicKey", "PrivateKey");
            // This code recognize image             
            Aspose.OCR.AsposeOcr recognitionEngine = new Aspose.OCR.AsposeOcr();
            // Add images to OcrInput object
            Aspose.OCR.OcrInput input = new Aspose.OCR.OcrInput(Aspose.OCR.InputType.SingleImage);
            input.Add("source1.png");
            input.Add("source2.jpg");
            // Set recognition areas detection mode
            Aspose.OCR.RecognitionSettings recognitionSettings = new Aspose.OCR.RecognitionSettings();
            recognitionSettings.DetectAreasMode = DetectAreasMode.PHOTO;
            // Recognize image
            List<Aspose.OCR.RecognitionResult> results = recognitionEngine.Recognize(input, recognitionSettings);
            foreach(Aspose.OCR.RecognitionResult result in results)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(result.RecognitionText);
            }
            //save as a file
            results[0].Save("result.txt", Aspose.OCR.SaveFormat.Text);
            //or
            Aspose.OCR.AsposeOcr.SaveMultipageDocument("result.pdf", Aspose.OCR.SaveFormat.Pdf, results);
        }
    }
}

System requirements

To use Photo to text for .NET plug-in, make sure your system meets the following requirements