It is an easy task to integrate powerful Optical Character Recognition SDK technology into your Windows Forms applications.
- Segment page into individual zones for processing
- Text Extraction
- Support OCR image pre-processing
- Cancel OCR in progress
- Output OCR results into PDF, PDF/A
- Save OCR results into 30+ format support by .NET Imaging SDK
- More image OCR Recognition functions
OCR Recognition
This integration guide suggests how to use WinForms .NET Imaging SDK and OCR SDK to recognize text from scanned documents & creating searchable PDFs. (For information about OCR images in C#.NET applications, VB.NET applications or on the web, please go to
OCR Images for C#.NET,
OCR Images in VB.NET and
OCR Images in Web Viewer.)
- Start you Microsoft Visual Studio;
- Open an existed Windows Application;
- Add RasterEdge.DotNetImaging.dll & RasterEdge.DotNetImaging.Ocr.dll to projects;
- Drag ImageViewer and OCRScanner to your app.
Auto Zone
Go to the built-in property editor:
- Open "OCR Engine" to start OCR process;
- Open "AutoZone" to segment source images into text, image and table OCR zones automatically;
Text Extraction
Go to the built-in property editor:
- Click "Text Extraction" to extract text from black and white, grayscale and color images.
Translate Image to Scannable PDF, PDF/A
Go to the built-in property editor:
- Click "Source Image" to choose the image that you want to translate to PDF;
- Click "Generate" to start your translation processing.
Save OCR Results
Go to the built-in property editor:
- Click "Save" to save OCR results into memory or any of over 40 formats;
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Want to install Imaging SDK in Web applications, please go to
AJAX Zero-Footprint Document Image Viewer.