can any one suggest a free ocr library dot net or java for me. I needto convert images containing text to word documents. The input images will be of tyy .tiff,.gif,.bmp.jpg.
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Check this question : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/971344/java-based-ocr-sdk-api
Shoban
2009-07-27 12:39:15
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I've found this to be slower than Microsoft Office Document Imaging's OCR component, but if MODI isn't an option for you and you have time to write a little wrapper code if you need to use .Net, you can use Tesseract.
AJ
2009-07-27 13:55:00
+1 for Tesseract.
Jeremybub
2009-07-27 16:23:31
can MODI (microsoft office doc imaging ) recoznize hand written characters?
2009-07-28 05:24:41
No, it does not recognize handwriting, and I am fairly certain that you won't find anything free that does. Not to mention that handwriting recognition is largely a crapshoot. I've done a fair amount of analysis on both OCR and ICR (handwriting) tools, and found none that could consistently recognize handwriting.
AJ
2009-07-28 12:56:21
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If you're ok with using an external, web-based API to do the OCR, take a look at http://www.wisetrend.com/wisetrend_ocr_cloud.shtml
Sample code in .NET (C#) to use this: http://snipt.org/lOgh/
The API handles BMP, JPG, TIF and other image formats
Eugene Osovetsky
2010-10-24 19:20:29