OCR free library to use with VC++

Question

Where can I find a free OCR library to use with VC++? I need to read computer generated numbers.

Answer 1

Tesseract and Cueniform are the best free OCR engines that can be compiled with C++.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_(software)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CuneiForm_(software) or http://en.openocr.org/projects/

Answer 2

If you're ok with calling an external API for this, consider http://www.wisetrend.com/wisetrend_ocr_cloud.shtml - a REST API for OCR, should be easy to call from any language/environment including VC++.