Hello,
I need an OCR component for .NET.I read all questions about it at SO,but I couldn't find what I needed.
The MODI function from MS Office 2007 OCR makes the deployment of my program impossible,because all of my users must have MS Office 2007 on their computers.
Is there a way to use the OCR from MS Office without the requirement to have Office installed?
If there is not then I'm asking for another OCR component.
Use Tesseract - it has a windows distribution and is free for use under the Apache 2.0 License
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
Many products that are available use Tesseract as the backend OCR support code.
Their readme athttp://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/ReadMe has some additional information regarding building for Windows...
If you are interested in a pre-packaged component this may work: http://www.atalasoft.com/products/dotimage/ocr/tesseract/default.aspx . It does have a price...
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/