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Free OCR library

Does anyone know of a good free or cheap (under £100/$200) OCR library? It needs to run on Windows and preferably be a .NET library, though a COM interface is fine. ...

Indexing Service + MODI = Full-text over OCR? You wish!

Scenario: You have configured Indexing Service to index your files, which also include scanned images saved as hi-res TIFF files. You also have installed MS Office 2003+ and configured MS Office Document Imaging (MODI) correctly so you can perform OCR on your images and even embed the OCR'd text into TIFFs. Awesomeness: Indexing Service...

Open Source Windows Mobile OCR Library

Does anyone know of an OCR library that will run on Windows Mobile (5 or 6, but PPC2003SE would be great). I would imagine that OCR would be native (C/C++) code, but if it was in .NET or at least had a .NET wrapper API, that would be great. ...

OCR with the Tesseract interface

How do you OCR an tiff file using Tesseract's interface in c#? Currently I only know how to do it using the executable. ...

OCR Web Service

I am searching for an OCR web service (eventually open source, preferably free) that simply receives an image and returns the text of the image in writing. I've looked at tesseract, OCRopus and GOCR but the only open server I could find is WeOCR. Unfortunately the detection rates (at least during my tests) are sub-par and the speed is n...

Barcode- and Character Recognition component for .Net

I need to extract and decode barcodes and text from images. Is there any open source library available that helps to accomplish that task? If not, do you know a good commercial product? ...

What software would you recommend for image enhancement prior to OCR (Optical Character Recognition)?

We are currently researching ways of enhancing image quality prior to submission to OCR. The OCR engine we are currently utilizing is the Scansoft API from Nuance (v15). We were researching the Lead Tools but have since decided to look elsewhere. The licensing costs associated with Lead Tools is just too great. To start with we are l...

Programatically Parse a PDF File

I have a PDF file, which contains data that we need to import into a database. The files seem to be pdf scans of printed alphanumeric text. Looks like 10 pt. Times New Roman. Are there any tools or components that can will allow me to parse this text? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks. ...

Recommend an Open Source .NET Barcode Reader Library

Based on the stackoverflow question titled "Barcode- and Character Recognition component for .Net" we've discovered open source libraries for character recognition, but nothing's turned up for barcode recognition. Does anyone know of an open source .NET barcode reader library? EDIT: I'm asking for a library that can translate barcodes ...

Open source OCR

Is there any open source OCR library written in .NET, or written in any language but can be used in an ASP.NET application? ...

OCR resources online

Are there any guides/tutorials to learning to "read" a text from an image ? I would appreciate something that would explain it "for dummies" . Step by step would be nice :) ...

mobile ocr sample code

I was wondering if you can give me sample (or snippet) code in OCR for Mobile Phones because i need to have an idea how to start my project. i know how to code it for the use in desktop PC's but my partner told me that mobile phones has a different platform. We are planning to use .net for mobile on this one.. hope you can help me..:) ...

What is the ideal font for OCR?

Does anybody have any experience with different fonts for OCR? I am generating an ID then trying to scan it with tesseract. At the moment I am just T&E'n different fonts, but this seems pretty inefficient. I've tried the OCR* family of fonts, and various others such as Arial and Georgia. The tesseract tends to get confused with the OCR* ...

Recommendations for a programmable drivers license scanner?

Our motor pool wants to scan drivers’ licenses and have the data imported into our custom system. We're looking for something that will allow us to programmatically get the data from the scanner (including the picture) and let us insert it into our application. I was wondering if anyone has had experience with this type of system and cou...

Tools for Data Capturing from Scanned Images

What are best tools available for Data Capturing from Scanned Images? Doesn't matter they are free or paid. They should be able to convert scanned images to data (text, image, tables etc.). Most importantly they should have API to integrate with .NET 2.0 for automation. Edit: The input data will generally be Text, Images, Tables places...

Client-Side script to read and manipulate image from the web (details...)

I want to be able to use a Greasemonkey script that can take an image from a page, scan it for the darkest pixel, and then return those coordinates to the browser. Originally, I used a flash script... Greasemonkey embedded a local flash file that would fetch the image based on a URL in the source of the webpage, use ActionScript to get ...

intelligent character recognition: where to start?

I've got client that would like to capture data from a handwritten form. I have no idea how to implement this or what the cost would be. First, is this feasable/reasonable/affordable for a smallish size client. Second, how does intelligent character recognition work. (Do I need a ICR device? In what form does the data get extracted? Ho...

Has reCaptcha been cracked / hacked / OCR'd / defeated / broken?

Have any programming methods have been used to defeat reCAPTCHA? I'm interested in seeing evidence and potentially demonstrations that reCAPTCHA in particular has been made obsolete by completely automated, humanless methods. To clarify, not looking for reCAPTCHA-cheating solutions that involve humans in any way, whether teams in India...

Experiences with OCR engines

I'm looking to add OCR and Barcode Recognition to an in-house application. Since none of the OpenSource offerings worked out for my problem I'm now looking into commercial OCR libraries. This seems to be a strange world with license fees per page processed, a "call us for a quote" approach to selling and everybody claiming he has the far...

C++ Library for image recognition: images containing words to string

Does anyone know of a c++ library for taking an image and performing image recognition on it such that it can find letters based on a given font and/or font height? Even one that doesn't let you select a font would be nice (eg: readLetters(Image image). ...