How to read images in .NET?

Question

What API or component could I use to read images (e.g. scanned copies) using C# and .Net?

Answer 1

System.Drawing.Image.FromFile is the easy way to get started.

It can read BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF

Answer 2

Checkout Aforge.Net.

Here is a sample on how to use it

Answer 3

use openCV. you can find it here

you can use this library perfectly with c++. if you need to use it in C# use this wrapper

you can also use ImageMagick

Answer 4

It very much depends on the technology you want to use; in the case of WPF you'd use built-in classes in System.Windows.Media.Imaging, which handle the most common formats natively (bmp, jpeg, png, gif, tiff, wmp).