Visual C#.NET: OCR Document & Images

• Full Unicode support
• Automatically detect the document's language, including English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic and more
• Extract text from certain area of page or the whole page
• Create searchable PDF documents
• Convert your document images to a PDF or Microsoft Word Document
• Save OCR results to a PDF document as text or as hidden text under the rasterized image
• Save OCR results to a text (TXT) document

Requirements

• Operating systems - Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP, etc
• Compatible with .NET framework 2.0 and above versions
• Support Visual Studio 2005, 2010 and other .NET development environments
• Yiigo.Image for .NET installation
• Yiigo .NET OCR Plugin

Start to OCR

• Open and run your Microsoft Visual Studio;
• Choose either "Visual C# Projects" in "New Project" dialog box;
• Choose "Windows Application" in the "Templates" List and name it "YiigoImagingOCRCsharp";
• Right-click on the "References" folder, and select "Add Reference..." from the context menu in the "Solution Explorer" window;
• In the "Add Reference" dialog box, select the ".NET" tab and browse to Yiigo.Imaging.Net.dll library and Yiigo.Imaging.Net.Recognition.Ocr.dll;
• Add it to your Visual C# applications;
• Call Yiigo .NET Image Namespace & Copy those following codes:

using System.IO;
using System.Drawing.Printing;
using Yiigo.Imaging;
using Yiigo.Imaging.Processing;
using Yiigo.Imaging.Recognition.OCR;

// Initialize OCR Engine
TesseractOcrEngine OcrEngine = new TesseractOcrEngine();
TesseractOcrEngine.Initialize();
TesseractOcrEngine.Translate(imageCollection, "application/msword", outputPath);
TesseractOcrEngine.Shutdown();
TesseractOcrEngine.Dispose();

// Cancel OCR in Progress
TesseractOcrEngine.PageProgressCancel = "True";

// Recognize Pages
 private void button6_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
      _ocrDocument.Pages.Recognize(null);
 
      string pdfFileName = @"C:\Ocr1.pdf";
      _ocrDocument.Save(pdfFileName, DocumentFormat.Pdf, null);
      System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(pdfFileName);
            }
                        
// Create a Searchable PDF
TesseractOcrEngine OcrEngine = new TesseractOcrEngine();
PDFGenerator PDFGenerator = new PDFGenerator(); 
PDFGenerator.Save = @"C: \Ocr1.pdf";