OCR Xpress [2.x]

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OCR Xpress delivers fast and accurate full-page optical character recognition (OCR) to software developers in .NET and ActiveX COM toolkits. Use OCR Xpress to add full-page text recognition, auto rotate, and searchable document creation to your application. This software development kit (SDK) also supports deskew, binarisation, character position information, and segmentation of documents into image and text elements. It supports output to multiple text and text-plus-image formats including Microsoft Word-compatible RTF files and standard Adobe PDF files.

Text and Font Style Recognition
Perform OCR on a digital image, delivering the text in:

The appropriate Serif, Sans Serif, or Monospace font style
A font that is closest in form to the recognized font in normal, bold, italic, or bold italic Scaled over a wide range of font sizes

Language Recognition

Recognize text in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Hungarian, Polish, and Finnish
Recognize one language at a time
Includes dictionaries for all supported languages
Accepts and applies user-defined words in a custom dictionary

Auto Rotation

Accepts input images in any orientation and automatically rotates 0, 90, 180, or 270 degrees
Returns the amount of rotation applied
Uses the text to determine orientation
Highly optimized for speed

Character Position Information

Returns character position information for all characters (recognized with high and low confidence)
Use this feature to redact or highlight text in the original image using the included NotateXpress component.
Use this feature to build your own PDF files, using the position information to place the hidden text in the correct location.
Use the recognition confidence of each character in OCR Xpress and its recognition engine in conjunction with other OCR engines, such as SmartZone, to perform voting, thereby improving the recognition accuracy of both engines.

Text Correction Capability

Image Binarisation

Create black and white images from 24 bit color and 8 bit grayscale image file formats, with image input and conversion support provided by ImagXpress Document v8
Retain non-text color regions for reinsertion into the output document

Deskew
Full-page deskew on images with up to 15 degrees of skew

Image Input

OCR Xpress includes ImagXpress Document (read the full ImagXpress Document v8 product description) for image input (including TIFF, JPEG, JBIG2, and more)
Input uncompressed in-memory image data

File Output Formats

The output from OCR Xpress is a digital file containing unformatted text, formatted text, or formatted text plus image data, delivered in a variety of file formats. OCR Xpress Professional outputs all file types listed below, INCLUDING PDF. OCR Xpress Standard outputs all file types listed below, EXCEPT PDF.
ASCII
ASCII with no line breaks
ASCII with line breaks
ASCII with smart formatting (positioned with spaces)
ASCII, comma-delimited (one line per field)
ASCII, tab-delimited
Excel v2.x (compatible with later versions)
HTML, with a sub-folder of the same name containing images
PDFI
PDF – Searchable Image (Original Image with Hidden Text), PDF version 1.4 file (Professional edition only)
PDF – Formatted Text and Graphics (Normal), PDF version 1.4 file (Professional edition only)
PDF – Image only, PDF version 1.4 file (Professional edition only)
RTF – Used for import to Word, WordPerfect, etc.
WordPerfect 5.0, WordPerfect 5.1
All image-only file formats supported by ImagXpress (see "File Format Support" of ImagXpress Document)

Segmentation

Automatically or manually locate regions of the input image and identify them as either images (whose color can be preserved) or areas containing recognizable text
Access various regions separately, or recombine into fully-formatted documents such as RTF or PDF files

Create Searchable Text
Easily build a custom system for conversion of scanned images to searchable PDF or RTF files.

Auto Rotation
Automatically correct the orientation of document images, even if they are not to be converted to text.

Image PDF to Text PDF
Add PDF Xpress to open image-only PDF files, then convert them to image-over-text or standard PDFs.

Advanced Preprocessing
Use the industry-leading image cleanup facilities of ImagXpress and optional ScanFix Xpress to yield superior OCR results.

Recognition Dictionaries
Use the included dictionaries for each language, plus a user-customizable dictionary, to improve overall OCR accuracy.

Suspect Character Identification
Easily create a user interface to replace low-confidence characters identified during OCR.

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