Accusoft.OCRXpress.Java
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OCR Xpress™ for Java is a full-page OCR engine. Any Java BufferedImage in an uncompressed 1-BPP, 8-BPP, and 24-BPP format can be loaded and processed without any image pre-filtering or pre-processing. OCR Xpress for Java converts the input image into a searchable PDF document. One or more buffered images can be built into a single PDF document. In addition, OCR Xpress for Java provides a rich API that allows you to access the same internal OCR results used to generate the PDF documents.
In addition to using OCR Xpress for Java in an end-to-end product solution for converting full page images into searchable text, there are several other uses in which customers may apply OCR Xpress for Java functionality. OCR Xpress for Java can also convert an image to a TXT file for archiving searchable text. By archiving the original image with the searchable text file in a database, it can later be retrieved according to the results of searches for key words or phrases in the text file.
For applications that need to access post-OCR data for processing purposes, OCR Xpress for Java generates and maintains an internal hierarchical model of the text it finds in an image. Every character is hierarchically tied to the word, text line, text block, region, and page with which it is associated. The same is true of every word, text line, text block, region, and page of the generated document. The rich API allows the application to access this internal hierarchical model or to directly access items in the hierarchy. With OCR Xpress for Java, a form reader application can extract data from the form based on its location. The API also provides confidence levels of the text in question so that the application can make content usage decisions based on the confidence that the recognized text is correct.
The OCR Xpress for Java toolkit provides the following functionality:
Even though OCR Xpress for Java is designed to be a stand-alone OCR engine, there are some pre-OCR image processing operations that may need to be performed on the input image to achieve optimal results. For example, OCR Xpress for Java does not deskew the input image.
Accusoft offers other products like ImageGear Professional to be companion components in a document recognition application. If your applications requires these pre-OCR image processing operations, Accusoft recommends using the Accusoft components that provide these functionalities.
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