What is OCR Xpress for Linux?

OCR Xpress™ for Linux is a powerful full-page Optical Character Recognition (OCR) product. It supports creation of searchable documents from uncompressed BMP files for distribution to end users. Searchable documents in a variety of text or text plus image formats are supported. The OCR Xpress for Linux SDK can be used as a stand-alone OCR engine or in conjunction with other Accusoft products like ImageGear Professional.

The OCR Xpress for Linux SDK provides access to document recognition technology for images to enable the extraction of text from the document. It is an omni-font text recognition component that supports multiple output file formats, including text and PDF. It also supports the output of structured results for detailed examination of the recognition output results, including the area and confidence of the character text values.

New Feature

Enable automatic orientation detection for recognition and output of the document.

Primary Features

Creation of a new component for full page Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
Enable the generation of text files and PDF of the image over text.
Provide structured output of the document.
Text recognition (OCR).
Perform operations on bitonal and color images, including the ability to export the original color images to a searchable document.
Automatic image and text segmentation.
Export to various document formats.
Multi-language support includes Western European languages.

Limitation of OCR Xpress

Even though OCR Xpress for Linux 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.

OCR Xpress for Linux:

does not Deskew the input image.
accepts only uncompressed BMP files.

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.

For information on how to register and license all your Accusoft components, see Licensing.