The ImageGear Recognition namespace API offers a set of objects that provide access to document recognition technology. It enables you to build OCR applications for the Windows .NET development environment.

The ImageGear.Recognition Namespace is available in ImageGear for .NET 32-bit only.

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This core software module, referred to hereafter as the recognition engine, provides unsurpassed recognition accuracy for almost any document, including those produced on typewriters, dot-matrix printers, ink-jet printers, laser printers, and phototypesetters, as well as photocopied and faxed versions of any documents.

The figure below illustrates a simple application that takes a page image as input and produces recognized text in a variety of output formats.