This section provides information about the following:

OCR Samples and Tutorials

Our suite of OCR samples will help you get started using ImageGear’s OCR capabilities.

This section also provides step-by-step OCR tutorials, which show you how to create a new ImageGear project using the OCR component:

Tutorial: Create Your First OCR Project for a Console Application

ImageGear.OCR Namespace

The ImageGear.OCR namespace allows you to import images to OCR. It also allows for defined character sets, working with zones, and pre-processing an image.

The ImageGear.OCR namespace provides full multi-threaded OCR and improved accuracy with checking.

To enable the ImageGear.OCR namespace in your project, specify the following directive:

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using ImageGear.OCR;

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Import ImageGear.OCR

OCR Dependencies

Nuget packages make it easy to add, remove, and update libraries and tools in Visual Studio projects that use the .NET Framework. See NuGet Packages for more information.