ImageGear's Recognition component enables you to build OCR applications for the Windows development environment. An application using the Recognition API can:

• Accept as input any image file format supported by ImageGear. This image data can be binary, gray, or color.
• Recognize an image.
• Save recognition data in either a simple text format, or one of document formats, such as MS Word or XML. The component supports the saving of multi-page documents.
• Select the language or languages of documents to be recognized. A total of 123 languages, including the following:
  • Latin alphabet languages, such as English, Eastern and Western European languages, and Baltic languages 
  • Cyrillic alphabet languages, such as Russian
  • Asian languages, such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
  • Turkish
  • Greek

  Documents with multiple languages can be recognized with accuracy because the API allows the application to specify the set of languages for recognition.

• Enable end users to verify text during the recognition process.
• Increase recognition accuracy with built-in and user-defined dictionaries.
• Output confidence values for post-recognition processing.
• Automatically segment the page to correctly recognize text on pages with complex or irregular layouts, including tables and graphics as well.
• Allow the user to delineate zones of a document page and then specify treatment for those zones. This includes the ability to correct the OCR engine's automatic segmentation between the segmentation phase and the recognition phase.
• Process both text and graphics. The recognition software's ability to distinguish graphics from text can provide the basis of a compound document processing system.
• Automatically detect fax, dot matrix, and other degraded documents and compensate accordingly.
• Use the scalable voting architecture that provides developers with two pre-made voting interfaces (PLUS2W, PLUS3W) and direct access to OCR engines.