ImageGear for C and C++ on Windows v19.10 - Updated
OCR
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The Recognition Component has been deprecated and will be removed in a future major release of the product.

The ImageGear Recognition component provides access to document recognition technology.

This core software module provides recognition 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 document.

Using the ImageGear Recognition component, you can recognize a document image and export the text in one of the supported output formats. These formats include 8-bit ASII and 16-bit Unicode text, Microsoft Word, HTML, and others.

The ImageGear Recognition Component also allows a user to:

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

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

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