ImageGear for C and C++ on Windows v19.8 - Updated
OCR
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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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