OCR Xpress for Java makes it very easy to create a full page OCR application. For the basics, there are two ways to produce searchable text documents from images:

• Generate a PDF file.
• Generate a TXT file.

In addition, text in memory can be generated for the OCR Xpress internal data.

1. Load an image into the java type BufferedImage:
   All three processes (i.e., generating PDF, TXT or document object in memory) require that the image be loaded first.

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   //Read in the image from inputImagePath BufferedImage bufferedImg = null; try { bufferedImg = ImageIO.read(new File(inputImagePath)); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); return; }

2. Create the OcrXpress and RecognitionParameters object:

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   RecognitionParameters parameters = new RecognitionParameters(); parameters.setLanguage(Language.ENGLISH); OcrXpress ocrx = new OcrXpress();

3. After an Image has been loaded it may be processed by the OcrXpress object using the specified parameters in one of three ways.
   • Generate a PDF file:

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     ocrx.recognizeToFile(parameters, bufferedImg, FileFormat.PDF, FileMode.OVERWRITE, “PdfFileName.pdf”);

   • Generate a TXT file:

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     ocrx.recognizeToFile(parameters, bufferedImg, FileFormat.TEXT, FileMode.OVERWRITE, “TextFileName.txt”);

   • Generate a document object in memory:

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     Document document = ocrx.recognizeToMemory(parameters, bufferedImg);