OCR scanning images from code

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Klaus Jensen

Hi

I need to be able to OCR-scan bitmap images from .net code. Ie:

text = ocrcomponent.scan(myImage)

The images are actually ads, and are all quite different. I need to extract
the text for fulltext-indexing purposes, so it is not important that there
are some errors and it cant get all text (weird fonts etc).

I have googled like a madman and found just one component, which will to
this: LeadTools Document Imaging SDK. But it is insanely priced - 4650$.

OCR software is something you get thrown at you when you buy a 50£
flatbed-scanner these days, so I can't believe there is only one
OCR-component on the market, and it costs that much. There has to be a
cheaper solution.

Any help and tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Klaus Jensen
 
There is also Pegasus Imaging's SmartScan ($799 for basic OCR/OMR). It also
requires runtime licensing. There may be others, but there are not a lot of
products.

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Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer) said:
There is also Pegasus Imaging's SmartScan ($799 for basic OCR/OMR). It
also requires runtime licensing. There may be others, but there are not a
lot of products.
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Thanks for your reply!

Unfortunately SmartScan is designed to scan forms (defined areas), and
cannot be used for my purpose. I have been in contact with them, and they
confirmed they did not meet my requirements.

- Klaus
 
Hi!

Thanks a lot for the help, I appreciate it!

I will look at the links. The AspRise-component looks very promising, if I
cant make the MODI-thing work. :)

- KLaus
 
Sorry I could not be of more help.

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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

***********************************************
Think Outside the Box!
***********************************************
 
You also can take a look a Lead Tools (if you have not already done so).
Not cheap, though.

Dick

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Sorry, I see you were complaining about Lead Tools pricing (I looked only at
the reply from Cowboy!). Opps.

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Richard Grier (Microsoft Visual Basic MVP)

See www.hardandsoftware.net for contact information.

Author of Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications, 4th
Edition ISBN 1-890422-28-2 (391 pages) published July 2004. See
www.mabry.com/vbpgser4 to order.
 
We are doing a lot of OCR/OMR in .NET with Abby FineReader
(www.abbyy.com)
We also use Pixel Translations PixTools toolkit for both scanning and
barcode detection. The PixTools/IP library gives you a .NET component
to read barcodes.

Just my $.02

--steve
 
n33470 said:
We are doing a lot of OCR/OMR in .NET with Abby FineReader
(www.abbyy.com)
We also use Pixel Translations PixTools toolkit for both scanning and
barcode detection. The PixTools/IP library gives you a .NET component
to read barcodes.
Click to expand...

Thanks! I'll look into it.
 
Hi,

Thanks for the information. I'll look at this library.

Dick

--
Richard Grier (Microsoft Visual Basic MVP)

See www.hardandsoftware.net for contact information.

Author of Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications, 4th
Edition ISBN 1-890422-28-2 (391 pages) published July 2004. See
www.mabry.com/vbpgser4 to order.
 
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