OCR

LEADTOOLS' OCR engine is based upon the time-tested industry standard ScanSoft Capture Development System v12 engine.

LEADTOOLS OCR engine brings together a considerable number of recognition modules:

• MTX, FRX, MOR and the PLUS2W and PLUS3W omnifont modules for the recognition of different machine-generated texts.
  
• HNR and RER modules for handprint recognition.
  
• DOT module for 9-pin draft dot-matrix printouts.
  
• OMR module for optical mark recognition.
  
• MAT module for fixed-font texts (MICR or E-13B, OCR-A, OCR-B, etc.).
  

Through the MOR, PLUS2W and PLUS3W multi-lingual recognition modules, the LEADTOOLS OCR Engine supports over 110 languages, including languages that use the Latin, Cyrillic and Greek and related alphabets.

Besides recognition, the LEADTOOLS OCR Engine offers all LEAD File formats as an input.

The LEADTOOLS OCR Engine can deliver precise coordinate, confidence and attribute data for each recognized character, giving the application great control over the formatting of the output text - at one extreme mirroring the input document, at the other permitting a unique user-defined style.

In addition to the above new recognition modules, the LEADTOOLS OCR engine supports the following new features:

1. Import and export all image file formats supported by LEADTOOLS.
   
2. You can recognize the entire page area as one zone, and you can specify zones in each page, and recognize them all.
   
3. You can specify a different recognition module for each zone in the same page.
   
4. The optional PDF Output kit offers five PDF converters to produce different types of PDF outputs including image-only, searchable, and other PDF output files.
   
5. The engine lets you to create your dictionary to use it with the recognition process.
   
6. You can specify the dictionary that you need to use, and the spell languages that will be used for the checking subsystem (confidence).
   
7. And more...
   

Supported Platforms

OCR API

OCR COM

OCR .NET