Startup Method

using Leadtools; 
using Leadtools.Codecs; 
using Leadtools.Ocr; 
using Leadtools.Document.Writer; 
 
public void StartupEngineExample() 
{ 
   // Use RasterCodecs to load an image file 
   // Note: You can let the engine load the image file directly as shown in the other examples 
   RasterCodecs codecs = new RasterCodecs(); 
   RasterImage image = codecs.Load(Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, "Ocr1.tif")); 
 
   // Assume you copied the engine runtime files to C:\MyApp\Ocr 
   string engineDir = @"C:\MyApp\Ocr"; 
 
   // Store the engine work directory into a path inside our application 
   string workDir = @"C:\MyApp\OcrTemp"; 
 
   // Delete all files in the work directory in case the previous version of our application exited abnormally and 
   // the engine did not get the chance to clean all of its temporary files (if any) 
   Directory.Delete(workDir, true); 
 
   // Re-create the work directory 
   Directory.CreateDirectory(workDir); 
 
   // Create an instance of the engine 
   using (IOcrEngine ocrEngine = OcrEngineManager.CreateEngine(OcrEngineType.LEAD)) 
   { 
      // Show that the engine has not been started yet 
      Console.WriteLine("Before calling Startup, IsStarted = " + ocrEngine.IsStarted); 
 
      // Start the engine using our parameters 
      // Since we already have a RasterCodecs object, we can re-use it to save memory and resources 
      ocrEngine.Startup(codecs, null, workDir, engineDir); 
 
      // Make sure the engine is using our working directory 
      Console.WriteLine("workDir passed is {0}, the value of WorkDirectory after Startup is {1}", workDir, ocrEngine.WorkDirectory); 
 
      // Show that the engine has started fine 
      Console.WriteLine("After calling Startup, EngineType is {0}, IsStarted = {1}", ocrEngine.EngineType, ocrEngine.IsStarted); 
 
      // Maks sure the engine is using our own version of RasterCodecs 
      Debug.Assert(codecs == ocrEngine.RasterCodecsInstance); 
 
      // Create a page from the raster image as page to the document 
      IOcrPage ocrPage = ocrEngine.CreatePage(image, OcrImageSharingMode.AutoDispose); 
      // image belongs to the page and will be dispose when the page is disposed 
 
      // Recognize the page 
      // Note, Recognize can be called without calling AutoZone or manually adding zones. The engine will 
      // check and automatically auto-zones the page 
      ocrPage.Recognize(null); 
 
      // Create a file based document 
      using (IOcrDocument ocrDocument = ocrEngine.DocumentManager.CreateDocument(null, OcrCreateDocumentOptions.AutoDeleteFile)) 
      { 
         // Add the page 
         ocrDocument.Pages.Add(ocrPage); 
         // No need for the page anymore 
         ocrPage.Dispose(); 
 
         // Save the document we have as PDF 
         string pdfFileName = Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, "Ocr1.pdf"); 
         ocrDocument.Save(pdfFileName, DocumentFormat.Pdf, null); 
      } 
 
      // Shutdown the engine 
      // Note: calling Dispose will also automatically shutdown the engine if it has been started 
      ocrEngine.Shutdown(); 
   } 
} 
 
static class LEAD_VARS 
{ 
   public const string ImagesDir = @"C:\LEADTOOLS22\Resources\Images"; 
}