The tesseract-ocr-dotnet from funk03

tesseract-ocr-dotnet's Introduction

Warning

This project has been deprecated in favour of https://github.com/charlesw/tesseract.

Overview

A tesseract-ocr .NET wrapper based on tesseractdotnet.

This project can be considered an (unofficial) fork off the tesseract-ocr project that adds a .NET wrapper using C++/CLI. It is based off the excellent work done by the tesseractocrdotnet team.

Code License: Apache License 2.0
Site Content License (Documentation etc): [Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License](license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

Example

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Drawing;
using OCR.TesseractWrapper;

namespace tesseractconsole
{
    public class Program
    {
        const string TessractData = @".\tessdata\";

        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            const string language = "eng";
            string imageFile = args[0];

            TesseractProcessor processor = new TesseractProcessor();

            using (var bmp = Bitmap.FromFile(imageFile) as Bitmap) {
                var success = processor.Init(TessractData, language, (int)eOcrEngineMode.OEM_DEFAULT);
                if (!success) {
                    Console.WriteLine("Failed to initialize tesseract.");
                } else {
                    string text = processor.Recognize(bmp);
                    Console.WriteLine("Text:");
                    Console.WriteLine("*****************************");
                    Console.WriteLine(text);
                    Console.WriteLine("*****************************");
                }
            }

            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit.");
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}

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