Royalty-free Optical Character Recognition

Embed high-quality optical character recognition with Nicomsoft OCR.

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Read and process images for OCR content.

Nicomsoft OCR is an OCR software development kit. Developers can use it to embed high-quality optical character recognition functionality into their products. Recognition quality, agility, small size, ease of use and a royalty-free licensing policy are the main advantages of Nicomsoft OCR.

Features

• Excellent character analysis technology delivering reliable recognition of any font even in poor-quality images
• Excellent analysis algorithms for poor quality text, distorted, connected and broken characters
• Dictionaries are used for the best recognition
• English, German, French, Spanish and Russian language support
• ICR module for handwritten digits
• Full support for multiple core CPUs speeding up analysis through efficient parallel processing of recognition
• Support of multiple image formats including BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and GIF
• Simple API interface and sample projects for various programming languages including C#, C++, VB.NET, Delphi, C++ Builder and VB
• Supports .NET, WPF, WCF, ASP.NET and Silverlight frameworks and technologies
• Both native x86 and x64 binaries are included
• Support for multipage image formats (TIFF, GIF)
• Support for PDF files
• Load images from files, memory or pixel data
• Invert/rotate/mirror entire images or selected text block(s) before processing
• Adaptive image binarization supports images with poor brightness or low contrast
• Configure image binarization parameters for specific images
• Page layout analysis algorithm (zoning)
• Perform OCR step by step to provide intermediate results
• Use several CPU cores for even faster image binarization
• Perform zonal OCR and select one or multiple areas for OCR
• Specify different OCR options for different areas
• Process multiple images at once by using multiple threads

About Nicomsoft

Established in 1999, Nicomsoft is a privately owned software company, specializing in the development of efficient commercial libraries and utility applications for end users. All their specialists have years of experience in the development of customized, fully integrated digital systems.