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OCR (optical character recognition) in PDF with PDF extractor SDK in ASP.NET

Every ByteScout tool includes sampleASP.NET source codes that you can find here or in the folder with installed ByteScout product. ByteScout PDF Suite was created to assist OCR (optical character recognition) in PDF with PDF extractor SDK in ASP.NET. ByteScout PDF Suite is the set that includes 6 SDK products to work with PDF from generating rich PDF reports to extracting data from PDF documents and converting them to HTML. This bundle includes PDF (Generator) SDK, PDF Renderer SDK, PDF Extractor SDK, PDF to HTML SDK, PDF Viewer SDK and PDF Generator SDK for Javascript.

Want to speed up the application development? Then this ASP.NET, code samples for ASP.NET, developers help to speed up the application development and writing a code when using ByteScout PDF Suite. Follow the steps-by-step instructions from the scratch to work and copy and paste code for ASP.NET into your editor. Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

Our website gives free trial version of ByteScout PDF Suite. It includes all these source code samples with the purpose to assist you with your ASP.NET application implementation.

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Default.aspx
      
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="OpticalCharacterRecognition._Default" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head runat="server"> <title>Untitled Page</title> </head> <body> <form id="form1" runat="server"> <div> </div> </form> </body> </html>

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Default.aspx.cs
      
using System; using Bytescout.PDFExtractor; // Before running the example, copy missing *.traineddata files from "Redistributable" folder to "ocrdata" project folder. // or download from https://github.com/bytescout/ocrdata // Make sure "Copy to Output Directory" property of each added language file is set to "Copy always". namespace OpticalCharacterRecognition { /* IF YOU SEE TEMPORARY FOLDER ACCESS ERRORS: Temporary folder access is required for web application when you use ByteScout SDK in it. If you are getting errors related to the access to temporary folder like "Access to the path 'C:\Windows\TEMP\... is denied" then you need to add permission for this temporary folder to make ByteScout SDK working on that machine and IIS configuration because ByteScout SDK requires access to temp folder to cache some of its data for more efficient work. SOLUTION: If your IIS Application Pool has "Load User Profile" option enabled the IIS provides access to user's temp folder. Check user's temporary folder If you are running Web Application under an impersonated account or IIS_IUSRS group, IIS may redirect all requests into separate temp folder like "c:\temp\". In this case - check the User or User Group your web application is running under - then add permissions for this User or User Group to read and write into that temp folder (c:\temp or c:\windows\temp\ folder) - restart your web application and try again */ public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page { protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { String inputFile = Server.MapPath(@".\bin\sample_ocr.pdf"); // Location of language files String ocrLanguageDataFolder = Server.MapPath(@".\bin\ocrdata"); // Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor instance using (TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor()) { extractor.RegistrationName = "demo"; extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"; // Enable Optical Character Recognition (OCR) // in .Auto mode (SDK automatically checks if needs to use OCR or not) extractor.OCRMode = OCRMode.Auto; // Set the location of OCR language data files extractor.OCRLanguageDataFolder = ocrLanguageDataFolder; // Set OCR language extractor.OCRLanguage = "eng"; // "eng" for english, "deu" for German, "fra" for French, "spa" for Spanish etc - according to files in "ocrdata" folder // Set PDF document rendering resolution extractor.OCRResolution = 300; // You can also apply various preprocessing filters // to improve the recognition on low-quality scans. // Automatically deskew skewed scans //extractor.OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.AddDeskew(); // Remove vertical or horizontal lines (sometimes helps to avoid OCR engine's page segmentation errors) //extractor.OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.AddVerticalLinesRemover(); //extractor.OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.AddHorizontalLinesRemover(); // Repair broken letters //extractor.OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.AddDilate(); // Remove noise //extractor.OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.AddMedian(); // Apply Gamma Correction //extractor.OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.AddGammaCorrection(); // Add Contrast //extractor.OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.AddContrast(20); // (!) You can use new OCRAnalyser class to find an optimal set of image preprocessing // filters for your specific document. // See "OCR Analyser" example. // Load PDF document extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(inputFile); // Write extracted text to output stream Response.Clear(); Response.ContentType = "text/html"; Response.Write("<pre>"); // Write extracted text to output stream Response.Write(extractor.GetText()); Response.Write("</pre>"); Response.End(); } } } }

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Default.aspx.designer.cs
      
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------ // <auto-generated> // This code was generated by a tool. // Runtime Version:2.0.50727.4952 // // Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if // the code is regenerated. // </auto-generated> //------------------------------------------------------------------------------ namespace ExtractAllText { /// <summary> /// _Default class. /// </summary> /// <remarks> /// Auto-generated class. /// </remarks> public partial class _Default { /// <summary> /// form1 control. /// </summary> /// <remarks> /// Auto-generated field. /// To modify move field declaration from designer file to code-behind file. /// </remarks> protected global::System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlForm form1; } }

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Web.config
      
<?xml version="1.0"?> <configuration> <appSettings/> <connectionStrings/> <system.web> <!-- Set compilation debug="true" to insert debugging symbols into the compiled page. Because this affects performance, set this value to true only during development. --> <compilation debug="true" /> <!-- The <authentication> section enables configuration of the security authentication mode used by ASP.NET to identify an incoming user. --> <authentication mode="Windows" /> <!-- The <customErrors> section enables configuration of what to do if/when an unhandled error occurs during the execution of a request. Specifically, it enables developers to configure html error pages to be displayed in place of a error stack trace. <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="GenericErrorPage.htm"> <error statusCode="403" redirect="NoAccess.htm" /> <error statusCode="404" redirect="FileNotFound.htm" /> </customErrors> --> </system.web> </configuration>

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