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OCR analyser with PDF extractor SDK in C# with ByteScout PDF Suite

Learn to code in C# to make OCR analyser with PDF extractor SDK with this simple How-To tutorial

Writing of the code to OCR analyser with PDF extractor SDK in C# can be done by developers of any level using ByteScout PDF Suite. ByteScout PDF Suite helps with OCR analyser with PDF extractor SDK in C#. ByteScout PDF Suite is the bundle that provides six different SDK libraries 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.

Save time on writing and testing code by using the code below and use it in your application. If you want to implement this functionality, you should copy and paste code below into your app using code editor. Then compile and run your application. Want to see how it works with your data then code testing will allow the function to be tested and work properly.

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using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Diagnostics; using Bytescout.PDFExtractor; // This example demonstrates the use of OCR Analyser - a tooling class for analysis of scanned documents // in PDF or raster image formats to find best parameters for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) that // provide highest recognition quality. // To make OCR work you should add the following references to your project: // 'Bytescout.PDFExtractor.dll', 'Bytescout.PDFExtractor.OCRExtension.dll'. namespace OCRAnalyser { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { // Input document string inputDocument = @".\sample_ocr.pdf"; // Document page index int pageIndex = 0; // Area of the document page to perform the analysis (optional). // RectangleF.Empty means the full page. RectangleF rectangle = RectangleF.Empty; // new RectangleF(100, 50, 350, 250); // Location of language data files string ocrLanguageDataFolder = @"c:\Program Files\Bytescout PDF Extractor SDK\ocrdata_best\"; // OCR language string ocrLanguage = "eng"; // "eng" for english, "deu" for German, "fra" for French, "spa" for Spanish etc - according to files in "ocrdata" folder // Find more language files at https://github.com/bytescout/ocrdata // Create OCRAnalyzer instance and activate it with your registration information using (OCRAnalyzer ocrAnalyzer = new OCRAnalyzer("demo", "demo")) { // Display analysis progress ocrAnalyzer.ProgressChanged += (object sender, string message, double progress, ref bool cancel) => { Console.WriteLine(message); }; // Load document to OCRAnalyzer ocrAnalyzer.LoadDocumentFromFile(inputDocument); // Setup OCRAnalyzer ocrAnalyzer.OCRLanguage = ocrLanguage; ocrAnalyzer.OCRLanguageDataFolder = ocrLanguageDataFolder; // Set page area for analysis (optional) ocrAnalyzer.SetExtractionArea(rectangle); // Perform analysis and get results OCRAnalysisResults analysisResults = ocrAnalyzer.AnalyzeByOCRConfidence(pageIndex); // Now extract the text using detected OCR parameters string outputDocument = @".\result.txt"; // Create TextExtractor instance using (TextExtractor textExtractor = new TextExtractor("demo", "demo")) { // Load document to TextExtractor textExtractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(inputDocument); // Setup TextExtractor textExtractor.OCRMode = OCRMode.Auto; textExtractor.OCRLanguageDataFolder = ocrLanguageDataFolder; textExtractor.OCRLanguage = ocrLanguage; // Apply analysis results to TextExtractor instance ocrAnalyzer.ApplyResults(analysisResults, textExtractor); // Set extraction area (optional) textExtractor.SetExtractionArea(rectangle); // Save extracted text to file textExtractor.SaveTextToFile(outputDocument); // Open result document in default associated application (for demo purpose) ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(outputDocument); processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true; Process.Start(processStartInfo); } } } } }

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