ByteScout Text Recognition SDK – C# – Recognize Text From Document

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ByteScout Text Recognition SDK – C# – Recognize Text From Document

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How to recognize text from document in C# using ByteScout Text Recognition SDK

How to code in C# to recognize text from document with this step-by-step tutorial

Recognize text from document is easy to implement in C# if you use these source codes below. ByteScout Text Recognition SDK: the text recognition SDK to help with extraction of text using OCR from scanned images and documents. Supports English and non-Latin languages, can take PDF as input. It can recognize text from document in C#.

C# code samples for C# developers help to speed up coding of your application when using ByteScout Text Recognition SDK. In order to implement the functionality, you should copy and paste this code for C# below into your code editor with your app, compile and run your application. Use of ByteScout Text Recognition SDK in C# is also explained in the documentation included along with the product.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using ByteScout.TextRecognition;

namespace TextRecognitionExample
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string inputDocument = @".\invoice-sample.png";
            string outputDocument = @".\result.txt";

            // Create and activate TextRecognizer instance
            using (TextRecognizer textRecognizer = new TextRecognizer("demo", "demo"))
            {
                try
                {
                    // Load document (image or PDF)
                    textRecognizer.LoadDocument(inputDocument);

                    // Set the location of OCR language data files
                    textRecognizer.OCRLanguageDataFolder = @"c:\Program Files\ByteScout Text Recognition SDK\ocrdata_best\";

                    // Set OCR language.
                    // "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
                    textRecognizer.OCRLanguage = "eng"; 
                                    
                    // Recognize text from all pages and save it to file
                    textRecognizer.SaveText(outputDocument);

                    // Open the result file in default associated application (for demo purposes)
                    Process.Start(outputDocument);
                }
                catch (Exception exception)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(exception);
                }
            }

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