OCR Toolkit for Programming OCR

LEADTOOLS' OCR engine, based upon the time-tested industry standard ScanSoft Capture Development engine, includes preset confidence and accuracy levels, artificial intelligence, and built-in and user-defined lexicons for increasing the type of text recognized within a particular zone.

Now you can add many zoned areas to the same page and each zone can have its own options such as the recognition module, filter and much more. LEAD makes OCR development easier by pre-setting OCR properties that work for most images by default. To improve recognition results, LEADTOOLS OCR supports custom dictionaries to recognize words that may only exist in the documents being recognized. Other OCR features include support for multiple languages , output document options like document margins, paragraph options and more, as well as new output formats.

Different fonts, sizes (5 to 72 point) and styles are also supported. The OCR Engine supports major European and Scandinavian languages (Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish) as well as English. For a complete list of supported languages, click here. Recognized text can be exported to several different formats, including MS Word, XML, PDF, WordPerfect and more . You get superior OCR processing speeds, for use in form recognition and processing applications. The OCR features extend the functionality of the LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite or Document Imaging with OCR add on by providing properties, methods, and events for easily incorporating the ScanSoft SDK optical character recognition engine into your applications.

Additional features:

• Recognize and export text, choosing from a variety of text, word processing, database, or spreadsheet file formats.
• Select the language of documents to be recognized. Choose from English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, etc...
• Documents with multiple languages can be recognized.
• Recognize text from 5 to 72 points in virtually any typeface.
• Recognize multiple document pages at once and save recognition results to a single file.
• Process both text and graphics. The recognition software's ability to distinguish graphics from text provides the basis of creating a compound document processing system.
• Process documents in two-page mode for open-faced books and magazines.
• And more.

Three specialized OCR recognition engines are supported:

MOR OCR Engine

This module recognizes machine printed text (i.e. from printed publications, laser or ink-jet printers and electric typewriters). Output from mechanical typewriters in good condition may also be acceptable. It should also be used for letter or near letter quality (LQ, NLQ) output from dot-matrix printers.

This module can safely handle A3 size (11.69" x 16.54") both portrait and landscape images with 300 dpi resolution.

• Supports up to 500 zones on one image
• Supports Omnifont, Draftdot24 and OCR-A filling methods
• Provides 3 page-level accuracy and speed trade off settings including Accurate, Balanced and Fast
• Provides Checking Subsystem based correction

MTX (Mtext) OCR Engine

This recognition module recognizes machine printed text (i.e. from printed publications, laser or ink-jet printers and electric typewriters). Output from mechanical typewriters in good condition may also be acceptable. It should also be used for Letter or Near Letter Quality output from dot-matrix printers, and can also be used for Draft Quality. Only images with the following resolution ranges are supported: 90-110, 160-240, 280-320, 400, 600. This module does not process images larger than 6600 pixels in either width or height, that is it can safely handle A3 size (11.69" x 16.54") both portrait and landscape images with 300 dpi resolution.

• The fastest of the selectable OCR engines
• Supports up to 64 zones on one image
• Supports Omnifont, Draftdot9 and Draftdot24 filling methods
• Provides 2 page-level accuracy and speed trade off settings including a combined Accurate & Balanced value and Fast
• Provides Checking Subsystem based correction

FireWorX OCR Engine

This module recognizes machine printed text (i.e. from printed publications, laser or ink-jet printers and electric typewriters). Output from mechanical typewriters in good condition may also be acceptable. It should also be used for letter or near letter quality (NLQ, LQ) output from dot-matrix printers.

• Optimized for speed
• Supports up to 2,500 zones on one image
• Supports Omnifont filling methods

The OCR SDK and related products are available below

Pricing Structure

Product	Price	Purchase	Try
LEADTOOLS OCR Module	†$1995		Free Trial
The OCR plug-in is included in the following toolkit.
LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite	†$3995		Free Trial
The OCR plug-in can be added to the following toolkits.
LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging SDK	†$4495		Free Trial
LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite	†$7995		Free Trial
The OCR PDF plug-in can be added on to OCR.
*LEADTOOLS PDF OCR Plug-in	†$1495		Free Trial

†Marked toolkits require runtime licensing based on the deployment of the application you develop. Several purchase options are available. For more information, please contact oemsales@leadtools.com or call a LEAD sales representative.

* LEADTOOLS PDF OCR Plug-in is required to output PDF.