Introduction

The LEADTOOLS OCR API provides dynamic link library (DLL) functions to let you:

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Add page(s) to the internal OCR list of pages.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Select the language to use in recognizing the OCR pages.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Recognize a variety of documents, including facsimiles, photocopies and documents with complex layouts.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Save the document in any of several text output formats.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Correct certain document characteristics such as noise, darkness, lightness, etc. to get the best possible character recognition.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Manually or automatically detect / select zones for recognition.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Use dictionaries for improving OCR results.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Display document pages, with or without their zones.

The toolkit comes in WIN32 editions so that it can support development of software applications for any of the following environments:

Windows 4.x NT
Windows 95/98/Me
Windows 2000/XP

Please note that due to the large size of the files that contain the LEADTOOLS manuals, these files are no longer included in the setup. Instead, print documentation can be downloaded from our website at http://support.leadtools.com/SupportPortal/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=3&tabid=27.