Leadtools.Workflow.Ocr Introduction

The LEADTOOLS Windows Workflow offering includes WF activities for file loading and saving, TWAIN and WIA scanning, image processing, document image processing and clean-up, reading and writing barcodes, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). These new activities can be used in any application framework that supports Windows WF such as SharePoint and Microsoft CRM.

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is a development framework that enables you to embed workflows in .NET Framework applications. A workflow application is a software application which coordinates and manages individual units of work, encapsulated as activities. Activities can be chained together to automate one or more processes. The processes are usually business-related, but can be any process that requires a series of steps that can be automated via software.

 

Leadtools.Workflow.OCR Namespace extends LEADTOOLS Optical Character Recognition functionality allowing developers to create Windows Workflow applications that perform character recognition on document images and output text to over 20 file formats. 

Key Features:

• Create multiple OCR documents in your application. Each document contains its own list of pages.
• Select the language to use in recognizing the OCR pages.
• Use dictionaries for improving OCR results.
• Recognize a variety of documents, including facsimiles, photocopies and documents with complex layouts.
• Save the document in any of several output document formats including PDF, MS Word as well as regular text.
• Correct document characteristics such as noise, darkness, and lightness to achieve the best possible character recognition.
• Recognize a variety of documents, including facsimiles, photocopies and documents with complex layouts

• Supported output formats include:

Supported Environments:

The toolkit comes in Win32 and x64 editions that can support development of software applications for any of the following environments:

• Windows 7
• Windows Vista
• Windows XP
• Windows 2000
• Windows 2000 Server and newer

System Requirements:
You can download the required software from Microsoft's download website.

• Visual Studio 2005, 2008, or 2010
• .NET Framework 3.0 or later installed.
• Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation*

• "Microsoft® Windows® Software Development Kit Update for Windows Vista"
or
• "Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework version 3.5" 
 
* Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation can be found at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5D61409E-1FA3-48CF-8023-E8F38E709BA6&displaylang=en