OCR Tutorial - Recognizing Pages

Take the following steps to start a project and to add some code that demonstrates how to recognize zones:

1. Start with the program you created in OCR Tutorial - Working with Pages

2. Drag and drop a button in Form1. Leave the button name as the default "button6", then change the Text property of the button to the following:

   ButtonTextbutton6Recognize and Save

3. Add the following code for the button6 (Recognize and Save) Click handler:

   C#

         private void button6_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) 
         { 
            // Recognize all the pages we have 
            // Note, we do not have to call AutoZone, the engine 
            // will check if the page(s) have not been zoned and perform 
            // auto-zoning for us automatically 
            _ocrDocument.Pages.Recognize(null); 
                    
            // Prompt the user for a PDF file 
            string fileName = null; 
            using (SaveFileDialog dlg = new SaveFileDialog()) 
            { 
               dlg.Filter = "PDF files|*.pdf|All files|*.*"; 
               dlg.DefaultExt = "pdf"; 
               if (dlg.ShowDialog(this) == DialogResult.OK) 
                  fileName = dlg.FileName; 
            } 
                    
            if (fileName == null) 
               return; 
                    
            // Save the result as a PDF file 
            _ocrDocument.Save(fileName, DocumentFormat.Pdf, null); 
            // Show the PDF file we just saved 
            System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(fileName); 
         } 
        

   VB

         Private Sub button6_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) 
            ' Recognize all the pages we have 
            ' Note, we do not have to call AutoZone, the engine 
            ' will check if the page(s) have not been zoned and perform 
            ' auto-zoning for us automatically 
            _ocrDocument.Pages.Recognize(Nothing) 
                    
            ' Prompt the user for a PDF file 
            Dim fileName As String = Nothing 
            Using dlg As New SaveFileDialog() 
               dlg.Filter = "PDF files|*.pdf|All files|*.*" 
               dlg.DefaultExt = "pdf" 
               If (dlg.ShowDialog(Me) = DialogResult.OK) Then 
                  fileName = dlg.FileName 
               End If 
            End Using 
                    
            If IsNothing(fileName) Then Return 
                    
            ' Save the result as a PDF file 
            _ocrDocument.Save(fileName, DocumentFormat.Pdf, Nothing) 
            ' Show the PDF file we just saved 
            System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(fileName) 
         End Sub 
        

4. Build, and Run the program to test it. You can click the buttons in the following order to create the PDF file "Startup", "Add Page", "Save and Recognize", "Shutdown".

5. Save this project to use for testing other code samples.