MICR Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

// Assuming you already added the correct references and the 
// following using statements at the beginning of your class: 
// using Leadtools; 
// using Leadtools.Ocr; 
 
// *** Step 1: Start an OCR engine 
 
// We will use the LEADTOOLS OCR Module - LEAD Engine  
IOcrEngine ocrEngine = OcrEngineManager.CreateEngine(OcrEngineType.LEAD); 
ocrEngine.Startup(null, null, null, @"C:\LEADTOOLS23\Bin\Common\OcrLEADRuntime"); 
 
// *** Step 2: Load the TIF image that contains the MICR document to be recognized 
string imageFile = @"C:\LEADTOOLS23\Resources\Images\MICR_SAMPLE.tif"; 
RasterImage image = ocrEngine.RasterCodecsInstance.Load(imageFile, 1); 
 
// *** Step 3: Create an OCR page from this image 
IOcrPage ocrPage = ocrEngine.CreatePage(image, OcrImageSharingMode.AutoDispose); 
 
LeadRect micrLocation; 
 
// *** Step 4: Add an OCR MICR zone around the MICR font area 
//   Either set the location manually if known. For example, this is for MICR_SAMPLE.tif: 
// micrLocation = new LeadRect(38, 678, 1655, 87); 
//   Or use the MICRCodeDetectionCommand to automaitcally detect the location 
Leadtools.ImageProcessing.Core.MICRCodeDetectionCommand micrCodeDetection = new Leadtools.ImageProcessing.Core.MICRCodeDetectionCommand(); 
micrCodeDetection.Run(image); 
micrLocation = micrCodeDetection.MICRZone; 
 
int zoneIndex = 0; 
OcrZone zone = new OcrZone(); 
zone.Bounds = micrLocation; 
zone.ZoneType = OcrZoneType.Micr; 
ocrPage.Zones.Add(zone); 
 
// *** Step 5: Recognize 
ocrPage.Recognize(null); 
 
// *** Step 6: Get the results as text 
string text = ocrPage.GetText(zoneIndex); 
Console.WriteLine("The MICR characters recognized on this check are:"); 
Console.WriteLine(text); 
 
// Optionally, you can use the OcrMicrData helper class to parse the MICR data: 
OcrMicrData micrData = ocrPage.GetRecognizedCharacters()[0].ExtractMicrData(); 
Console.WriteLine("Parsed MICR data:"); 
Console.WriteLine("Auxiliary:" + micrData.Auxiliary); 
Console.WriteLine("EPC:" + micrData.Epc); 
Console.WriteLine("Routing:" + micrData.Routing); 
Console.WriteLine("Account:" + micrData.Account); 
Console.WriteLine("CheckNumber:" + micrData.CheckNumber); 
Console.WriteLine("Amount:" + micrData.Amount); 
 
// Alternatively you can create an IOcrDocument and add the page to it to save it to 
// any of the supported formats instead 
 
// *** Step 7: Clean up 
ocrPage.Dispose(); 
ocrEngine.Dispose();