IronOCR Product Release - .Net 5 & Azure Function Improvements

IronOCR version 2021.9.0 has been released:  

Version 2021.9.0 Features & Upgrades

·       Bug Fixed: Azure Function Compatibility

·       Bug Fixed: Works with read-only OCR dictionaries

·       Bug Fixed: Now works with .Net 5.07

·       Bug Fixed: License Keys reading from project configuration files (edge cases)

·       Feature: Color replacement methods added to OcrInput

·       Feature: Load specific frames from TIFF and PDF files

·       Improved: Updated System.Drawing.Common

 

The C# OCR Library

# Read text & barcodes from images. OCR PDFs in .NET

# OCR Supports multiple international languages

# Output as plain text string or structured data

 

 

Supported Platforms

Designed for C#, F#, & VB.NET running on .NET 5, Core, Standard, or Framework

 

Compatibility

.NET Languages:

• C#
• VB.NET
• F#

Platforms:

• .NET 5
• .NET Core 2x & 3x
• .NET Standard 2
• .NET Framework 4x

App Types:

• Console, Web, & Desktop

OS:

• Microsoft Windows
• Linux (Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu)
• MacOs
• Docker (Windows, Linux, Azure)
• Azure (VPS, Webapps, Websites, Fuctions)

IDEs:

• Microsoft Visual Studio
• Jetbrains ReSharper & Rider

OCR Engine

International Languages:

• 127 Languages
• High, Medium and Fast Quality
• Custom Languages and Word Lists

Under the Hood:

• Tesseract 5 (Custom .NET Engine)
• Tesseract 4
• Tesseract 3
• Combines Multiple OCR Engines Simultaneously for Improved Accuracy

Barcode Reading:

• >20 Barcode Formats
• QR Codes

Specialist Documents:

• Reciepts
• Checks
• Invoices

Concurrency:

• Multi-Threaded, Single Threaded, Async

 

OCR Input

Read Many Image Formats:

• Images (jpg, png, gif, tiff, bmp)
• Multipage Gif & Tiff
• System.Drawing Objects
• Streams
• PDFs

Correct Low Quality Scans & Photos:

• Enhance Resolution (Automatic or Manual)
• Binarize
• Contrast and Auto Contrast
• Deskew (Fixes Rotation and Perspective)
• Denoise
• Dilate
• Invert
• ToGrayScale
• Sharpen
• Rotate

 

OCR Output

Simple Data Outputs:

• .NET Text Strings
• Barcode & QR Data & Images

Structured Data Outputs:

• Pages
• Blocks
• Paragraphs
• Lines
• Words
• Characters

Export Documents:

• Searchable PDFs
• hOCR / HTML Export
• Images of any Page, Text Element or Barcode

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