Aspose.OCR for C++
Overview
processes scanned images or even smartphone photos in PNG format and creates PNG documents containing recognized text. To add it to your project, you just need to get Aspose.OCR
Aspose Maven Repository or specify Aspose Maven Repository configuration and install it within your Maven-based project by adding the following configurations to the pom.xml. For Graddle, Ivy, Sbt examples check out our repository .
Package Manager Console Command
PM> Install-Package Aspose.OCR.Cpp
With C++ OCR and just a few lines of code, you can create full-featured application that converts an PNG image to Text document:
- Create an instance of AsposeOcr class
- Call AsposeOCR.asposeocr_page() method
- Pass the PNG file path as parameter
- AsposeOCR.asposeocr_page returns a String or file of Text type
System Requirements
Before running the example, make sure that Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime 1.7.0 or above is added to the project. It should be automatically installed if you install Aspose.OCR via NuGet Package Manager.
- NET Standard 2.0+ compatible solution
- Aspose.OCR for .NET referenced in your project.
std::string img_path = "../srcSample.png";
// Prepare buffer for result (in symbols, len_byte = len * sizeof(wchar_t))
const size_t len = 4096;
wchar_t bfr[len] = { 0 };
size_t result = aspose::ocr::page(image_path.c_str(), bfr, len);
//Print result
std::wcout << bfr << L"\n";
PNG What is PNG File Format
PNG, Portable Network Graphics, refers to a type of raster image file format that use loseless compression. This file format was created as a replacement of Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) and has no copyright limitations. However, PNG file format does not support animations. PNG file format supports loseless image compression that makes it popular among its users. With the passage of time, PNG has evolved as one of the mostly used image file format. Almost all Operating Systems have support for opening PNG files. For example, Microsoft Windows viewer has the capability to open PNG files as the OS has by default the support available as part of installation.
Read MoreText What is Text File Format
A file with .TXT extension represents a text document that contains plain text in the form of lines. Paragraphs in a text document are recognized by carriage returns and are used for better arrangement of file contents. A standard text document can be opened in any text editor or word processing application on different operating systems. All the text contained in such a file is in human-readable format and represented by sequence of characters.
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