HTML JPG OCR XML BMP
Aspose.OCR  for Java
PDF

Aspose.Imaging for Java

processes scanned images or even smartphone photos in PDF format and creates PDF 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 .

Maven Dependency


 <dependency>
 <groupId>com.aspose</groupId>
 <artifactId>aspose-ocr</artifactId>
 <version>22.5</version>
 </dependency>

With Java OCR and just a few lines of code, you can create full-featured application that converts an PDF image to PDF document:

  • Create an instance of AsposeOcr class
  • Call AsposeOCR.RecognizePage method
  • Pass the PDF file path as parameter
  • AsposeOCR.RecognizePage returns a String or file of PDF type

System Requirements

Before running the example, make sure that Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 6.0 (1.6) or later is installed on your system.

  • JDK 1.6 or higher is installed.


 //Create API instance
 AsposeOCR api = new AsposeOCR();

 //Prepare rectangles with texts.
 ArrayList rectArray = new ArrayList();

 rectArray.add(new Rectangle(138, 352, 2033, 537));
 rectArray.add(new Rectangle(147, 890, 2033, 1157));

 String result = api.RecognizePage("srcImage.png", rectArray);
 System.out.println("Result with rect: " + result);
  • PDF What is PDF File Format

    Portable Document Format (PDF) is a type of document created by Adobe back in 1990s. The purpose of this file format was to introduce a standard for representation of documents and other reference material in a format that is independent of application software, hardware as well as Operating System. The PDF file format has full capability to contain information like text, images, hyperlinks, form-fields, rich media, digital signatures, attachments, metadata, Geospatial features and 3D objects in it that can become as part of source document.

    Read More

    PDF What is PDF File Format

    Portable Document Format (PDF) is a type of document created by Adobe back in 1990s. The purpose of this file format was to introduce a standard for representation of documents and other reference material in a format that is independent of application software, hardware as well as Operating System. The PDF file format has full capability to contain information like text, images, hyperlinks, form-fields, rich media, digital signatures, attachments, metadata, Geospatial features and 3D objects in it that can become as part of source document.

    Read More

    TXT (Text Document File)
    Text (Text Document File)
    DOC (Documents generated by Microsoft Word)
    DOCX (Microsoft Word documents)
    XLS (Microsoft Excel Binary File Format)
    XLSX (Microsoft Excel documents)
    PDF (Portable Document Format (PDF))
    Searchable PDF (Searchable Portable Network Graphics )
    XML (Extensible Markup Language)
    JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)