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Aspose.OCR  for Java
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Aspose.Imaging for Java

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 .

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 PNG image to JSON document:

  • Create an instance of AsposeOcr class
  • Call AsposeOCR.RecognizePage method
  • Pass the PNG file path as parameter
  • AsposeOCR.RecognizePage returns a String or file of JSON 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);
  • 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.

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    JSON What is JSON File Format

    JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is an open standard file format for sharing data that uses human-readable text to store and transmit data. JSON files are stored with the .json extension. JSON requires less formatting and is a good alternative for XML. JSON is derived from JavaScript but is a language-independent data format. The generation and parsing of JSON is supported by many modern programming languages. application/json is the media type used for JSON.

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    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)