Convert TIF to DOC in C#
Perform optical character recognition on TIF document and save text as TIF document using Aspose.OCR for .NET library.
Aspose.OCR for .NET
Overview
How to convert TIF to DOC using C#
Aspose.OCR for .NET is a powerful yet easy-to-use and cost-effective library for converting TIF images to DOC documents. Supporting 26 languages based on Latin, Cyrillic and Chinese, its state-of-the-art optical character recognition engine provides superior recognition speed and accuracy, while isolating you from formulas, neural networks, and other complex technical details. It allows you to add OCR functionality to your .NET applications in less than 10 lines of code.
processes scanned images or even smartphone photos in TIF format and creates TIF documents containing recognized text. To add it to your project, you just need to install the Aspose.OCR
package in your project with the following command:
Package Manager Console Command
PM> Install-Package Aspose.OCR
Steps to Convert TIF to DOC
With .NET OCR and just a few lines of code, you can create full-featured application that converts an TIF image to DOC document:
- Create an instance of AsposeOcr class
- Call AsposeOCR.RecognizeImage method
- Pass the TIF file path as parameter
- AsposeOCR.RecognizeImage returns a String or file of DOC type
System Requirements
Before running the example, make sure that .NET API compatible with NET Standard 2.0 specification is installed on your system and all external dependencies of Aspose.OCR package are referenced in your project.
- NET Standard 2.0+ compatible solution
- Aspose.OCR for .NET referenced in your project.
This sample code shows TIF to DOC .NET Conversion
// initialize an instance of AsposeOcr
AsposeOcr ocr = new AsposeOcr();
// recognize image
string riText = ocr.RecognizeImage("template.TIF");
// print text
File. File.WriteAllText("document.DOC", riText);
TIF What is TIF File Format
TIFF or TIF, Tagged Image File Format, represents raster images that are meant for usage on a variety of devices that comply with this file format standard. It is capable of describing bilevel, grayscale, palette-color and full-color image data in several color spaces. It supports lossy as well as lossless compression schemes to choose between space and time for applications using the format. The format is extensible and has underwent several revisions that allows the inclusion of an unlimited amount of private or special-purpose information. The format is not machine dependent and is free from bounds like processor, operating system, or file systems.
Read MoreDOC What is DOC File Format
Files with .doc extension represent documents generated by Microsoft Word or other word processing documents in binary file format. The extension was initially used for plain text documentation on several different operating systems. It can contain several different types of data such as images, formatted as well as plain text, graphs, charts, embedded objects, links, pages, page formatting, print settings and a lot others. The format was popular for all sorts of documentation due to the variety of options it offers to users for writing manuals, proposals, specifications, resumes, articles or any similar documents. The updated version of DOC is DOCX which is based on Office OpenXML whose specifications are openly available.
Read MoreOther Supported Conversions
Using C#, one can easily convert different formats including.