Convert TIFF to Text in C#

Perform optical character recognition on TIFF document and save text as TIFF document using Aspose.OCR for .NET library.

How to convert TIFF to Text using C#

Aspose.OCR for .NET is a powerful yet easy-to-use and cost-effective library for converting TIFF images to Text 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.

Aspose.OCR for .NET

processes scanned images or even smartphone photos in TIFF format and creates TIFF documents containing recognized text. To add it to your project, you just need to install the Aspose.OCR

NuGet

package in your project with the following command:

Package Manager Console Command
  PM> Install-Package Aspose.OCR

Steps to Convert TIFF to Text

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

Create an instance of AsposeOcr class
Call AsposeOCR.RecognizeImage method
Pass the TIFF file path as parameter
AsposeOCR.RecognizeImage returns a String or file of Text 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.

Live Code Sample

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Code to be executed - C#

// Initialize OCR engine
var recognitionEngine = new Aspose.OCR.AsposeOcr();
// Extract text from image
string result = recognitionEngine.RecognizeImage("<file name>");
// Display the recognition result
Console.WriteLine(result);

Recognition result

TIFF What is TIFF 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.

Text 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.

Other Supported Conversions

Using C#, one can easily convert different formats including.

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)