Convert TIFF to XML 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 XML using C#

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

With .NET OCR and just a few lines of code, you can create full-featured application that converts an TIFF image to XML 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 XML 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 TIFF to XML .NET Conversion
// initialize an instance of AsposeOcr
AsposeOcr ocr = new AsposeOcr();
// recognize image
string riText = ocr.RecognizeImage("template.TIFF");
// print text
File. File.WriteAllText("document.XML", riText);

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.

XML What is XML File Format

XML stands for Extensible Markup Language that is similar to HTML but different in using tags for defining objects. The whole idea behind creation of XML file format was to store and transport data without being dependent on software or hardware tools. Its popularity is due to it being both human as well as machine readable. This enables it to create common data protocols in the form of objects to be stored and shared over network such as World Wide Web (WWW). The “X” in XML is for extensible which implies that the language can be extended to any number of symbols as per user requirements. It is for these features that many standard file formats make use of it such as Microsoft Open XML, LibreOffice OpenDocument, XHTML and SVG.

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)