CrystalOCR

CrystalOCR - is an OCR toolkit that allows developers to embed high-quality optical character recognition functionality in their products. While the recognition quality delivered by CrystalOCR is on a par with the premium OCR packages on the market, we also offer a royalty-free licensing policy. This gives our customers the lowest total cost of ownership of a quality OCR system, enabling them to create software products that are more competitive.

Key features:

- Support of many image formats: BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF and many others

- Support of multipage image formats (TIFF, GIF).

- Ability to load image from a file, memory or pixel data.

- Robust adaptive image binarization supports images with poor brightness or low contrast

- Ability to perform zonal OCR: select one or multiple areas for OCR

- Ability to specify different OCR options for different areas

- ICR module for handwritten digits

- Support of English, German, French, Spanish and Russian languages

- Ability to specify several languages for OCR

- Ability to specify different languages for different areas on an image

- Ability to use several CPU cores for even faster OCR

- Unique character analysis technology delivering reliable recognition of any fonts

- Advanced algorithms for poor-quality text, distorted, connected and broken characters

- Dictionaries are used for the best recognition

- Ability to exclude some characters from character set when necessary

- Ability to get additional information about text lines, words and characters: position, size, quality, etc

- Full Unicode support

- Simple API interface and sample projects for various programming languages: C#, C++, VB.NET, Delphi, C++ Builder, VB

- A wide set of supported frameworks and technologies that can use Crystal OCR: .NET, WPF, WCF, ASP.NET, Silverlight

- Both native x86 and x64 binaries are available