LEAD Technologies offers a full range of OCR SDK technology suitable for any application that needs to convert scanned images into text, documents and PDF.

Overview of LEADTOOLS OCR SDK Technology

• OCR is available as C DLL, .NET classes, WCF OCR services and WF OCR activities.
• Multithreaded support for running OCR in high performance server-based applications hosted in Windows services, Web services and Windows WF hosted applications.
• 32 and 64 bit OCR binaries.
• Broad OCR language character set support including Asian and Arabic.
• Full page and zonal OCR.
• OCR integrates seamlessly with Forms Recognition and Processing SDK technology.
• Built-in and custom spelling dictionaries to improve OCR results.
• Manually or automatically (using LEAD's AutoZone technology) segment source images into text,
  image and table OCR zones.
• Save OCR output to memory or any of over 40 formats including text searchable PDF and PDF/A.
• MICR OCR support for check processing.
• Multiple interchangeable OCR engines.
• Powerful document image cleanup and preprocessing functions to improve OCR results of scanned images.

Other LEADTOOLS SDK Technologies Related to OCR

• Form Image Recognition and Processing
• Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) for processing hand written text
• Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) for capturing data from surveys and tests
• Barcode
• Fast TWAIN Scanning
• Document Image Processing
• WCF Services
• WF Activities

Why Choose LEADTOOLS Recognition Technology?

• Multithread-safe OCR SDK.
• Supports 32 and 64 bit development.
• Ease of use means converting an image to a PDF can be done in three lines of code.
• Supports full page or zonal OCR. Zones can either be automatically or manually generated.
• Use LEADTOOLS image processing functions such as document cleanup to improve recognition results.
• Recognize text in low quality images such as those created with dot matrix printers.
• Recognize a variety of documents, including facsimiles, photocopies and documents with complex layouts.
• Integrates with the LEADTOOLS Forms Recognition technology to improve form recognition confidence and adds forms processing functionality.

LEADTOOLS SDK Products that Include OCR SDK Technology

OCR Product Comparison Chart

• LEADTOOLS Recognition Imaging SDK
• LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite SDK
• LEADTOOLS OCR Advantage SDK Module
• LEADTOOLS OCR Plus Module
• LEADTOOLS OCR Professional Module