Scan to Text

The Aspose.OCR Scan to Text for .NET Plugin is built to process high volumes of scanned images—contracts, books, agreements, articles, or reports—extracting text with high fidelity, even from complex multi-column layouts.

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Scan to Text Key Features

  1. Accurate Text Extraction from Scans Recognize text from flatbed scans, multi-page TIFFs, or image-based PDFs with advanced OCR technology.

  2. Multi-Column and Complex Layout Support Extract from books, newspapers, or forms—preserving text order and reading flow.

  3. Batch and Multi-Page Processing Process folders of scans, or extract from multi-page documents in a single run.

  4. Preprocessing Filters for Quality Automatically improve scan quality with binarization, deskew, denoise, and more.

  5. Multi-Language and Handwriting Recognition Support for Latin, Cyrillic, Asian scripts, and even basic handwritten text.

  6. Watermark-Free Output Unlock full plugin functionality and watermark-free results by applying your metered license with SetMeteredKey().

Where Can the Scan to Text Plugin Be Used?

  • Document Management Systems: Index, search, and archive scanned documents for quick retrieval.
  • Legal, Medical, and Financial Sectors: Digitize agreements, patient records, or statements from image archives.
  • Academic and Publishing: Extract and repurpose content from books, articles, and journals.
  • Government and Compliance: Digitize public records or compliance documents for search and reporting.
  • Bulk Digitization Projects: Convert libraries, archives, or research collections into machine-readable text.

Basic Example: Extract Text from a Scanned Image 

using Aspose.OCR;

string scanFile = "contract_scan.tif";
OcrInput input = new OcrInput(InputType.SingleImage);
input.Add(scanFile);
RecognitionSettings settings = new RecognitionSettings();
settings.Language = Language.English;
AsposeOcr ocr = new AsposeOcr();
var results = ocr.Recognize(input, settings);
Console.WriteLine(results[0].RecognitionText);
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