LEADTOOLS OCR功能提供了将光学字符识别(OCR)技术融合到应用程序中的方法。OCR可将位图图像转换为文本。
一旦在系统中安装LEADTOOLS .NET OCR工具包,用户便可以在程序中使用LEADTOOLS OCR。需要注意的是,在用户使用OCR属性,方法和事件之前,必须对OCR功能解锁。
用户可以添加引用到Leadtools.Forms.Ocr.dll和 Leadtools.Forms.DocumentWriter.dll组件从而启动LEADTOOLS for .NET OCR。这些组件包含了各种接口、类、结构和委托。
由于LEADTOOLS OCR工具包支持多个引擎,一旦创建了IOcrEngine接口实例,与引擎接口的实际代码便被存储在一个被动态加载的单独程序集中。因此,你必须确保即将使用的引擎程序集位于旁边的Leadtools.Forms.Ocr.dll组件。如果你需要自动检测依赖关系,你可以将引擎程序集作为引用添加到程序中。
LEADTOOLS提供了实现下列功能的方法:
LEADTOOLS通过OCR手柄与OCR引擎和包含的页面列表的OCR文档进行交互。OCR手柄是安装在系统上的LEADTOOLS OCR和OCR引擎之间的通信会话。OCR手柄是一种内部结构,包含了识别、获取信息、设置信息和文本验证的所有必要信息。
识别单页或多页的步骤如下:
1、选择所需引擎类型并创建IOcrEngine接口实例;
2、利用 IOcrEngine.Startup方法启动OCR引擎;
3、简单单页或多页OCR文档;
4、手动或自动创建页面区域;
5、设置OCR引擎所需的活动语言;
6、设置拼写检查语言;
7、识别;
8、保存识别结果;
9、关闭OCR引擎。
步骤4,5,6和7可以不必依照顺序进行,只要在OCR引擎启动后和页面识别之间执行这几个步骤即可。
下面的示例展示了如何执行上述步骤:
Visual Basic
' Assuming you added "Imports Leadtools.Forms.Ocr" and "Imports Leadtools.Forms.DocumentWriter" at the beginning of this class
' *** Step 1: Select the engine type and create an instance of the IOcrEngine interface.
' We will use the LEADTOOLS OCR Plus engine and use it in the same process
Dim ocrEngine As IOcrEngine = OcrEngineManager.CreateEngine(OcrEngineType.Plus, False)
' *** Step 2: Startup the engine.
' Use the default parameters
ocrEngine.Startup(Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, "C:\LEADTOOLS 18\Bin\Common\OcrAdvantageRuntime")
' *** Step 3: Create an OCR document with one or more pages.
Dim ocrDocument As IOcrDocument = ocrEngine.DocumentManager.CreateDocument()
' Add all the pages of a multi-page TIF image to the document
ocrDocument.Pages.AddPages("C:\Users\Public\Documents\LEADTOOLS Images\Ocr.tif", 1, -1, Nothing)
' *** Step 4: Establish zones on the page(s), either manually or automatically
' Automatic zoning
ocrDocument.Pages.AutoZone(Nothing)
' *** Step 5: (Optional) Set the active languages to be used by the OCR engine
' Enable English and German languages
ocrEngine.LanguageManager.EnableLanguages(New String() {"en", "de"})
' *** Step 6: (Optional) Set the spell checking language
' Enable the spell checking system and set English as the spell language
ocrEngine.SpellCheckManager.SpellCheckEngine = OcrSpellCheckEngine.Native
ocrEngine.SpellCheckManager.SpellLanguage = "en"
' *** Step 7: (Optional) Set any special recognition module options
' Change the fill method for the first zone in the first page to be Omr
Dim ocrZone As OcrZone = ocrDocument.Pages(0).Zones(0)
ocrZone.FillMethod = OcrZoneFillMethod.Omr
ocrDocument.Pages(0).Zones(0) = ocrZone
' *** Step 8: Recognize
ocrDocument.Pages.Recognize(Nothing)
' *** Step 9: Save recognition results
' Save the results to a PDF file
ocrDocument.Save("C:\Users\Public\Documents\LEADTOOLS Images\Document.pdf", DocumentFormat.Pdf, Nothing)
ocrDocument.Dispose()
' *** Step 10: Shut down the OCR engine when finished
ocrEngine.Shutdown()
ocrEngine.Dispose()
C#
// Assuming you added "using Leadtools.Codecs;", "using Leadtools.Forms.Ocr;" and "using Leadtools.Forms.DocumentWriters;" at the beginning of this class
// *** Step 1: Select the engine type and create an instance of the IOcrEngine interface.
// We will use the LEADTOOLS OCR Plus engine and use it in the same process
IOcrEngine ocrEngine = OcrEngineManager.CreateEngine(OcrEngineType.Advantage, false);
// *** Step 2: Startup the engine.
// Use the default parameters
ocrEngine.Startup(null, null, null, @"C:\LEADTOOLS 18\Bin\Common\OcrAdvantageRuntime");
// *** Step 3: Create an OCR document with one or more pages.
IOcrDocument ocrDocument = ocrEngine.DocumentManager.CreateDocument();
// Add all the pages of a multi-page TIF image to the document
ocrDocument.Pages.AddPages(@"C:\Users\Public\Documents\LEADTOOLS Images\Ocr.tif", 1, -1, null);
// *** Step 4: Establish zones on the page(s), either manually or automatically
// Automatic zoning
ocrDocument.Pages.AutoZone(null);
// *** Step 5: (Optional) Set the active languages to be used by the OCR engine
// Enable English and German languages
ocrEngine.LanguageManager.EnableLanguages(new string[] { "en", "de" });
// *** Step 6: (Optional) Set the spell checking language
// Enable the spell checking system and set English as the spell language
ocrEngine.SpellCheckManager.SpellCheckEngine = OcrSpellCheckEngine.Native;
ocrEngine.SpellCheckManager.SpellLanguage = "en";
// *** Step 7: (Optional) Set any special recognition module options
// Change the fill method for the first zone in the first page to be default
OcrZone ocrZone = ocrDocument.Pages[0].Zones[0];
ocrZone.FillMethod = OcrZoneFillMethod.Default;
ocrDocument.Pages[0].Zones[0] = ocrZone;
// *** Step 8: Recognize
ocrDocument.Pages.Recognize(null);
// *** Step 9: Save recognition results
// Save the results to a PDF file
ocrDocument.Save(@"C:\Users\Public\Documents\LEADTOOLS Images\Document.pdf", DocumentFormat.Pdf, null);
ocrDocument.Dispose();
// *** Step 10: Shut down the OCR engine when finished
ocrEngine.Shutdown();
ocrEngine.Dispose();