A Toolkit/Component Control/Component by LEAD Technologies, Inc.

LEADTOOLS makes OCR development easier with auto-zone detection, manual zone creation, auto-orientation, document image clean up, and the use of preset values for common document images to improve recognition results. The LEADTOOLS OCR Module supports over 100 languages, output document options like document margins, paragraph options and more, and new output formats.

Output formats supported:

Adobe PDF edited
Open eBook 1.0
XML
2G Type 2
2G Type 3
And more.

Additional Features:

-Recognize text from 5 to 72 points in virtually any typeface.
-Automatically detects available zones in the document pages.
-Recognize multiple document pages at once and save recognition result to single file.
-OCR engine can recognize document with multiple languages.
-Recognize and export text, choosing from a variety of text, word processing, database, or spreadsheet file formats.
-Process documents in two-page mode for open-faced books and magazines.
-And more...

Three specialized OCR recognition engines are supported. Each document may contain multiple OCR zones and each zone may use any of the following OCR engines:

MOR OCR Engine

This module recognizes machine printed text; i.e. from printed publications, laser or ink-jet printers and electric typewriters. Output from mechanical typewriters in good condition may also be acceptable. It should also be used for letter or near letter quality (LQ, NLQ) output from dot-matrix printers.

This module can safely handle A3 size (11.69" x 16.54") both portrait and landscape images with 300 dpi resolution.

-Supports 114 languages
-Supports up to 500 zones on one image
-Supports Omnifont, Draftdot24 and OCR-A filling methods
-Provides 3 page-level accuracy and speed trade off settings including Accurate, Balanced and Fast
-Provides Checking Subsystem based correction

MTX (Mtext) OCR Engine

This recognition module recognizes machine printed text; i.e. from printed publications, laser or ink-jet printers and electric typewriters. Output from mechanical typewriters in good condition may also be acceptable. It should also be used for Letter or Near Letter Quality output from dot-matrix printers, and can also be used for Draft Quality. Only images with the following resolution ranges are supported: 90-110, 160-240, 280-320, 400, 600. This module does not process images larger than 6600 pixels in either width or height, that is it can safely handle A3 size (11.69" x 16.54") both portrait and landscape images with 300 dpi resolution.

-The fastest of the selectable OCR engines
-Support for 12 languages
-Supports up to 64 zones on one image
-Supports Omnifont, Draftdot9 and Draftdot24 filling methods
-Provides 2 page-level accuracy and speed trade off settings including a combined Accurate &
-Balanced value and Fast
-Provides Checking Subsystem based correction

FireWorX OCR Engine

This module recognizes machine printed text; i.e. from printed publications, laser or ink-jet printers and electric typewriters. Output from mechanical typewriters in good condition may also be acceptable. It should also be used for letter or near letter quality (NLQ, LQ) output from dot-matrix printers.

-Optimized for speed
-Support for 54 languages
-Supports up to 2,500 zones on one image
-Supports Omnifont filling methods