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OCR in .Net 2022.12.10830

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Product Page: https://ironsoftware.com/csharp/ocr/technology/ocr-net/

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Iron OCR has been specifically designed for use in .NET applications, including console applications, Windows Form Applications, WPF, and web applications such as Windows Forms and MVC. It is built on top of the Tesseract platform, but adds additional functionality, making Tesseract more usable in the real world. https://ironsoftware.com/csharp/ocr/technology/ocr-net/ and https://www.nuget.org/packages/IronOcr/

Iron OCR has been designed with developers in mind, allowing for rapid OCR setup within .NET projects. OCR requires a lot of preprocessing of images to make them readable by OCR libraries, which expect almost perfect input.

Iron OCR can automatically detect the properties of an image, a screenshot, photographs, scans, or PDF document and adjust itself accordingly, preprocessing the images so the OCR is likely to have over 95% accuracy without any settings being adjusted or any Photoshop work on behalf of the client organization.

Language packs are available for multiple languages including: Language packs available for Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. Language packs can be found here: https://ironsoftware.com/csharp/ocr/languages/

Iron OCR can be used with many other Iron products. It is commonly used with Iron Barcode. Iron OCR may be used to extract text from a document, whereas Iron Barcode can be used to detect barcodes with a higher degree of accuracy within a similar scan.

It may also be used with Iron PDF to repurpose content from scanned documents in new PDF documents. For more information, support, licensing questions please contact Iron Software. Product information can be found on the product page: https://ironsoftware.com/csharp/ocr/

CSVWriter Alternative 2022.12.11262

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Product Page: https://ironsoftware.com/csharp/excel/blog/compare-to-other-components/csvwriter-alternatives/

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Think about all the businesses lining your busy town’s marketplace. Almost every one of them is using some form of a spreadsheet-based piece of software to perform essential duties like inventory tracking, timesheets, promotional activities, and more. It could be something as simple as budgeting out the week for a pet grooming shop to tracking the progress of students from a private tutor. Whatever the need, your team shouldn’t waste time or money dealing with buggy open-source solutions or expensive upfront costs from Microsoft Excel and Excel Interop. Instead, you need the new CSVWriter alternative from IronSoftware.

This powerful new tool fully supports .NET 5/6, Core, Standard, Framework, and Azure without causing end users to flip between multiple applications or resources. This way, anyone can benefit from creating, editing, manipulating, and formatting spreadsheets without having to leave your native website or mobile project build. This is even based on a similar System.Data.DataSet and System.Data.DataTable objects from Excel your team will quickly recognize.

With the CSVWriter C# alternative, your end users will still be able to utilize the common formatting and style functions they use in similar programs. This includes being able to easily import and export popular file types like .xls, .xlsx, .json, .csv, .tsv, and many more. That means your end users will be able to generate custom reports, PDFs, and other documents essential to their daily operations.

The new CSVWriter alternative tool is 100% free to use while you are working through the development phase of creation. The only time you have to spend any financial resources is when you are finally prepared for full deployment. You can learn more about the various benefits at https://ironsoftware.com/csharp/excel/blog/compare-to-other-components/csvwriter-alternatives/ and download the complete package at https://www.nuget.org/packages/IronXL.Excel to get started.

Azure OCR Product 2022.12.10830

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Product Page: https://ironsoftware.com/csharp/ocr/technology/azure-ocr/

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It does Azure work with OCR? For Azure .Net applications you may wish to add optical character recognition functionality. IronOCR provides that functionality without ever sending your data outside of the ether application, helping to ensure the security of your data. IronOCR adds native OCR functionality to any .Net framework or core or standard application. This allows us to add OCR functionality to Azure without having to pay for a SAS service or any monthly fees. It uses the most advanced known build of Tesseract, which has been finely tuned for .Net and ACR work giving conventional users over 99.8% accuracy in a very fast API.
What kinds of features are available within Azure OCR? By looking at the IronOCR homepage, you will see that IronOCR adds functionality for advanced OCR using the Tesseract, five, four or three engines. OCR of PDF documents and multi-page tifs, multi-threaded OCR, OCR in 176 International languages, allowing any PDF or image to become a searchable PDF, OCR within rectangular areas of images. It also provides filters allowing us to optimize images automatically for OCR which can greatly improve speed and efficiency, including unrotated DSU, the removal of noise and color transformations. IronOCR can allow Azure to perform OCR in custom OCR languages using the .test data file format, which has become an industry standard. The results are returned as a results object model, which can be inspected for the content, accuracy, and alternative choices for any word paragraph line or character of text and also to find barcodes within any OCR document. In short, IronOCR provides a comprehensive Azure OCR functionality for .Net developers, which does not require a web service for its OCR functionality, does not require data to be sent across the internet and provides highly accurate results using the latest Tesseract five engine, which does not need to be installed on the host machine. IronOCR contains a custom build for C# of Tesseract five with