OCR a Region of an Image

This examples renders a 41% speed improvement by choosing a specific area of an image to perform OCR in .NET. These are called ContentAreas or CropAreas.

How to Crop Specific Area of Image in C#

  1. Download a C# library to crop specific area of an image
  2. Instantiate the IronTesseract class
  3. Instantiate the CropRectangle object with the specified region
  4. Use the AddImage method to add the image along with the crop details
  5. Use the Read method to read from the specified region