Read Scanned Document
This code example demonstrates how to use the IronTesseract OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine to extract text from an image.
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using IronOcr;
using System;
// Instantiate OCR engine
var ocr = new IronTesseract();
// Configure OCR engine
using var input = new OcrInput();
input.LoadImage("potter.tiff");
// Perform OCR
OcrResult result = ocr.ReadDocument(input);
Console.WriteLine(result.Text);Imports IronOcr
Imports System
' Instantiate OCR engine
Private ocr = New IronTesseract()
' Configure OCR engine
Private input = New OcrInput()
input.LoadImage("potter.tiff")
' Perform OCR
Dim result As OcrResult = ocr.ReadDocument(input)
Console.WriteLine(result.Text)
