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French OCR in C# and .NET

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IronOCR is a C# software component allowing .NET coders to read text from images and PDF documents in 126 language, including French.

It is an advanced fork of Tesseract, built exclusively for the .NET developers and regularly outperforms other Tesseract engines for both speed and accuracy.

Contents of IronOcr.Languages.French

This package contains 43 OCR languages for .NET:

  • French
  • FrenchBest
  • FrenchFast

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French Language Pack [français]

Installation

The first thing we have to do is install our French OCR package to your .NET project.

PM> Install-Package IronOCR.Languages.French

Code Example

This C# code example reads French text from an Image or PDF document.

//PM> Install-Package IronOcr.Languages.French
using IronOcr;

var Ocr = new IronTesseract();
Ocr.Language = OcrLanguage.French;
using (var Input = new OcrInput(@"images\French.png"))
{
    var Result = Ocr.Read(Input);
    var AllText =  Result.Text;
}
//PM> Install-Package IronOcr.Languages.French
using IronOcr;

var Ocr = new IronTesseract();
Ocr.Language = OcrLanguage.French;
using (var Input = new OcrInput(@"images\French.png"))
{
    var Result = Ocr.Read(Input);
    var AllText =  Result.Text;
}
'PM> Install-Package IronOcr.Languages.French
Imports IronOcr

Private Ocr = New IronTesseract()
Ocr.Language = OcrLanguage.French
Using Input = New OcrInput("images\French.png")
	Dim Result = Ocr.Read(Input)
	Dim AllText = Result.Text
End Using
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