German 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 German.

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.German

This package contains 61 OCR languages for .NET:

  • German
  • GermanBest
  • GermanFast
  • GermanFraktur

Download

German Language Pack [Deutsch]

Installation

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

PM> Install-Package IronOCR.Languages.German

Code Example

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

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

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

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

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