Sinhala 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 Sinhala.

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.Sinhala

This package contains 114 OCR languages for .NET:

  • Sinhala
  • SinhalaBest
  • SinhalaFast
  • SinhalaAlphabet
  • SinhalaAlphabetBest
  • SinhalaAlphabetFast

Download

Sinhala Language Pack [සිංහල]

Installation

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

PM> Install-Package IronOCR.Languages.Sinhala

Code Example

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

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

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

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

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