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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 languages, including Sinhala.

It is an advanced fork of Tesseract, built exclusively for .NET developers, and regularly outperforms other Tesseract engines in 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 the Sinhala OCR package into your .NET project.

Install-Package IronOCR.Languages.Sinhala

Code Example

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

// Import the IronOcr namespace
using IronOcr;

class SinhalaOcrExample
{
    static void Main()
    {
        // Initialize the IronTesseract OCR engine
        var Ocr = new IronTesseract();

        // Set the OCR engine to use the Sinhala language
        Ocr.Language = OcrLanguage.Sinhala;

        // Define the input image or PDF file
        using (var Input = new OcrInput(@"images\Sinhala.png"))
        {
            // Perform OCR on the input
            var Result = Ocr.Read(Input);

            // Retrieve the recognized text
            var AllText = Result.Text;

            // Output the recognized text
            Console.WriteLine(AllText);
        }
    }
}
// Import the IronOcr namespace
using IronOcr;

class SinhalaOcrExample
{
    static void Main()
    {
        // Initialize the IronTesseract OCR engine
        var Ocr = new IronTesseract();

        // Set the OCR engine to use the Sinhala language
        Ocr.Language = OcrLanguage.Sinhala;

        // Define the input image or PDF file
        using (var Input = new OcrInput(@"images\Sinhala.png"))
        {
            // Perform OCR on the input
            var Result = Ocr.Read(Input);

            // Retrieve the recognized text
            var AllText = Result.Text;

            // Output the recognized text
            Console.WriteLine(AllText);
        }
    }
}
' Import the IronOcr namespace
Imports IronOcr

Friend Class SinhalaOcrExample
	Shared Sub Main()
		' Initialize the IronTesseract OCR engine
		Dim Ocr = New IronTesseract()

		' Set the OCR engine to use the Sinhala language
		Ocr.Language = OcrLanguage.Sinhala

		' Define the input image or PDF file
		Using Input = New OcrInput("images\Sinhala.png")
			' Perform OCR on the input
			Dim Result = Ocr.Read(Input)

			' Retrieve the recognized text
			Dim AllText = Result.Text

			' Output the recognized text
			Console.WriteLine(AllText)
		End Using
	End Sub
End Class
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Explanation:

  • IronTesseract: This is the main OCR engine class used for text recognition.
  • Language: Specifies the language of the text to be recognized; in this case, Sinhala.
  • OcrInput: Represents the input file (image or PDF) where text recognition needs to be performed.
  • Read: Executes the OCR process on the input file and returns the recognized text.
  • Result.Text: Contains the OCR-recognized text from the input file, which can be used for further processing or display.