Using Older Versions of System.Drawing with IronOCR

Possible Solutions

• Update System.Drawing.Common to a current, supported version. The older version of System.Drawing is out of support and may contain vulnerable code.

• Load the image with OcrInput.LoadImage, which accepts a file path, byte[], Stream, or IronSoftware.Drawing.AnyBitmap. In current IronOCR, OcrInput has a parameterless constructor and handles image loading internally, so you do not need SixLabors.ImageSharp or System.Drawing to prepare the input.

  using IronOcr;
  
  class Program
  {
    static void Main()
    {
        var Ocr = new IronTesseract();
  
        // Load the image directly with IronOCR
        using (var Input = new OcrInput())
        {
            Input.LoadImage("image.jpg");
  
            // Perform OCR on the input
            var Result = Ocr.Read(Input);
  
            // Print the recognized text
            Console.WriteLine(Result.Text);
        }
    }
  }

  using IronOcr;
  
  class Program
  {
    static void Main()
    {
        var Ocr = new IronTesseract();
  
        // Load the image directly with IronOCR
        using (var Input = new OcrInput())
        {
            Input.LoadImage("image.jpg");
  
            // Perform OCR on the input
            var Result = Ocr.Read(Input);
  
            // Print the recognized text
            Console.WriteLine(Result.Text);
        }
    }
  }

  Imports IronOcr
  
  Class Program
      Shared Sub Main()
          Dim Ocr = New IronTesseract()
  
          ' Load the image directly with IronOCR
          Using Input = New OcrInput()
              Input.LoadImage("image.jpg")
  
              ' Perform OCR on the input
              Dim Result = Ocr.Read(Input)
  
              ' Print the recognized text
              Console.WriteLine(Result.Text)
          End Using
      End Sub
  End Class

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• The above code initializes an instance of IronTesseract, loads an image from a file with OcrInput.LoadImage, and then processes the image with IronOCR to extract text.