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 As New IronTesseract()

        ' Load the image directly with IronOCR
        Using Input As 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

• 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.