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Tesseract 5 for .NET
using IronOcr;
using System;

var ocrTesseract = new IronTesseract();

// This is done by default and can be omitted:
// ocrTesseract.Configuration.TesseractVersion = TesseractVersion.Tesseract5;

using var ocrInput = new OcrInput();
ocrInput.LoadImage(@"images\image.png");
var ocrResult = ocrTesseract.Read(ocrInput);
Console.WriteLine(ocrResult.Text);
Imports IronOcr
Imports System

Dim ocrTesseract = New IronTesseract()

' This is done by default and can be omitted:
' ocrTesseract.Configuration.TesseractVersion = TesseractVersion.Tesseract5

Using ocrInput = New OcrInput()
    ocrInput.LoadImage("images\image.png")
    Dim ocrResult = ocrTesseract.Read(ocrInput)
    Console.WriteLine(ocrResult.Text)
End Using
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Tesseract 5 for .NET

Tesseract 5 for .NET

With digital documents being the standard in modern enterprises and international business, having an OCR engine that depicts and extracts international languages is a key component to success in manipulating documents.

Tesseract 5 is one of the most capable open-source OCR engines available. However, it comes with a few caveats: It is not easily implemented and can be considered hard to use due to the higher barrier to entry.

However, IronOCR bridges that gap, allowing developers, both beginners and veterans, to utilize Tesseract 5 in a simple library. Furthermore, IronOCR provides a fully managed .NET implementation of Tesseract 5, with cross-compatibility for .NET Framework, Standard, Core, Xamarin, and Mono.

You can download a file project from this link.

This step-by-step code demonstrates how to implement IronOCR with Tesseract 5:

This brief guide provides a straightforward approach to integrating IronTesseract using IronOCR in .NET applications.

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