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Amharic OCR in C# and .NET

Curtis Chau
Curtis Chau
Updated: August 2, 2026
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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 Amharic.

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.Amharic

This package contains 46 OCR languages for .NET:

  • Amharic
  • AmharicBest
  • AmharicFast

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Amharic Language Pack [አማርኛ]

Installation

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

PM > Install-Package IronOcr.Languages.Amharic

Code Example

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

// Install the necessary Amharic language package for IronOCR
// PM> Install-Package IronOcr.Languages.Amharic
using IronOcr;

var Ocr = new IronTesseract(); // Create a new instance of the IronTesseract OCR engine
Ocr.Language = OcrLanguage.Amharic; // Set the OCR language to Amharic

// Read text from an image
using (var Input = new OcrInput(@"images\Amharic.png")) // Specify the path to the image file
{
    var Result = Ocr.Read(Input); // Perform OCR on the input image
    var AllText = Result.Text; // Get the extracted text from the OCR result
    // The variable 'AllText' contains the text in Amharic read from the image
}
Curtis Chau
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Curtis Chau holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (Carleton University) and specializes in front-end development with expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, and React. Passionate about crafting intuitive and aesthetically pleasing user interfaces, Curtis enjoys working with modern frameworks and creating well-structured, visually appealing manuals.

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  1. Download and unzip IronOCR to a location such as ~/Libs within your Solution directory
  2. In Visual Studio Solution Explorer, right click References. Select Browse, "IronOCR.dll"

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