Malayalam OCR in C# and .NET

Updated: April 23, 2026

IronOCR is a C# software component allowing .NET coders to read text from images and PDF documents in 126 languages, including Malayalam. 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.Malayalam

This package contains 126 OCR languages for .NET:

Malayalam
MalayalamBest
MalayalamFast
MalayalamAlphabet
MalayalamAlphabetBest
MalayalamAlphabetFast

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Malayalam Language Pack [മലയാളം]

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Install with NuGet

Installation

The first thing we have to do is install the Malayalam OCR package into your .NET project.

PM > Install-Package IronOcr.Languages.Malayalam

Install-Package IronOcr.Languages.Malayalam

Code Example

This C# code example reads Malayalam text from an Image or PDF document.

// Import the IronOcr namespace
using IronOcr;

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        // Create a new instance of IronTesseract
        var Ocr = new IronTesseract();
        
        // Set the language to Malayalam
        Ocr.Language = OcrLanguage.Malayalam;
        
        // Process the image to extract text using OCR
        using (var Input = new OcrInput(@"images\Malayalam.png"))
        {
            // Read the text from the input object
            var Result = Ocr.Read(Input);
            
            // Extract and store the recognized text
            var AllText = Result.Text;
            
            // Output the recognized text
            Console.WriteLine(AllText);
        }
    }
}

// Import the IronOcr namespace
using IronOcr;

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        // Create a new instance of IronTesseract
        var Ocr = new IronTesseract();
        
        // Set the language to Malayalam
        Ocr.Language = OcrLanguage.Malayalam;
        
        // Process the image to extract text using OCR
        using (var Input = new OcrInput(@"images\Malayalam.png"))
        {
            // Read the text from the input object
            var Result = Ocr.Read(Input);
            
            // Extract and store the recognized text
            var AllText = Result.Text;
            
            // Output the recognized text
            Console.WriteLine(AllText);
        }
    }
}

' Import the IronOcr namespace
Imports IronOcr

Module Program
    Sub Main()
        ' Create a new instance of IronTesseract
        Dim Ocr As New IronTesseract()

        ' Set the language to Malayalam
        Ocr.Language = OcrLanguage.Malayalam

        ' Process the image to extract text using OCR
        Using Input As New OcrInput("images\Malayalam.png")
            ' Read the text from the input object
            Dim Result = Ocr.Read(Input)

            ' Extract and store the recognized text
            Dim AllText = Result.Text

            ' Output the recognized text
            Console.WriteLine(AllText)
        End Using
    End Sub
End Module

' Import the IronOcr namespace
Imports IronOcr

Module Program
    Sub Main()
        ' Create a new instance of IronTesseract
        Dim Ocr As New IronTesseract()

        ' Set the language to Malayalam
        Ocr.Language = OcrLanguage.Malayalam

        ' Process the image to extract text using OCR
        Using Input As New OcrInput("images\Malayalam.png")
            ' Read the text from the input object
            Dim Result = Ocr.Read(Input)

            ' Extract and store the recognized text
            Dim AllText = Result.Text

            ' Output the recognized text
            Console.WriteLine(AllText)
        End Using
    End Sub
End Module

The code demonstrates setting up IronOCR to perform OCR on a specified image with the Malayalam language.
The OcrInput object is used to input the image file.
The Ocr.Read function processes the image and extracts the text.
The extracted text is stored in AllText and printed to the console.

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