Nicomsoft OCR SDK is a toolkit designed to help you easily integrate optical character recognition functionality in your applications.
While the recognition quality delivered by Nicomsoft OCR is on a par with the premium OCR packages on the market, we also offer a royalty-free licensing policy. This gives our customers the lowest total cost of ownership of a quality OCR system, enabling them to create software products that are more competitive.
Nicomsoft OCR SDK contains several sample projects in different programming languages.
Here are some key features of "Nicomsoft OCR SDK":
· Unique character analysis technology delivering reliable recognition of any fonts even in poor-quality images
· Excellent analysis algorithms for poor-quality text, distorted, connected and broken characters
· Dictionaries are used for the best recognition
· English, German, French, Spanish and Russian languages support
· ICR module for handwritten digits
· Full support of multiple-core CPUs, speeding up analysis of even a single text fragment through efficient parallel processing of recognition
· Support of multiple image formats: BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF and many others
· Intuitive API interface and Nicomsoft OCR usage examples for various programming languages
· Both native x86 and x64 binaries are available
Limitations:
· 45 days trial
· About two times slower than licensed version
· x64 binaries are not included
· Nag screen
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Improved recognition quality.
· Improved spaces detection algorithm.
· Improved deskew algorithm performance.
· Added option to disable dictionary.
· Simplified working with strings when OCR used as COM object.
· Changed MaxLen definiton for all API functions that return strings,check updated samples.
· A lot of minor improvements and bug fixes.