asprise_ocr_sdk_python_api

Asprise OCR SDK with Data Capture - the Ultimate Royalty Free OCR Engine

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Install and Run the Sample OCR Application

You may install with Python's pip either from a Unix/Linux shell or Windows command console: ::

> pip install asprise_ocr_sdk_python_api       # Windows

$ sudo pip install asprise_ocr_sdk_python_api  # Linux/Mac OS X

A sample front-end GUI for the OCR engine will be installed as a script named 'asprise_ocr'. You can run the following command in the same shell/console: ::

asprise_ocr

The following are the screenshots on Linux and Windows respectively:

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Invoke Asprise OCR API from Your Own Code

.. code-block:: python

from asprise_ocr_api import *

ocr = Ocr()
ocr.start_engine("eng")  # deu, fra, por, spa - more than 30 languages are supported
text = ocr.recognize(
    "PATH_TO_INPUT_IMAGE.tif",  # gif, jpg, pdf, png, tif, etc.
    OCR_PAGES_ALL,  # the index of the selected page
    -1, -1, -1, -1,  # you may optionally specify a region on the page instead of the whole page
    OCR_RECOGNIZE_TYPE_TEXT,  # recognize type: TEXT, BARCODES or ALL
    OCR_OUTPUT_FORMAT_PLAINTEXT  # output format: TEXT, XML, or PDF
)
print "Result: " + text

# ocr.recognize(more_images...)

ocr.stop_engine()

Asprise OCR Programming Guide

Developer's Guide: http://asprise.com/royalty-free-library/python-ocr-barcode-reader-sdk-samples-docs.html

We'd Like to Hear From You

Asprise OCR supports more than twenty languages, however only five popular languages are included in this trial kit. Please contact us if you need to evaluate other languages.

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