Java OCR and Barcode Recognition

High performance, royalty-free Java OCR and barcode recognition on Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Unix

Java OCR Demos

Basics

Programming with Asprise OCR is very straightforward. Below is the typical source code sample in Java to recognize images:

import com.asprise.ocr.Ocr
...

Ocr.setUp(); // one time setup
Ocr ocr = new Ocr(); // create a new OCR engine
ocr.startEngine("eng", Ocr.SPEED_FASTEST); // English
String s = ocr.recognize(new File[] {new File("test.png")},
  Ocr.RECOGNIZE_TYPE_ALL, Ocr.OUTPUT_FORMAT_PLAINTEXT); // PLAINTEXT | XML | PDF | RTF
System.out.println("Result: " + s);
ocr.stopEngine();

With the below sample input image:

Extract Text and Barcodes in Plain Text Format

Asprise OCR and Barcode Recognition

High performance, royalty-free OCR and barcode recognition on Windows,
...
ISBN-l3, Interleaved 2 of 5, Code 39, Code 128, PDF417, and QR Code.

[[QR-Code: www.asprise.com]]
[[CODE-128: Asprise]].

XML Format Provides Information Like Confidence and Coordinates & Tables

If you need additional information like accuracy confidence and text coordinates, you can select XML as the output format. Additionally, table information like rows and cells are also available in XML.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<asprise-ocr input="test-image.png">
  <page no="1" width="2400" height="3200" words="124" confidence="92">
    <block type="text"  x="320" y="248" width="1176" height="63" words="5" confidence="88">
Asprise OCR and Barcode Recognition
    </block>
...
    <block type="barcode" subtype="QR-Code" x="1397" y="1647" width="441" height="441">www.asprise.com</block>
    <block type="barcode" subtype="CODE-128" x="348" y="1651" width="583" height="147">Asprise</block>
  </page>
</asprise-ocr>

Click here to view the actual XML