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IOcrProvider

Interface

Contract for OCR engines that extract text from images for search, selection, or analysis.

Definition

Assembly:Telerik.Windows.Documents.Core.dll

Syntax:

public interface IOcrProvider

Gets or sets the parsing granularity used by the OCR engine (word- or line-level).

OcrParseLevel ParseLevel { get; set; }

Extract all text from the image and return a single concatenated string.

string GetAllTextFromImage(byte[] imageBytes)

Parameters:imageBytesbyte[]

The bytes of the image.

Returns:

The entire text as a string.

Extract text with word-level bounding boxes, returning a map of regions to recognized strings.

Dictionary<Rectangle, string> GetTextFromImage(byte[] imageBytes)

Parameters:imageBytesbyte[]

The bytes of the image.

Returns:

Words with corresponding bounding rectangles