I purchased the OCR GlyphReader engine and would like to be able to OCR a portion of the image. For example I would like to be able to select a paragraph or word on the scanned image and OCR only the selected portion. I have never developed anything using the atalasoft components. So I was hoping someone would have a sample project that does something like I have described or I could atleast be pointed in the right direction. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Ryan 

Ryan,

There are some demos included with the SDK that should get you started.  However these demos do not recognize an area of the image.  Take a look at the Recognize methd in the OcrEngine object.  It lets you pass in a rectangular bounds to indicate the area you wish to OCR.  It returns an OcrPage element. If you iterate through each of the OcrRegions, and look for an OcrTextRegion, you'll find the text that was recognized.

I created a ZonalOcrDemo in C# attached to this post that should help you get started using zonal OCR.

I actually had no clue where to start on this project. So this is very helpful. Thanks Bill.