Welcome to the 7th of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released. Just in time for the Scribd ''Most Interesting Hard Drive Contest'', here's a free application that can scan ...

   Welcome to the sixth of 31 applications we will post (in addition to the contest participants' submissions). Make sure you add this blog to your RSS / Atom feed and check the gallery for summaries of all the apps as they are released. This app is a frivolous way to solve the general problem ''how do I detect and act on the content ...

I am using the GlyphReader  OCR engine - my questions is: can the ocr engine report back to me the rotation of a page. The engine/encoder correctly rotates the page during output to PDF if I set the appropriate property on the PDF encoder - but I want some method to rotate a page as it is scanned in - my plan is to peform some quick ocr on a ...

Like the subject says, I'm trying to convert multipage TIFFs into searchable PDF's using the Expervision OCR engine.  I tried the same code used in the GlyphReader example, but it only converts the first page of the TIFF.  In other words, I get a single-page searchable PDF containing only the first image in the PDF.  So is there a ...

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 ...

I have an application that allows the user to process several Tiff images - ocr, save, select next image, ocr, save and so on. My question is, would you  recommend opening a single global instance of the ocrengine that is used to process all the images (assuming that only one thread is going to use the engine) and close it down when app ...

When deploying to a client's machine, you do not need to install the SDK.  You simply need to copy the referenced .NET assemblies and the GlyphReader dll's to a single folder.  If you do this, you'll need to include the GlyphReaderLoader class in a static method of your project per instructions in the documentation ...

I want to draw rectangles onto an AtalaImage - these will ultimately be used for defining OCR regions/zones - my question is: should I be using the Annotate tools to do this or go a bit more low level and use the rubber-band object or other.

I got the following reply (underline) from your sales rep. In order to get an Image only PDF into DotImage you need the PDFRasterizer. Then the Image can be put into OCR to create Searchable PDF. I couldn't find any PDFRasterizer demo or sample code. Can you give me the directions? My goal is to convert from an image only PDF file ...

You will need DotImage 4.0 for GlyphReader OCR.  As of version 2.1 of DotImage, all subsequent versions of the SDK are completely independant and can be installed side by side.  You can install DotImage 4.0 and DotImage 3.0 at the same time.  In order to upgrade your application from 3.0 to 4.0, you'll need to change the references ...