Dosadi - OCR Resources

OCR / ICR Resources

No current Dosadi product provides built-in OCR i.e. of reading the text in a scanned image. However EZTwain Pro 3.20 can interoperate with the Transym TOCR product, and this ability is being migrated into both EZTwainX and Acquire. When combined with the TOCR software, EZTwain Pro provides a convenient OCR SDK with strong scanning features - hiding the complex TOCR interface and making it accessible from a wide variety of programming languages.

Below is a list of OCR engines packaged for developers. If you have developer experience with an OCR engine or a suggestion for this page, please e-mail us or post in our forums.

Product	Vendor	Comments	Reviews
AdLib Express	Adlib Software	Automated conversion of scanned documents to PDF
Adobe Acrobat	Adobe	(not the Acrobat Reader) can scan to PDF, including OCR of the scanned text.
BizCardReader OCR	CardReader Inc.	omnifont, callable from VB, OEM licensing available
I.R.I.S. Toolkit iDRS	IRIS
KADMOS	re Recognition GmbH	machine printed, hand printed, ICR fonts, marks	comments
iREAD Forms	Charactell
OCR module	LeadTools	One of the oldest imaging component vendors. Option for PDF output.
OmniPage Capture	ScanSoft
SimpleOCR	The Scan Store		PC Magazine 2004
Transym OCR	Transym	40USD/machine - English only, or European.	Recommended by Dosadi, directly supported by EZTwain Pro. Customer comments.
Tesseract	free open-source	Open-Source project sponsored by Google.