Asprise OCR is a commercial

optical character recognition Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scen ...

and barcode recognition SDK library that provides an API to recognize text as well as barcodes from images (in formats like JPEG, PNG,

TIFF Tag Image File Format, abbreviated TIFF or TIF, is an image file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and photographers. TIFF is widely supported by scanning, faxing, word processin ...

, PDF, etc.) and output in formats like plain text, xml and searchable

PDF Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. ...

. Asprise OCR has been in active development since 1997. Version 2.1 of the software has been reviewed by PC World. Many researchers have used Asprise OCR along with ABBYY FineReader to benchmark OCR performance. Paweł Łupkowski and Mariusz Urbanski from

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uses Asprise OCR version 4 and ABBYY FineReader to perform CAPTCHA recognition. Shuai Yuan from

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implemented an image based room schedule retrieval system using Asprise OCR. Seongwook Youn from

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found "By running a sample of 200 image e-mails, we determined that Asprise OCR was performing with an accuracy of 95%. It had the best detection rate among the approaches we analyzed; hence we decided to go with Asprise OCR for our research.". Adil Farooq from the University of Engineering and Technology in

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implemented a speech based interface system for visually impaired persons. Hsieh analyzes the workflow of Asprise OCR engine and applies it to detect scoreboard for baseball videos. Chaisri discusses how Asprise OCR can be used for imaging analysis of fax documents in IT Convergence and Services: ITCS & IRoA 2011. Petra demonstrates how to perform feature selection for anti-spam using Asprise OCR. The following languages are supported by Asprise version 5: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish or Turkish. MRZ and MICR are supported. The latest version of Asprise OCR SDK is v15.Asprise OCR API Library v15 for Java, C# VB.NET
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{{OCR Optical character recognition Computer-related introductions in 1998