Any OCR SDK for Java

[Nishant Saini]

Does any body know any good OCR API for use in Java which provides
automatic straightening of image at the time of OCR and produces good
quality output. If the OCR API also provides region OCR facility then
that will be very useful for us otherwise we will have to OCR the
cropped images according to regions specified.

I have already tried Asprise OCR SDK but it does not provide Automatic
straightening and produces wrong output if the image is a bit tilted.
If somebody knows any tips on how to enable auto straightening in
Asprise, then welcome.

Thanks and regards,
Nishant Saini

[Raj]

Do you refer deskewing as Automatic straightening; Try any of these
following...pegasus imaging, abbey, parascript...But i am not sure
whether they give their sdks in java..

Post by Nishant Saini
Does any body know any good OCR API for use in Java which provides
automatic straightening of image at the time of OCR and produces good
quality output. If the OCR API also provides region OCR facility then
that will be very useful for us otherwise we will have to OCR the
cropped images according to regions specified.
I have already tried Asprise OCR SDK but it does not provide Automatic
straightening and produces wrong output if the image is a bit tilted.
If somebody knows any tips on how to enable auto straightening in
Asprise, then welcome.
Thanks and regards,
Nishant Saini

[Milind Joshi]

Hi Nishant,

Its not too hard to wrap a C-based SDK for use in Java. I know for sure
that re Recognition's KADMOS has a Java wrapper, we helped write it.

It doesn't have scanned-image level deskew, but it has the ability to
read skewed regions of text.

There are other SDKs, pegasus, leadtools, atalasoft, black ice, etc.
that can be used for full image deskewing.

Also, using a basic imaging SDK, it is not too hard to write a deskew
function yourself, especially if the image has black borders... you
could use the libtiff SDK and a little bit of research on angle-based
skew-detection of scanned document images.

Regards,
Milind Joshi
IDEA TECHNOSOFT INC.
http://www.ideatechnosoft.com

Post by Nishant Saini
Does any body know any good OCR API for use in Java which provides
automatic straightening of image at the time of OCR and produces good
quality output. If the OCR API also provides region OCR facility then
that will be very useful for us otherwise we will have to OCR the
cropped images according to regions specified.
I have already tried Asprise OCR SDK but it does not provide Automatic
straightening and produces wrong output if the image is a bit tilted.
If somebody knows any tips on how to enable auto straightening in
Asprise, then welcome.
Thanks and regards,
Nishant Saini