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OCR SDK

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An OCR SDK is a Software Development Kit for adding Optical character recognition capabilities to forms processing applications, document imaging management systems, e-discovery systems and records management solutions.

In order to avoid the difficulties of incorporating OCR technology, some OCR SDKs contain a high number of APIs, support multiple Operating systems and programming languages.

List of SDKs

Name License Operating systems Programming language APIs Languages Fonts
ExperVision OpenRTK Commercial Windows, Windows CE, Unix, Linux, Solaris, PowerPC, Mac OS X, OS/2, FreeBSD C/C++ 120 APIs 17 Languages support 2,618 training fonts support
ABBYY FineReader Engine Commercial Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD C/C++ N/A 37 Languages support N/A
OmniPage Capture SDK Commercial (Nuance EULA) Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, C/C++/C#[1] N/A N/A N/A
OpenOCR (Puma API of CuneiForm_(software)) BSD Cross-Platform C/C++ N/A 28 Languages support Any printed font
Readiris iDRS Commercial Windows C++ N/A N/A N/A
Puma.NET BSD Windows C# N/A 28 Languages support Any printed font
Transym TOCR Commercial Windows C# C/C++ VB VB.net APIs available 11 Languages support N/A
LEADTOOLS[2] Commercial Windows C#, VB.NET, C, C++, WCF Services, Windows WF APIs available 56 Languages including Arabic and Asian[3] Any printed font

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