Nicomsoft OCR - is an OCR toolkit that allows developers to embed high-quality optical character recognition functionality in their products. While the recognition quality delivered by Nicomsoft OCR is on a par with the premium OCR packages on the market we also offer a royalty-free licensing policy. This gives our customers the lowest total cost of ownership of a quality OCR system enabling them to create software products that are more competitive. Key features: - Support of many image formats: BMP JPEG PNG TIFF GIF and many others - Support of multipage image formats (TIFF GIF). - Ability to load image from a file memory or pixel data. - Robust adaptive image binarization supports images with poor brightness or low contrast - Ability to perform zonal OCR: select one or multiple areas for OCR - Ability to specify different OCR options for different areas - ICR module for handwritten digits - Support of English German French Spanish Russian Italian and Portuguese languages - Ability to specify several languages for OCR - Ability to specify different languages for different areas on an image - Ability to use several CPU cores for even faster OCR - Unique character analysis technology delivering reliable recognition of any fonts - Advanced algorithms for poor-quality text distorted connected and broken characters - Dictionaries are used for the best recognition - Ability to exclude some characters from character set when necessary - Ability to get additional information about text lines words and characters: position size quality etc - Full Unicode support - Simple API interface and sample projects for various programming languages: C# C++ VB.NET Delphi C++ Builder VB - A wide set of supported frameworks and technologies that can use Nicomsoft OCR: .NET WPF WCF ASP.NET Silverlight - Both native x86 and x64 binaries are available