Aspose.OCR for Java 20.5 - Release Notes

Aspose.OCR for Java is a library for optical character recognition and document scanning. It allows you to scan documents and recognize characters include diacritic.

Input Formats

For loading images used Image.IO build-in package in the Java core 1.8.

The Image I/O has built-in support for GIF, PNG, JPEG, BMP, and WBMP. The Image I/O is also extensible so that developers or administrators can “plug-in” support for additional formats. For example, plug-ins for TIFF and JPEG 2000 are separately available.

Supported Characters
space ! " # $ % & ' ( )
* + , - . / 0 1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < =
> ? @ [ \ ] _ ` | { | | |
} ~ A B C D E F G H
I J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y Z a b
c d e f g h i j k l
m n o p q r s t u v
w x y z  À Á Ã Ä Æ
Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ñ
Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö Ù Ú Û Ü ẞ
ß à á â ã ä æ ç è é
ê ë ì í î ï ñ ò ó ô
õ ö ù ú û ü ÿ Œ œ Ÿ

Public API and Backwards Incompatible Changes

New API

Method Description
AsposeOCR() Create an API instance.
AsposeOCR(String alphabet) alphabet - String with allowed symbols in the alphabet. Create an API instance.
double CalcSkewImage(BufferedImage image) image - BufferedImage instance. Return Skew angle in degrees.
double CalcSkewImage(String fullPath) fullPath - path to the image. Return Skew angle in degrees.
ArrayList<Rectangle> getTextAreas() Get a List of rectangles with text areas on the page (in pixels).
void License.setLicense(String filename) filename - path to the license XML file.
boolean License.isValid() Check license is valid.
String RecognizeLine(String fullPath) String RecognizeLine(String fullPath)
String RecognizeLine(BufferedImage image_) image - BufferedImage instance.
String RecognizePage(String fullPath) fullPath - path to the image. Recognizing image with automatic detection of text areas and detecting, correct the skew of the text.
String RecognizePage(String fullPath, boolean autoSkew) fullPath - path to image. autoSkew - Auto-skew text. Recognizing image with automatic detection of text areas.
String RecognizePage(BufferedImage image) image - BufferedImage instance. Recognizing image with automatic detection of text areas and detecting, correct the skew of the text.
String RecognizePage(BufferedImage image, boolean autoSkew) image - BufferedImage instance. autoSkew - Auto-skew text. Recognizing image with automatic detection of text areas.
String RecognizePage(String fullPath, ArrayList<Rectangle> boxes_) fullPath - path to image. boxes_ - list of rectangles.
String RecognizePage(BufferedImage image_, ArrayList<Rectangle> boxes_) image_ - BufferedImage instance. boxes_ - list of rectangles.
String RecognizePage(String fullPath, Rectangle box) fullPath - path to image. box - rectangle for recognize.
String RecognizePage(BufferedImage image_, Rectangle box) image_ - BufferedImage instance. box - rectangle for recognize.

Removed APIs

All methods of the previous release are not supported.

Usage Example

import static java.lang.System.out;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import com.aspose.ocr.AsposeOCR;
import com.aspose.ocr.License;

public class Examples {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
         
        /** 
         * Page recognition with automatic text skew alignment 
         * */       
 
        //Current directory
        String samplesDir = System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/resources";
 
        //Set license
        String file = samplesDir + "/licenses/Aspose.Total.lic";
        License.setLicense(file); 
 
        //Check license
        boolean resLicense = License.isValid();
        out.println("License is :" + resLicense);
         
        // Get image from samples directory
        file = samplesDir + "/images/p3.png";
 
        //Create api instance
        AsposeOCR api = new AsposeOCR();
 
        // Get test skew
        try {
            double angle = api.CalcSkewImage(file);
            System.out.println("Skew text is:" + angle + " degrees.");
        } catch (IOException e1) {
            e1.printStackTrace();
        }
  
        // Recognize page by full path to file
        try {
            String result = api.RecognizePage(file);
            out.println("Result: " + result);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
         
        // Recognize page from BufferedImage
        try {
            BufferedImage loaded = ImageIO.read(new File(file));
            String result = api.RecognizePage(loaded);
            out.println("Result BufferedImage: " + result);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
 
        //Get rectangles with text areas in the image.
        ArrayList<Rectangle> rectResult = api.getTextAreas();
        for(Rectangle r : rectResult) {
            out.println("Text area:" + r);
        }
 
        // Get image from samples directory
        file = samplesDir + "/images/p.png";
         
        //Prepare rectangles with texts.
        ArrayList<Rectangle> rectArray = new ArrayList<Rectangle>();
         
        rectArray.add(new Rectangle(138, 352, 2033, 537));
        rectArray.add(new Rectangle(147, 890, 2033, 1157));        
        rectArray.add(new Rectangle(923, 2045, 465, 102));        
        rectArray.add(new Rectangle(104, 2147, 2076, 819));        
 
        try {
            String result = api.RecognizePage(file, rectArray);
            out.println("Result with rect: " + result);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
 
         
        /** 
         * Line recognition (numbers) 
         * */       
         
        file = samplesDir + "/images/0001460985.Jpeg";
         
        try {
            String result = api.RecognizeLine(file);
            out.println("File: " + file);
            out.println("Result line: " + result);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
 
        file = samplesDir + "/images/0002240177.Jpeg";
         
        try {
            String result = api.RecognizeLine(file);
            out.println("File: " + file);
            out.println("Result line: " + result);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
         
        //Create api instance with alphabet
        api = new AsposeOCR("0123456789");
         
        file = samplesDir + "/images/0001460985.Jpeg";
         
        try {
            String result = api.RecognizeLine(file);
            out.println("File: " + file);
            out.println("Result line with alphabet: " + result);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
 
        file = samplesDir + "/images/0002240177.Jpeg";
         
        try {
            String result = api.RecognizeLine(file);
            out.println("File: " + file);
            out.println("Result line with alphabet: " + result);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
         
        out.println("Finish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!");
    }
}
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