OCR how to read numbers?

Question

Hi I would like to read numbers from an image. I would be glad if you can guide me. Best Regards & Thanks in advance.

Jony Green · Answer

I agree with Manoj Bhoir the best OCR tool is google tesseract it can recognize numbers in images. and i find a free online ocr(http://www.online-code.net/ocr.html) using tesseract 3.02 you can have a try.

Manon · Answer

If you have a simple clear images with good quality and you only want limited OCR functionality Manoj’s suggestion is probably a good suggestion. However from my experience with OCR most images are missy and require image processing to be applied on the image to get better OCR results so you should be prepared for that. One option I can suggest that worked for me was using leadtools OCR engine. They have an article with an example here: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/317163/OCR-with-LEADTOOLS-The-Better-Choice

Manoj Bhoir · Answer

Hi Why not look at using an open source OCR engine such as Tesseract? http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ C# Wrapper for Tesseract http://www.pixel-technology.com/freeware/tessnet2/