* Includes a layout analyser able to separate the columns or blocks of text normally found on printed pages. * Ocrad can be used as a stand-alone console application, or as a backend to other programs.

• Is based on a unique character analysis technology that can accurately recognize any fonts even in poor-quality images. • Uses advanced algorithms for analyzing poor-quality images, which may contain distorted, connected, and broken characters. • Uses dictionaries for the best recognition. • Supports 26 languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. • Can scan documents from TWAIN-compatible devices. • Supports bar codes: EAN-13/UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128, Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5, and QR Code. • Supports multi-core CPUs to speed up recognition even of single text fragments through efficient parallel processing. • Supports many image formats, including such popular ones as BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and GIF. • Can save recognized documents as PDF, PDF/A, RTF, XML, or TXT files, and also as memory streams. • Has an intuitive OCR API and includes sample projects with complete source code for various programming languages. • Is a cross-platform solution: supports the Windows and Linux platforms.