* 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.

• Template matching - Extract only specific characters from a region and ignore the rest • Character set selection - Improve accuracy by limiting results to certain letters or numbers • Auto rotate - Accurately finds correct image orientation • Noise removal - Improved for shaded regions and speckles • Error Handling - Greatly improved • Example projects - Includes C++, Visual Basic, ASP, and VB.NET • Returns coordinates of recognized words and images - Map text to original image, correcting hidden text PDF