Where can I find a free .Net (C#) library that I can use to scan and OCR documents?

Question

I searching for a free .Net (C#) library that iIcan use to scan from a document scanner, and then OCR the document, so I can get the text from it to save in a database.

After some search I can not find anyone working in Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4. Someone knows any libs that works like this?

Solution 1

You can use WIA library to control the scanning process and tesseractdotnet for OCR. An updated .NET 4.0 version can be found here.

Updated link to .NET wrapper here

Solution 2

I think this may be usef for you Tessnet2 a .NET 2.0 Open Source OCR Library