Tamil OCR in C# and .NET

Other versions of this document:

• தமிழில்
• 125 More OCR Languages

IronOCR is a C# software component allowing .NET coders to read text from images and PDF documents in 126 language, including Tamil.

It is an advanced fork of Tesseract, built exclusively for the .NET developers and regularly outperforms other Tesseract engines for both speed and accuracy.

Contents of IronOcr.Languages.Tamil

This package contains 102 OCR languages for .NET:

• Tamil
• TamilBest
• TamilFast
• TamilAlphabet
• TamilAlphabetBest
• TamilAlphabetFast

Download

Tamil Language Pack [தமிழ்]

Installation

The first thing we have to do is install our Tamil OCR package to your .NET project.

PM> Install-Package IronOCR.Languages.Tamil

Code Example

This C# code example reads Tamil text from an image or PDFv document.

C#:

//PM> Install-Package IronOcr.Languages.Tamil
using IronOcr;
var Ocr = new IronTesseract();
Ocr.Language = OcrLanguage.Tamil;
using (var Input = new OcrInput(@"images\Tamil.png"))
{
    var Result = Ocr.Read(Input);
    Var AllText =  Result.Text
}

VB:

'PM> Install-Package IronOcr.Languages.Tamil
Imports IronOcr
Private Ocr = New IronTesseract()
Ocr.Language = OcrLanguage.Tamil
Using Input = New OcrInput("images\Tamil.png")
    Dim Result = Ocr.Read(Input)
    Dim AllText As Var = Result.Text
End Using