How to programmatically read over a scanned document or image

Question

I\'ve searched around on the net, as I\'m a bit of a n00b when it comes to OCR, and I\'m actually not sure where a good starting point would be.

I\'d like to build a

Answer 1

1) You could also check the free, but very capable Tesseract OCR engine. It is written in C++, but you could probably use C# to easily interface to it.

2) If you would like to roll your own with image processing, you could look at using the EmguCV library, which is the .NET wrapper for OpenCV.

There was a recent post on the opencv-tag, which was trying to solve a very similar problem to yours that involved detecting marks on a lotto card.