Supported file formats

Recognized image formats

Aspose.OCR for .NET can recognize any file you get from a scanner or camera:

Extension Details
.PDF Portable Document Format
.JPG JPEG, the most popular format for smartphone photos
.PNG Portable Network Graphics, 24-bit with transparency
.TIFF or .TIF Tag Image File Format, commonly used for high quality scanning
.GIF Graphics Interchange Format, limited to 256 colors
.BMP Bitmap image file
.DJVU DjVu, primarily designed for scanned documents, containing a combination of text, line drawings, indexed color images, and photographs

Recognition results

Recognition results are returned in the most popular document and data exchange formats:

Format Details
.TXT Plain text
.HTML Web page
.RTF A universal format for exchanging rich text documents between different word processing programs
.DOCX Microsoft Word document
.XLSX Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
.PDF Portable Document Format
.EPUB Popular e-book file format
JSON A popular open-standard format, widely used in software development and data exchange
XML Extensible Markup Language, a universal format for most systems