Supported file formats

Recognized image formats

Aspose.OCR for Python via C++ is capable of recognizing text from any file obtained through a scanner or camera:

File format Details
JPEG (.JPG or .JPEG) The most popular format for smartphone photos.
PNG (.PNG) 24-bit Portable Network Graphics with transparency.
TIFF (.TIF or .TIFF) Tag Image File Format, commonly used for high quality scanning. Multi-page TIFF images are fully supported.
Bitmap (.BMP) Bitmap image file.
Archive (.ZIP) All JPEG, PNG, TIFF and BMP images inside the archive.(1)
Web link A public URL to JPEG, PNG, TIFF and BMP image.(2)

Recognition results

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

Format Details
TEXT Plain text.
JSON A popular open-standard format, widely used in software development and data exchange.
XML Extensible Markup Language, a universal format for most systems.