Our popular on-premise OCR software received a major update: OCR Engine 2 is now integrated in the offline version of the OCR.Space OCR API.
We updated our OCR Engine 2 with full PDF OCR support, including auto-rotation and receipt OCR. And while we are at it, we also improved the processing speed of the engine 2.
The February 2020 update adds WebP to the list of supported image files for image ocr. The supported image formats are PNG, JPG, GIF, TIFF and WebP now. And of course PDF for document OCR. But wait… what is WebP?
We launched a new OCR Engine that brings improved numeric and alphanumeric OCR and special character OCR.
We implemented the second OCR Engine to give you access to a second OCR algorithm. It is better than the default engine (now called “engine1”) in many cases for Latin character languages (e. g. English OCR, French OCR, German OCR,…). So we recommend that you try engine1 first (since it is faster!), but if the OCR results are not perfect for your use case, please try the same document with engine2. You can use the new OCR engine with our free online OCR service on the front page, and with the OCR API.
To test the new OCR engine right away, use the free online OCR feature on our front page. You can switch between both OCR engines and compare the result.
With the lastest OCR API and Online OCR update, we added support for multi-page TIFF/TIF files. Now they are processed the same way as multi-page PDF documents. You can test the multi-page TIFF support directly in the online OCR form.
How to OCR a single page or a multipage TIFF file
The multi-page TIFF support is built directly into the OCR API. New command is required. The API recognizes multi-page TIFF files automatically. OCRing multipage tiff images is now as easy as doing PDF OCR. The resulting text is subsequently returned in the API JSON response.