Iron OCR supports .NET Framework languages such as VB.NET, C#, and F#. Its functions include converting images, photos, scans, and PDFs to text with results including text, barcodes, and document OCR. Ideal for VB .NET development.

Iron OCR has a robust API that enables developers to read text from images with ease. With the Auto OCR class, this can be done with a single line of code or with advanced setup using the Advanced OCR class in the Iron OCR namespace.
This software fully supports the PDF standard, effortlessly reading PDF documents to text, even if they are encrypted. It uses multithreading when reading PDF pages to enhance performance, assigning one thread per page.
To install Iron OCR, users need to make a single reference to the AutoOCR class. Also, an entire document can be read back to text using a single line of code using AutoOCR.Read.
Iron OCR stands out in two crucial functions – its ease of installation, which does not require C++ binary-specific setup like Tesseract, and its exceptional ability to read real-world documents such as scans and photographs that often have digital noise, skewness, and other imperfections. It can correct them during the OCR processes, delivering OCR accuracy greater than 95%.
Users have access to language packs in Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish, making it perfect for a diverse range of users across the globe.
Iron OCR is versatile and can be used to create windows desktop applications, server applications such as ASP.NET websites, web services hosted on the Azure framework, and even simple command line applications and console applications in VB.NET.
Version 2021.12.0: Latest version of the VB .NET OCR library does not yet support .net core but a release will be coming in Q3 2020.
Version 4.4.0: Latest version of the VB .NET OCR library does not yet support .net core but a release will be coming in Q3 2020.