Jerry Nixon @Work: DevRadio: Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime

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Friday, September 19, 2014

DevRadio: Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime

Jerry Nixon welcomes Ivan Stojiljkovic and Jelena Mojasevic from the Microsoft offices in Serbia as they discuss the new features and capabilities found in the Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime. Tune in for this highly informative session where they show us how you can use the OCR Library to extract text from images In your apps. More…

Ivan’s demo

First we capture the picture. Nothing special here.

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Then we add a reference to WindowsPreview.Media.Ocr:

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And, finally, we use the library:

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Does it seem a little fuzzy? Don’t sweat - find the entire sample in the video!

Best of luck!