Windows 7 OCR API

Question

I have been reviewing replacements for the Office 2007 MODI OCR (OneNote\'s 2010 solution has lesser quality/results than 2007 :-( ). I notice that Windows 7 contains an OCR lib

Answer 1

1. Tessnet OCR is a good solution, but pretty old (last release from 2009). There are couple of very good free OCR solutions available for .NET:
2. Asprise C# OCR SDK. Very good and fast one.
3. Microsoft Research Project Hawaii Web-based (cloud) OCR solution with full docs and samples (discontinued 2013)
4. Bing OCR Web based (cloud) OCR replacement for above. (discontinued March 2014)