Summary

GdPicture MICR SDK* is a 100% royalty free extension of GdPicture.NET, which allows to decode CMC7 and E-13B symbols from documents with outstanding speed and accuracy. It is part of the GdPicture.NET OCR Plugin.

This extension is also able to detect and decode the MICR line from any structured document such as checks by analyzing the full page layout.

MICR stands for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition and is a standard encoding technology in Banking industry used mainly for checks.

Technical Features

• Supports CMC-7 and E-13B fonts.
• Accurate on poor quality and poorly contrasted images.
• Recognition accuracy reaches 99.9% on 300 dpi images.
• Multi-threaded processing speed reaches 30 checks per second on Intel Core i7 based computer.
• Works on any bit-depth bitmap (color, grayscale and monochrome).
• Automatically repairs altered symbols.
• Symbols size tolerant.
• Able to detect check codelines by full page layout analysis.
• Automatic detection of MICR fonts (no need to set Region of Interest on the document).
• Returns recognized characters with confidence level and an alternate set of recognized characters at next-lower level of confidence.
• Allows choosing white-lists of symbols.
• Allows optional setting of the expected number of symbols.
• Low memory usage and fast decoding.
• AnyCPU: available in 32 bit & 64 bit versions.
• Can work in multi-thread applications.

Availability

* GdPicture MICR SDK Extension is part of the GdPicture.NET OCR Plugin and is available for:

• GdPicture.NET Ultimate Edition (included in the license)
• GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK Edition (requires an additional license)
• GdPicture.NET Document Viewer Edition (requires an additional license)