Supported file formats

Recognized image formats

Aspose.OCR for Python via Java can recognize any file you get from a scanner or camera:

Extension	Details
.PDF	Portable Document Format.
.JPG	JPEG, the most popular format for smartphone photos.
.PNG	Portable Network Graphics, 24-bit with transparency.
.TIFF or .TIF	Tag Image File Format, commonly used for high quality scanning. Multi-page TIFF images are fully supported.
.GIF	Graphics Interchange Format, limited to 256 colors.
.BMP	Bitmap image file.
.DJVU	DjVu, primarily designed for scanned documents, containing a combination of text, line drawings, indexed color images, and photographs.

You can recognize the above-mentioned file formats from folders. The number of recognized files is unlimited; however, subfolders are not processed.
You can recognize the above-mentioned file formats from ZIP archives. The number of recognized files is unlimited, but the library does not process nested folders and archives.
Aspose.OCR for Python via Java can read an image from the public URL that points directly to the file. However, it cannot extract images from HTML pages and does not support authentication.

Recognition results are returned in the most popular document and data exchange formats:

Format	Details
.TXT	Plain text
.HTML	Web page
.RTF	A universal format for exchanging rich text documents between different word processing programs
.DOCX	Microsoft Word document
.XLSX	Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
.PDF	Portable Document Format
.EPUB	Popular e-book file format
.JSON	A popular open-standard format, widely used in software development and data exchange
.XML	Extensible Markup Language, a universal format for most systems
.HOCR	Commonly used open standard format which includes extracted text and layout information for making searchable PDFs.