VintaSoft Document Cleanup .NET Plug-in is the add-on for VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK, which allows to cleanup the scanned image, segment the document image and improve the text appearance.

Plug-in features

• General features

  • The plug-in can be used for developing .NET 8, .NET 7 and .NET 6 applications (console, WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET Core, service, etc) for Windows
  • The plug-in can be used for developing .NET 8, .NET 7 and .NET 6 applications (console, ASP.NET Core, service, etc) for Linux and macOS
  • The plug-in can be used for developing .NET Framework 4.8, 4.7, 4.6, 4.5, 4.0 and 3.5 applications (console, WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET WebForms, service, etc) for Windows
  • The plug-in core is written in C#
  • AnyCPU, x86 and x64 mode support
  • Cleanup artifacts and imperfections in scanned images
  • Improve scanned documents of poor quality
  • Correct the perspective distortion of document image
  • Remove lines, tables, shapes, hole punches and halftones from document images
  • Cleanup document image to get better optical character recognition (OCR) results
  • Cleanup document image to get better barcode recognition results
  • Cleanup images to get better image file compression and size results
  • Improve the text appearance and readability in document images
  • Remove JPEG compression artifacts from JPEG images
  • Segment document image to get better optical character recognition (OCR) results
  • Segment document image to get better image file compression and size results
  • JavaScript classes for processing document images in ASP.NET
  
  

• Supported image document cleanup and processing commands

  • DocumentPerspectiveCorrectionCommand - corrects the perspective distortion of document image
  • DespeckleCommand - detects and removes speckles from document image
  • BorderClearCommand - clears noise on the border of document image
  • HolePunchRemovalCommand - detects and removes hole punches from document image
  • LineRecognitionCommand - performs the search of lines on the image
  • LineFillingCommand - fills the lines in the image
  • LineRemovalCommand - detects and removes extraneous lines from document image (lines of forms, tables, underlining and strikethrough of text, noise)
  • ShapeRemovalCommand - detects and removes shapes on black/white document image.
  • HalftoneRecognitionCommand - detects halftone regions on the document image
  • HalftoneRemovalCommand - detects and removes halftones from document image
  • AdvancedReplaceColorCommand - substitutes the image colors which are defined by the color spheres with the ability of linear color interpolation
  • ColorNoiseClearCommand - cleans up noise and artifacts of specified colors in 24-bit image
  • SmoothingCommand - applies a smoothing effect to 1-bpp image
  • DeskewCommand - detects rotation angle of image with text and rotates to straighten it
  • DeskewDocumentImageCommand - detects rotation angle of document image and rotates to straighten it
  • GetDocumentImageRotationAngleCommand - determines the rotation angle of document image
  • AutoTextOrientationCommand - detects text orientation on document image (90, 180 or 270 degrees) and rotates it (for languages based on the Latin alphabet only)
  • GetTextOrientationCommand - determines the orientation angle of text in document image (for languages based on the Latin alphabet only)
  • AutoInvertCommand - detects inverted document image and inverts it
  • AutoTextInvertCommand - detects inverted text on document image and inverts the text
  • RestoreTextFromHalftoneCommand - detects text in halftone regions and restores the text
  • DocumentSegmentationCommand - detects the text and lines on document image
  • ImageSegmentationCommand - detects the pictures on document image

Development and Deployment requirements

• Development requirements:

  • Development environments: Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Studio Code, JetBrains Rider, .NET CLI
  • Programming languages: C#, VB.NET, any .NET compatible language
  • Development platforms: .NET, WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET
  
  

• Deployment requirements:

  • Windows (Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7; Windows Server 2022/2019/2016/2012/2008; 32-bit and 64-bit) with .NET 8, .NET 7 or .NET 6
  • Windows (Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP; Windows Server 2022/2019/2016/2012/2008/2003; 32-bit and 64-bit) with .NET Framework 4.8, 4.7, 4.6, 4.5, 4.0, 3.5
  • Linux (Ubuntu 23/22/20/18; Debian 12/11/10; Fedora 39/38/37/36/35; OpenSUSE 15; CentOS 9/8/7; Redhate Enterprise Linux 9/8/7; Alpine 3) with .NET 8, .NET 7 or .NET 6
  • macOS (macOS 14/13/12/11/10) with .NET 8, .NET 7 or .NET 6