Supported file formats

Aspose.OCR Cloud can read literally any image you can get from a scanner, camera, or find on the internet.

Recognized file formats

File type Extensions Details
Bitmap .BMP Uncompressed raster images.
JPEG .JPG, .JPEG, .JPE The most popular format for smartphone photos and digital cameras.
PNG .PNG Portable Network Graphic, popular format for images with transparent background.
TIFF .TIF, .TIFF Tag Image File Format, commonly used for high-quality scanning.
Only single-page TIFF images are supported.
GIF .GIF Graphics Interchange Format, limited to 256 colors.
SVG .SVG Scalable Vector Graphics, one of the most popular vector graphic format on the internet.
PDF .PDF Portable Document Format, the industry standard for storing multi-page documents.

Recognition results

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

Format Details
Plain text Unformatted text, optionally broken into lines.
PDF Portable Document Format, the industry standard for storing multi-page documents. The resulting documents are fully searchable and indexable.
CSV 1 A plain text format that contains tabular data separated by commas.
Excel 1 Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (Microsoft Office 2007 or later).
hOCR XML-based open standard of data representation for formatted text obtained from OCR. Commonly used to make searchable PDF files.
WAV 2 Waveform Audio, the main format used on Microsoft Windows systems for uncompressed audio.