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.

You can recognize the entire image or only a specific area of the image.

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.