data capturing tools

Question

Hi i'm Kopano from Lesotho i would like to know the most preferred tool for capturing tabular information. e.g. data in the form below pr Product Price Description Cabbage R 15.00 type of veggie Beef R 50.00 meat Total (automatically calculate total)

Maen Badwan · Answer

What do you mean by capturing data? Do you mean you have a gridview control and you want to get the text from it? In this case you can check the following article about exporting data from gridview to Text file: https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/rahul4_saxena/export-grid-view-data-to-text-file/ Or do you mean you data is in image form and you want to recognize the text from the image and return it as text in table? In this case you can try using a .NET OCR LEADTOOLS engine to load the image recognize the text and save the result into PDF (or document format) or get it as text. The code snippet shows how you can do this using LEADTOOLS .NET classes: using (IOcrEngine ocrEngine1 = OcrEngineManager.CreateEngine(OcrEngineType.LEAD false )) { ocrEngine1.Startup( null  null  null  null ); string sourceFileName = @ e:\source\image1.tif ; string targetFileName = @ e:	argetesult1.pdf ; using (IOcrDocument ocrDocument1 = ocrEngine1.DocumentManager.CreateDocument()) { IOcrPage ocrPage1 = ocrDocument1.Pages.AddPage(tifFileName null ); ocrPage1.AutoZone( null ); ocrPage1.Recognize( null ); ocrDocument1.Save(pdfFileName DocumentFormat.Pdf null ); } ocrEngine1.Shutdown(); } For more information see the following link: https://www.leadtools.com/help/leadtools/v20/dh/to/ocr.html

Suraj Kumar · Answer

You can use gridview with textbox for capturing data in tabular form.

Product	Price	Description

Cabbage	R 15.00	type of veggie
Beef	R 50.00	meat
Total	(automatically calculate total)