Good news: You don't need to pay, because Microsoft OCR is available for free, nicely packaged as "DLL". The caveat: It currently supports only UWP (Universal W

Good news: You don't need to pay, because Microsoft OCR is available for free, nicely packaged as "DLL". The caveat: It currently supports only UWP (Universal Windows Platform) apps: https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/02/08/optical-character-recognition-ocr-for-windows-10/ https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/02/08/optical-ch... For a quick test, try https://ocr.space https://ocr.space - a free ocr api that uses Microsoft OCR on the backend.