Asprise OCR is a commercial optical character recognition and barcode recognition SDK library that provides an API to recognize text as well as barcodes from images (in formats like JPEG, PNG, TIFF, PDF, etc.) and output in formats like plain text, xml and searchable PDF.Asprise OCR has been in active development since 1997. Version 2.1 of the software has been reviewed by PC World.Many researchers have used Asprise OCR along with Abbyy to benchmark OCR performance.