Tesseract ocr for VS2010 and C#

[Richard Arnold]

Hello. I'm looking for Tesseract code that will work using Visual Studio 2010 Premium and that can be called in C#.NET.

Because there is an older compilation that was done in vs2008 and the newest one appears to be for vs2012, I downloaded a dotnet wrapper (130 + MB) from GitHub that Charles W. wrote. https://github.com/charlesw/tesseract-ocr-dotnet

Again, this isn't his newest code, but it gave indication of being compatible for vs2010.

I am new to working with Tesseract and have the following questions:

• Is this DotNet Wrapper from CharlesW also the API for Tesseract?
• How do I work with it; in other words how can I incorporate this into a C# project?
• Does this need compiled and if so, do I need to build it in C++? I ask this because I want to call the functionality thru C#.
• I also saw a separate reference online to a TesseractEngineWrapper that is supposed to be aimed at .Net 4.0, which is what I use. There were detailed steps listed at http://markmail.org/message/km6nfyobnplgljd4

• Is more than the engine required to use that example?
  

Please advise how best to use my existing downloaded code, or if there is a better example to use with my vs2010 and C#.

Thank you