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Aspose.OCR for Java 26.8 - Release Notes

This article contains a summary of recent changes, enhancements and bug fixes in Aspose.OCR for Java 26.8 (August 2026) release.

GPU version: 23.10.1

What was changed

Key	Summary	Category
OCRJAVA‑469	Added support for recognizing currency symbols, including `€`, `£`, and `¥`, when using the `Language.ExtLatin` recognition language.	Enhancement
OCRJAVA‑474	Added font detection support for recognized text lines, including font family, style, size, and confidence values.	New feature

Public API changes and backwards compatibility

This section lists all public API changes introduced in Aspose.OCR for Java 26.8 that may affect the code of existing applications.

Added public APIs:

The following public APIs have been introduced in this release:

`com.aspose.ocr.RecognitionSettings.setDetectFonts` - a new method

Enables font detection for each recognized text line. When enabled, font information is returned in RecognitionResult.LinesResult.font.

New Methods

Method	Description
`void setDetectFonts(boolean detectFonts)`	Enables or disables font detection.

`com.aspose.ocr.FontLineResult` - a new class

Contains detected font information for a recognized text line.

New Fields

Field	Description
`int lineIndex`	Zero-based line index in the processed font batch.
`int sizePx`	Detected line height in pixels.
`Double sizePtEstimate`	Estimated font size in points. Can be `null` when the estimate is unavailable.
`String style`	Detected font style, for example `regular`, `italic`, or `bold_italic`.
`double styleConfidence`	Confidence score for the detected style.
`String font`	Detected font family name.
`double fontConfidence`	Confidence score for the detected font family.

`com.aspose.ocr.RecognitionResult.LinesResult.font` - a new field

Returns FontLineResult for the recognized text line when font detection is enabled.

If font detection is not explicitly enabled with RecognitionSettings.setDetectFonts(true), the font field of RecognitionResult.LinesResult remains null.

The font detection model is downloaded automatically on first use. The first recognition with setDetectFonts(true) can take extra time while the model is being downloaded and initialized.

Compatibility: fully backward compatible.

Updated public APIs:

No signature changes.

Recognition with Language.ExtLatin has been improved to handle currency symbols such as €, £, and ¥.

Removed public APIs:

No changes.

Examples

The code samples below illustrate the changes introduced in this release:

Detect fonts in recognized text lines

import com.aspose.ocr.AsposeOCR;
import com.aspose.ocr.FontLineResult;
import com.aspose.ocr.InputType;
import com.aspose.ocr.OcrInput;
import com.aspose.ocr.PreprocessingFilter;
import com.aspose.ocr.RecognitionResult;
import com.aspose.ocr.RecognitionSettings;
import com.aspose.ocr.models.DetectAreasMode;
import com.aspose.ocr.models.Language;

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class FontDetectionExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        String file = "source.png";

        RecognitionSettings settings = new RecognitionSettings();
        settings.setDetectFonts(true);

        PreprocessingFilter filters = new PreprocessingFilter();
        OcrInput input = new OcrInput(InputType.SingleImage, filters);
        input.add(file);

        try (AsposeOCR api = new AsposeOCR()) {
            ArrayList<RecognitionResult> results = api.Recognize(input, settings);
            RecognitionResult result = results.get(0);

            System.out.println("--- full text ---");
            System.out.println(result.recognitionText);

            if (result.recognitionRegionsResult != null) {
                for (RecognitionResult.RegionResult region : result.recognitionRegionsResult) {
                    System.out.println("--- region ---");
                    System.out.println("Rectangle: " + region.region);
                    System.out.println("Type: " + region.regionType);
                    System.out.println("Text: " + region.textInRegion);
                }
            }

            for (RecognitionResult.LinesResult line : result.recognitionLinesResult) {
                if (line.textInLine == null || line.textInLine.trim().isEmpty()) {
                    continue;
                }

                System.out.println("--- line ---");
                System.out.println("Rectangle: " + line.line);
                System.out.println("Confidence: " + line.confidence);
                System.out.println("Text: " + line.textInLine);

                FontLineResult font = line.font;
                if (font == null) {
                    System.out.println("Font was not detected. Enable it with RecognitionSettings.setDetectFonts(true).");
                    continue;
                }

                System.out.println("Font line index: " + font.lineIndex);
                System.out.println("Font family: " + font.font);
                System.out.println("Font confidence: " + font.fontConfidence);
                System.out.println("Style: " + font.style);
                System.out.println("Style confidence: " + font.styleConfidence);
                System.out.println("Size in pixels: " + font.sizePx);
                System.out.println("Estimated size in points: " + font.sizePtEstimate);
            }
        }
    }
}