The purpose of this article is to teach you how to perform OCR using C++ by interfacing with an OCR SDK. During our day to day development we needed to perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on scanned images, screenshots and other forms or files. We looked for an SDK which will allow that and examined ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK. They didn't have any C / C++ code samples so I had to develop ones... Creating an ABBYY Cloud OCR App Here are the steps that need to be taken once a