OCR in Java (character recognition from images)

<dependency>
    <groupId>net.sourceforge.tess4j</groupId>
    <artifactId>tess4j</artifactId>
    <version>4.3.1</version>
</dependency>

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import net.sourceforge.tess4j.ITesseract;
import net.sourceforge.tess4j.Tesseract;
import net.sourceforge.tess4j.TesseractException;

public class OcrTrial {
	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, TesseractException {
		//Load image
		File file = new File("C:\\work\\INPUT.JPG");
		BufferedImage img = ImageIO.read(file);

		ITesseract tesseract = new Tesseract();
		tesseract.setDatapath("C:\\work"); //Language file (jpn.traineddata)))
		tesseract.setLanguage("jpn"); //Specify "Japanese" as the analysis language

		//analysis
		String str = tesseract.doOCR(img);

		//result
		System.out.println(str);
	}
}

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