Voice and Image recognition possible in .net app

Greetings,

DO youguys have any exposure that we can facilitate a .net application with voice recognotion. Also is there a way for document scanning and text recognition ? . Is there any built-in support or any third party utility available for .net.

Thanks a million for reading and contributing your thoughts.

Remember that .net runs on the server, the only client-side components are HTML in your browser. So voice recognition is pretty much out of the question, unless you can shout loud enough that your server can hear you :)

Text recognition will be possible if you scan a document into your PC then upload it to your website for it to run some kind of OCR code on it to extract the text. Have a search on Google for OCR components. Either a .net one or a standard COM one will both be useable from .net.