C# – Windows 7 OCR API

Disable DEP for specific applications.

How to Disable DEP for Specific Applications

1. Click the Start button on your Windows computer and choose Computer > System Properties > Advanced System Settings.
2. From the System Properties dialog, select Settings.
3. Select the Data Execution Prevention tab.
4. Select Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select.

Click Add and use the browse feature to browse to the program executable you want to exclude—for example, excel.exe or word.exe.

Depending on your version of Windows, you may need to access the System Properties dialog box by right-clicking This PC or Computer from Windows Explorer.

1. In Windows Explorer, right-click and choose Properties > Advanced System Settings > System Properties.
2. Select Advanced > Performance > Data Execution Prevention.
3. Select Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select.
4. Click Add and use the browse feature to browse to the program executable you want to exclude.

Exclude:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MODI\11.0\MSPOCRDC.EXE  
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MODI\11.0\MSPSCAN.EXE  
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MODI\11.0\MSPVIEW.EXE

Additional information not part of the answer:

To obtain and install MODI on newest versions of Windows see:
"Microsoft Office Document Imaging – Office 2010 to Office 2016"

References:

"Exclude Programs From DEP (Data Execution Prevention)"

"Microsoft Office Document Scanning error"

MODI is part of (free) "Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007".

Find JDK Installation Directory

First you need to know the installation path for the Java Development Kit.

Open the default installation path for the JDK:

C:\Program Files\Java

There should be a subdirectory like:

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_172

Note: one has only to put the path to the jdk without /bin in the end (as suggested on a lot of places). e.g. C:\Java\jdk1.8.0_172 and NOT C:\Java\jdk1.8.0_172\bin !

Set the JAVA_HOME Variable

Once you have the JDK installation path:

1. Right-click the My Computer icon on your desktop and select Properties.
2. Click the Advanced tab, then click the Environment Variables button.
3. Under System Variables, click New.
4. Enter the variable name as JAVA_HOME.
5. Enter the variable value as the installation path for the Java Development Kit.
6. Click OK.
7. Click Apply Changes.

Note: You might need to restart Windows

The complete article is here, on my blog: Setting JAVA_HOME Variable in Windows.