Innovations DropOCR version 1.2.5:
Innovations DropOCR version 1.2.1 :
Our AutoOCR testserver is reachable vie the following URL and may be used for testing purposes:
We summarized all of our OCR Products on our newly created Website
You can get more information about the following products there:
There is now a demo plugin for the ifresco Profiler to show, how easy and fast incoming invoices can be captured in the Alfresco ECM/DMS. Incoming invoices captured this way can e.g. in Alfresco get continued processing from IT-Novum through the Alfresco-SAP Integration. We lately presented this solution in an Alfresco-Webinar (next appointment 8.10.2013) together with IT-Novum and Alfresco.
Functions demo plugin – incoming invoices capturing:
The demo plugin is to be considered as example and can be adjusted and extended functional as well as from the data model to individual requirements.
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PDF documents can be generated in different ways. PDFs are able to summarize various contents and sources in one document. Pages can be constructed from “normal” PDF content consisting of text, images, and vector graphics, and typically already have textual content that can be used for full text indexing and search. However, a PDF document can also contain scanned pages in black and white or color. Such pages or documents must undergo OCR recognition to insert the textual information for indexing and searching.
So there are certain PDF documents which either should not be subjected to any OCR processing, or only individual pages or all of them have to be processed because they were generated by a scan process.
Normally, all these types of PDF documents occur in business processes and the user can not distinguish whether or not a document needs to become OCR – viewed from the outside via the Adobe Reader or on the printer, this can not be immediately recognized and distinguished.
If you would generally process every PDF document / page in the same way, regardless of how they are structured and whether an OCR processing makes sense or not, there would be some disadvantages:
Each PDF page is “rasterized” again, regardless of the structure and content, ie converted into an image and then processed OCR. This is like printing the document, scanning it again and then subjecting it to OCR processing. This gives you a picture from a “normal” PDF page with underlying text recognized by the OCR engine.
A PDF OCR processing should therefore be “intelligent”, so that in the process and by the user does not have to decide with difficulty whether a PDF document must be subjected to OCR processing or not. Even more difficult is when a single PDF document consists of mixed normal and scanned parts.
That’s why we’ve integrated intelligent OCR processing into AutoOCR, which works in the same way with both the Abbyy and the iOCR OCR engine. This can be controlled per input folder or for the web service interface via the OCR profile and is available for both PDF> PDF and PDF> TXT processing.
Highlights – Intelligent PDF OCR processing:
The “intelligent PDF OCR processing” can be found in addition to AutoOCR in all other of our software products that support OCR processing z.b. ifresco Profiler, FileConverter, DropOCR, PDFMerge, etc.
Because of the new version of AutoOCR 1.10.3 there are new features available for the ifresco AutoOCR Transformer:
iOCR – additional OCR engine available
Starting with version AutoOCR version 1.10.3 the setup installs iOCR as default OCR engine which can be used standalone or in addition to the Abbyy OCR engine. iOCR has no page license limitations and is able to process PDF, TIFF or JPEG as input and can generate searchable PDF´s and TXT files.
Differences between iOCR and Abbyy
But iOCR is a good solution for low cost and high volume OCR recognition e.g. to extract text information from PDF´s and images to built up a full text index (e.g. Alfresco Transformer > TXT) and to create searchable PDF´s from scans with a good quality.
The best is to make tests with own documents to see which OCR engine best fits your needs. Both engines Abbyy and iOCR can be installed and used parallel – you only have to create different OCR profiles for the different settings and OCR engines. Both OCR engines can also be tested by the use of our ready to use AutoOCR test server (autoocr.may.co.at)
Intelligent PDF processing:
A PDF document can contain only images from a scanner or can be created e.g. by a printer driver or by a direct PDF export. An image PDF does not contain any text and has to be OCR processed. The other “normal” PDF´s already contains text and does not need to be OCR processed. The Alfresco Transformer is not able to recognize it and to decide if a PDF has to be OCR processed or not. OCR processing costs time and resources and so starting with AutoOCR version 1.10.3 we implemented an “intelligent PDF-OCR processing”. When this option is checked on then each PDF document which is sent to the AutoOCR server is checked, and if the file already contains text – the PDF is not OCR processed. In this case the PDF or the extracted TXT data is direct sent back without OCR processing. To enable this feature the OCR profile on the AutoOCR server has to be configured for “intelligent OCR processing of PDF files”
AutoOCR Test server – ready to use
With the installation of 2 AMP´s you can integrate the AutoOCR server with Alfresco. The integration works like a standard Alfresco Transformer or can also be used via Scripting or Java. The communication between AutoOCR and Alfresco is done via HTTTP(S) using REST. To make it more easy to start testing AutoOCR and the Alfresco integration you can use our ready installed and configured AutoOCR test server (autoocr.may.co.at) which is reachable over the internet and which has both OCR engines (Abbyy and iOCR) installed.
Step by Step – Installation and Setup documentation
With this document each step for the installation of the Abbyy Engine, of AutoOCR, the licensing, the use of our test server and the integration with Alfresco are described in detail with screen shots.
Download – Installation and Setup documentation – ifresco AutoOCR transformer for Alfresco >>>
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The AutoOCR Server is integrated via REST as a dynamic configurable Alfresco document transformer. AutoOCR creates searchable PDF´s or other document formats like TXT, DOC(X), XLS(X), PPT(X), XML, RTF and HTML from image of PDF files. The OCR functions can be used via Java, JavaScript or as a document transformer. Config is done from the Share UI which also has a new document action “Transform” and gives access to all Alfresco transformers.
AutoOCR is an OCR server / service which is based on the obviously best OCR engine from Abbyy. The AutoOCR server has a REST web-serverice interface which was used to integrate it with Alfresco. AutoOCR is able to convert image- or PDF- files to searchable PDF´s. In addition to PDF other document formats like TXT, DOC(X), XLS(X), PPT(X), XML, RTF and HTML can also be created.
The configuration is simple and uses OCR profiles to summarize all possible settings. With an AMP install module the direct integration of AutoOCR to Alfresco is realized. OCR functions are available in Alfresco as a dynamically configurable transformer. Appropriate bindings allow the use of the OCR out services also from JavaScript and Java. From Alfresco 4.0, the configuration and monitoring will be done directly on the UI of the Share Administrator console.
In addition, we have extended the Alfresco share document actions with the Alfresco Transformer integration. Transformer functions are available on any document via the share interface and allow the conversion of documents into different formats.
AutoOCR as Alfresco Transformer:
The OCR function can be bound to a folder as an action. So if e.g. a scanned document will be placed in this folder, the processing starts automatically started and the document will be passed to the AutoOCR server. The result is a searchable PDF or other document format that can be immediately sought and found on the Alfresco full-text index.
AutoOCR JavaScript binding for Alfresco:
The JavaScript API allows direct access to the AutoOCR service from Alfresco scripts. From Repository JavaScripts (Webscript controller script, scripted actions) all the features of AutoOCR API can be adressed. This API is completely independent from the integration of AutoOCR services as Alfresco Transformer.
Alfresco Share – “Transform” document action
By implementing the additional “transform” document action to the Share UI you can use all your Alfresco transformes and not only the AutoOCR transformers. The “transform” action is implemented general and not only OCR specific.
Highlights / features:
Requirements:
Step by Step – Setup & Installation documentation for ifresco AutoOCR Transformer >>>
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Price information you can find here >>>
