Innovations AutoOCR Version 1.15.3:

• New iOCR Engine – We replaced the previous standard iOCR engine with a new product – vsOCR –. This results in a better detection rate as well as a significantly better performance for multicore / multiprocessor computers. With the new OCR Engine, we now support parallel / multithread processing with multi-page TIFF and PDF documents. The OCR processing speed is thereby multiplied, if, for example, 4 or 8 cores are available.

• iOCR – PDF rendering resolution configurable – Since only image / image documents can be processed by OCR, PDF documents are always subjected to an image (rendering) prior to OCR processing. There is now the possibility to configure the rendering resolution for SW and color, whereby the default value for SW and color is 300dpi.

• Abbyy OCR – New default settings – Based on our experience so far, we have redefined the default settings to achieve the best possible recognition rate as well as the highest possible OCR performance. A single option can affect the processing speed, especially for multi-page documents with a lot of text by a factor of 5 or 10 or more – A 10 page document can be stored in either 10 sec. or in 5 min. depending on whether the “Recognize font formatting” option is enabled or not.

         

• “Remove black border“ –  Was added as a new general image processing function for iOCR and Abbyy. Thus, a possible black border is detected and removed in all documents before OCR processing. The page size is not changed.

• Configure an invalid license response – Stopping the service (default value) or demo stamp on the document.

• Further adjustments: Autostart of the AutoOCR User Interface – is now activated by default. Error while creating the optional TXT file with iOCR has been fixed. Read-only PDF documents do not produce endless loops when processing. The temporary Abbyy Folder is now correctly deleted after the set number of days. Language-specific special characters are now encoded correctly with the Abbyy PDF/A output.

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See also:AutoOCR – Installation requirements from version 1.15.3

For the Abbyy OCR Engine version 10 demo licenses are available for 30 days or 500 pages – you can request them per mail

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Features – AutoOCR processing / monitoring folders:

1.) Processing input folders / structures: Here an input folder or an entire folder structure is processed. The generated PDF files are stored in the same folder structure with the same name as the original file. However, a special case, PDF files, as there are PDF files which do not require OCR processing and others which require one. It may also happen that only certain pages of a PDF file need to OCR processing.

In order not to process the PDF’s again that have already been processed by AutoOCR files are indicated in the data structure by a “label”.

At the start of the service AutoOCR the folder structure completely scanned to identify backlogged files. Each PDF file needs to be checked for this “label”. It should be noted that with large data sets, this process takes a long time since any PDF file must be opened and checked.

2.) retain date / time of the original file: With this option, the date and time of creation, modification, and last access can be transmitted from the source file to the generated by OCR PDF file. The PDF document is thus replaced without changing the attributes.

3.) Smart OCR processing of PDF files: PDFs can be pure image files without text, “normal” PDF files that already contain text or be mixed documents. Here individual pages are scanned image files with no text and the remaining pages are normal PDF content with text. Without special functionality always the whole PDF document will be OCR processed and so all pages regardless of the content. This takes time, resources and increases the PDF files unnecessarily. That is why you should activate the “intelligent OCR processing“. Only those documents and pages OCR be processed, where it is necessary. “Normal” PDF files are not processed, but only marked with a “label” – see 1.).

 

4.) Folder Monitor – File System Events / block processing: If it is required that during the current processing newly added files are immediately detected and processed, so the “File System Events” must be selected. If selected “block processing“, so newly added files are not automatically detected. The “block processing” is specifically designed for the initial processing of large volumes of documents. After the initial processing should then be switched to “file system events” so that newly added files are immediately processed. If the AutoOCR service stopped and restarted, the complete folder structure is searched for unprocessed files first always.

5.) Process files / folders from network shares: After installing the AutoOCR service runs by default as “Local System Account”. Must to files and folders are handled by the network shares, allowed so you have to create a “user account” to be used for the AutoOCR service which also has the appropriate rights to access the network shares used access.

Because PDFs can contain text already and therefore not all the documents / pages to be subjected to OCR processing, we have implemented the intelligent OCR processing. Previously, this feature was only for PDF output.

The Alfresco integration AutoOCR can also be configured for plain text output. Here AutoOCR generates only the text required for the Alfresco full-text search. With the AutoOCR 1.10.17 now the intelligent OCR processing is not only for the PDF, but also for plain text output. So it will be OCR processed only PDF image files. For normal PDF’s the text is extracted directly without OCR processing. This saves time and resources.

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For the Abbyy OCR Engine Version 10 Demo licenses are available for 30 days or 500 pages – these can be requested from us.

Download – Abbyy FineReader 10.x Rel 4 OCR Engine Setup (ca. 460MB) >>>

Sometimes there is the request to install AutoOCR to a different drive than “C:”. For that some adjustments were needed which we implemented in AutoOCR beginning from version 1.10.16.

The following functions were implement for it:

• selection of the installation path via the setup
• configuration on which drive / folder the Abbyy OCR engine was installed. (TXT file in the installation directory)
• configuration on which drive / folder Abbyy should store it’s *.tmp files
• possibility of configuring after how many days (default = 2) the Abbyy *.tmp files will get deleted automatically

Procedure:

1.) Installation of the Abbyy OCR engine – definition of the target directory via commandline parameters:

e.g.: msiexec.exe /i FREngine10R4_x86.msi TARGETDIR=D:\FREngine

2.) Installation of AutoOCR – selection – target directory in the setup:

3.) Creation of a “FREngine10.txt” file with a single line which contains the path to the Abbyy OCR DLL (FREngine.dll). This file then gets copied into the installation directory of AutoOCR. If this file is available the Abbyy OCR DLL gets searched like stated there – if it is not available the default (C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\MAYComputer\OCR10\FREngine.dll) is taken.

4.) Configuration of the folder for the Abbyy *.tmp files:

 5.) Configuration after how many days the Abbyy *.tmp files should be deleted automatically:

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Like for the FileConverter Pro (FCpro) there now also is the option for AutoOCR from the version 1.10.15 up, to use the more efficient SQL server express instead of the SQLCompact database.

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With the current version of the Abbyy OCR engine and with high document come-up it could happen that the *.tmp files created at the processing don’t get deleted and fill up the hard-drive. To solve this problem we implemented a function which automatically deletes the *.tmp files from the folder: c:\windows\temp\Abbyy Finereader Engine 10 which are older than x-days. The default setting is 2 days.

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For the Abbyy OCR Engine version 10 there are demo licenses available for 30 days or 500 pages – they can be requested from us if you wish to

Download- Abbyy FineReader 10.x Rel 4 OCR Engine setup (ca. 460MB) >>>