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ABBYY Cloud OCR

Ivan Kuznetsov
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Description

Recognizes an image text using the ABBYY Cloud OCR technology. Either images or pdf files can be processed.

 

How to work with credentials

The credentials in ABBYY OCR differ from other OCR services. You can learn more about it in this article.

Note: if after performing the steps in the article above you cannot interact with this activity, please restart Studio Pro and try again.

 

Parameters

Path

  1. Set a value: enables you to directly write the desired path. Clicking the 'Pick' button allows you to manually choose the path.

  2. Save the previous step result: chooses the previous activity result as a path.

  3. Calculate a value: enables you to use available properties and methods to form a path.

Supported file extensions:

  • .pdf

  • .jpg

  • .png

  • .bmp

  • .tiff

  • .pcx

  • .dcx

  • .djvu

  • .gif

  • .wdp

 

Maximum file size: 100 MB

 

Language of the document

Enables you to select the document's written language.

 

Export format

This parameter allows you to select up to three formats in which the data will be exported. Supported data formats:

  1. .txt
  2. .txt unstructured
  3. .rtf
  4. .docx
  5. .xlsx
  6. searchable pdf
  7. .pdf with texts and pictures
  8. .pdf
  9. .XML
  10. .xml for corrected pictures
  11. alto

 

Comment

Contains an annotation of the activity. The input text will be displayed above the activity name.

 

Result

The result is saved in a text file in the following destination: 'C:\Users\<Username>\ElectroNeek'.

 

Usage Examples

This activity should be used when text is placed as an image which makes it impossible to extract the text using standard methods. In this case, you will use this function to scan the image and save all the recognized characters.

Make sure to keep in mind that you may not get the maximum accuracy sometimes. It depends on the image quality, text size, and some other characteristics.

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