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The OCR activity is used to specify general pre-recognition options and to carry out full-text recognition. Other activities and skills can use the recognition results obtained by the OCR activity for faster processing. When recognizing a document, subsequent activities or skills will use the recognition results from the OCR activity if all of the following conditions are met:
  • The set of languages in a subsequent activity or skill is the same as the set of languages in the OCR activity or includes the languages of the OCR activity.
  • The text type settings (for example, Printed or Handwritten recognition options) in a subsequent activity or skill are the same as the text type settings in the OCR activity.
  • The set of barcode types in a subsequent activity or skill is the same as the set of barcode types in the OCR activity or includes the barcode types of the OCR activity. If no barcode types are enabled in subsequent activities, the barcode type settings in the OCR activity will be ignored.
If any of the above conditions are not met, the text in the documents will be recognized.

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Set up OCR

To set up OCR, follow these steps:
  1. Add an OCR activity block to your workflow.
  2. Select the new activity by left-clicking it.
  3. In the Actions pane:
    a. Specify a name for your activity in the Activity Name field (if required).
    b. In the Languages and barcodes section, click OCR Settings and specify appropriate document recognition languages in the Languages tab.
    If the document contains handwritten text, enable the Handwritten option in the Text Appearance section.
    Note: You can find a list of all languages for which handwritten text recognition is supported here.
    c. Navigate to the Barcodes tab and select barcode types that may appear on your documents. If you don’t need to recognize any barcodes, click the button with the number of selected options in the header of the Barcode Types table and select Deselect all.
    Tip: The number of selected languages and barcode types may affect recognition speed. Try to select only those languages and barcode types that are required to process your documents.
  4. Click Save.