ForIT Solutions® ownOCR Server
Enterprise-ready, fully-featured, server based, professional OCR server and PDF/A converter software
- Automate optical character recognition (OCR) and barcode recognition of your documents using multiple monitored folders (hotfolders)
- Extract form fields from documents based on predefined document templates
- Automate document identification and classification of your documents using the built-in forms processing module
- Convert your document images and Office documents to fully searchable PDF/A format – the standard for long-term archiving (ISO:19005)
- Digitally sign output PDF documents using predefined signature profiles
- Integrate OCR functionality and document conversion features in your applications using the included fully documented RESTful Web Services API
- POST documents for OCR processing to the server via RESTful Web Services API
- Free command-line interface based on the RESTful Web Services API
- Perpetual licensing (/Workstation or /Server), no page limits
Key features
- Automated OCR processing and document conversion by multiple hotfolder monitoring (including subfolders)
- Convert Office documents to PDF or PDF/A
- Digitally sign PDF output using predefined signature profiles
- Barcode recognition
- Automatic document identification and classification based on predefined document templates
- Extract metadata from documents and export to XML or CSV
- RESTful Web Services API
- Supported input formats: PDF, TIF, TIFF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, HEIF/HEIC
- Office input formats: DOC, DOCX, ODT, RTF, TXT, XLS, XLSX, PPTX, EML, MSG
- Fully searchable PDF output
- Standard PDF/A output (PDF/A-1a, PDF/A-2a, PDF/A-3a, PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-3b)
- Additional output formats: DOCX, ODT, RTF, TXT, MHT, EPUB, XML and CSV for recognized barcodes
- Generate JPG Preview / Thumbnail based on the first page of the result PDF document
- Image processing and cleanup options (deskew, despeckle, auto-rotate, remove hole punches, etc.)
- Image compression settings
- Configurable custom action
- 100+ recognition languages
- Runs as background service (starts with operating system)
- Free command-line interface based on the exposed RESTful Web Services API
- Perpetual licensing (/Workstation or /Server), no page limits
System requirements
- Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10
- Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019
- 2 GB RAM
- 500 MB HDD free space
Hotfolders – OCR Folder Definitions
OCR Folder Definitions
- Unlimited number of monitored OCR Folders (Hotfolders)
- Files from OCR Folders are automatically recognized and processed based on predefined settings
- OCR result files are copied to the output folder (if defined)
- Source files are copied to the archive folder (if defined)
- Files which cannot be processed are copied to the error folder (if defined)
- Option to delete source files
- File extension filter (i.e. tiff, pdf, jpg)
- Recognition languages and other OCR settings
- Intelligent processing of PDF documents (pages which already contains text are not processed)
- Image processing and document cleanup options
- Image compression settings for PDF documents
- Office document conversion to PDF or PDF/A
- Digitally sign PDF output
- Multiple output formats (PDF, PDF/A, DOCX, RTF, ODT, TXT, MHT, XML, EPUB)
- Barcode recognition and write recognized barcodes to CSV file
- Automatically fill PDF document information based on variables
- Custom action which should be launched after a file is processed (command-line is configurable)
RESTful Web Services API
RESTful Web Services API
ForIT Solutions® ownOCR Server provides comprehensive, fully documented, RESTful Web Services API which allows developers to:
- Create jobs
- Configure job settings (OCR parameters, image processing and cleanup, barcode recognition, etc.)
- Upload files to OCR jobs
- Define multiple output formats
- Schedule jobs for processing
- Retrieve job status
- Download the OCR / conversion result files
- Enumerate hotfolders (OCR Folder Definitions)
- Convert Office documents to PDF or PDF/A
- Convert image documents to fully searchable PDF or PDF/A
- Post files to hotfolders
The RESTful Web Services API allows the developer to create job templates with predefined settings, later, jobs can be created based on these presets.
Getting Started with ownOCR Server
Video Summary
- installing ForIT Solutions® ownOCR Server and activating the license key
- creating an OCR Folder (hot folder) definition
- configuring input and output folder
- enabling barcode recognition
- configuring output file format
- copying files to the input folder
- processing files & checking the result
Getting Started with ownOCR Server RESTful Web Services API
Video summary
The sample demonstrates the basic functionality of the ownOCR Server RESTful Web Services API
- connect to ownOCR Server
- create an OCR job
- set OCR job options
- upload file to the OCR job
- schedule the OCR job for processing
- get the status and other information about the OCR job
- download the result PDF document
Getting Started with ownOCR Server Forms Processing
Forms Processing Features
- Automatic document identification and classification based on predefined document templates
- Create conditions using the built-in expression editor and C# code editor
- Extract and export information fields from documents and export as metadata in XML or CSV
- Fill in PDF document information (metadata) fields based on extracted information
Video Summary
- Define various form fields (text, numeric, date, integer)
- Define conditions using the built-in condition editor
- Define C# scripts to adjust the recognition result of the form fields
- Define C# scripts to evaluate the template
- Use the recognized form fields in PDF document information
- Use the recognized form fields for subfolder and filename
- Export form fields as metadata in XML or CSV
Command-line interface based on RESTful Web Services API
ForIT Solutions® ownOCR CLI is a command-line application based on the RESTful Web Services API exposed by the ownOCR Server. The application uploads the file to the ownOCR Server and waits for the conversion result.
Video summary
The sample demonstrates the basic functionality of the ForIT Solutions® ownOCR CLI command-line application.
- drag&drop the file directly to the ownocrcli.exe
- call the application from standard command prompt
- use various command-line parameters
- use various API parameters (deskew, remove hole punch, PDF conformance, signature profile)
- convert and digitally sign image and Office documents to PDF or PDF/A
Download the ownOCR CLI documentation
Download ownOCR CLI – preconfigured for the local installed ownOCR Server
Download ownOCR CLI – preconfigured for the DEMO ownOCR Server