ForIT Solutions® ownOCR Server
Enterprise-ready, fully-featured, server based, professional OCR server and PDF/A converter software with powerful REST Web Services API
- Unlimited pages & documents
- Licensing: subscription or lifetime
- RESTful Web Services API & CLI interface
- Windows 10, 11, Server 2012, 2016, 2019, 2022, 2025
(no separate server license is required)
- 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
How it works?
ForIT Solutions® ownOCR Server is implemented as a background Windows Service, and automatically does the following tasks:
- Monitor hot folders (24/7) for input files
- When new files are detected in the input folder, it does the following:
- image processing & cleanup (if needed and configured)
- OCR processing & barcode recognition
- PDF or PDF/A conversion
- Copy the fully searchable PDF documents to the output folder (if defined)
- Move the original files to the output folder (if defined)
- Executes the defined post action (if configured)
If the output folder was not defined, the result files are kept in the input folder (with the same name like the source file, but with .PDF extension), and optionally, it is possible to configure the processing flow to delete the input source files (does not apply to PDF documents).
If the archive folder was not defined, the source input files are kept in the input folder (if source file deletion was not configured).
Key features
- Automated OCR processing and document conversion by multiple hotfolder monitoring (including subfolders)
- Convert Office documents to PDF or PDF/A
- Convert scanned documents to fully searchable PDF or PDF/A documents
- 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
Pricing
1 Year Subscription
€
99
/ year / PC or server
- Unlimited documents
- Unlimited pages
- Tehnical support via e-mail and updates are included with the subscription. After expiration, the subscription should be renewed, otherwise the software will stop working
Lifetime
€
299
/ lifetime / PC or server
- Unlimited documents
- Unlimited pages
- Tehnical support via e-mail and updates are included in the first year. Starting with the second year, in order to receive updates and technical support, a maintenance subscription is required
1 Year Maintenance
€
49
/ year / PC or server
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- Tehnical support via e-mail and updates are included with the 1 Year Maintenance subscription. The maintenance subscription is available only for Lifetime licenses.