Getting Started

  • Install ForIT Solutions® ownOCR Server and activate the license key
  • Create an OCR Folder (hot folder) definition
  • Configure the input and the output folder
  • Enable barcode recognition
  • Configure the output file format
  • Copy files to the input folder
  • Process files & check the result

Hotfolders – 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)

CLI interface

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.

  • 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

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

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.

Download API documentation (.PDF)

Download C# API Sample Solution

Forms Processing

  • 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

Forms Processing Features

  • Fill in PDF document information (metadata) fields based on extracted information
  • 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