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Since OpenKM 5.1.10 you have a new configuration property which make possible to perform OCR in upside down scanned pages. This optional configuration property is called '''system.ocr.rotation''' and is defined as a list of degrees to rotate the pages. For example:
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Since OpenKM 5.1.10 you have a new configuration property which make possible to perform OCR in upside down scanned pages. This optional configuration property is called '''system.ocr.rotate''' and is defined as a list of degrees to rotate the pages. For example:
  
 
   system.ocr.rotate=90;180;270;
 
   system.ocr.rotate=90;180;270;

Revision as of 11:00, 9 August 2012

Starting with OpenKM 5.1.9 you can choose between several OCR engines:


OCR Engine Text Extractor Image Formats Program arguments
Tesseract 2.x com.openkm.extractor.Tesseract2TextExtractor TIFF /path/to/tesseract ${fileIn} ${fileOut}
Tesseract 3.x com.openkm.extractor.Tesseract3TextExtractor TIFF PNG JPG GIF /path/to/tesseract ${fileIn} ${fileOut}
Cuneiform com.openkm.extractor.CuneiformTextExtractor TIFF PNG JPG GIF /path/to/cuneiform ${fileIn} -o ${fileOut}
Abby com.openkm.extractor.AbbyTextExtractor TIFF PNG JPG GIF /path/to/abby ${fileIn} -o ${fileOut}



Nota clasica.png Starting from OpenKM 5.1.8 Cuneiform configuration was changed and the parameters are, set in system.ocr configuration. Should be set to "/usr/bin/cuneiform ${fileIn} -o ${fileOut}". See Migration from 5.1.7 to 5.1.8 for more info. In older OpenKM releases the right configuration was "/usr/bin/cuneiform".


Nota clasica.png Starting from OpenKM 5.1.9 Tesseract configuration has changed and the parameters are, set in system.ocr configuration. Should be set to "/usr/bin/tesseract ${fileIn} ${fileOut}". See Migration from 5.1.8 to 5.1.9 for more info. In older OpenKM releases the right configuration was "/usr/bin/tesseract".

So, if you want to pass a command line parameter to your tesseract executable, you should use this configuration:

system.ocr=/usr/bin/tesseract -l esp

In this OpenKM version you can also use an OpenOffice.org dictionary to enhance the OCR process. You can find these language specific dictionaries at OpenOffice.org Dictionary Repository. After download, set this configuration property with the path to the dictorionay file:

system.openoffice.dictionary=/path/to/dictionary.(oxt|zip)

Since OpenKM 5.1.10 you have a new configuration property which make possible to perform OCR in upside down scanned pages. This optional configuration property is called system.ocr.rotate and is defined as a list of degrees to rotate the pages. For example:

 system.ocr.rotate=90;180;270;

Software required

You can enable any of these text extractors adding it in the textFilterClasses param of the SearchIndex section in your repository.xml file.

Starting with OpenKM 5.1 we offer integration with Cognitive OpenOCR (Cuneiform). This OCR engine make a very good job improving Tesseract conversion ratios.