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Characters (OCR/ICR)

The recognition engines used for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) throughout the workflow are configured here.

Make your selection from the list of supported languages and countries under Recognition languages and countries.

  • For ICR to function, also select a country name and not just a language. Without a country selected, ICR fails. For example, select both USA and ENGLISH.

  • Different languages and regions are available for the OmniPage and RecoStar engines respectively.

Make your selections under Engine settings:

  • Engine: Select which engine to use:

    • OmniPage

    • RecoStar (deprecated, not recommended)

    When changing the engine to OmniPage, the list of available languages and regions changes, but any previously selected options carry over.

  • Enable image auto-rotation: Rotates the image to the orientation of the rest of the document.

  • Remove shading from images before running recognition: Certain OCR operations can be slow if the image being processed contains shaded regions. This function removes the shading and potentially speeds up OCR processing.

The value entered under Word merging options represents how much space (in inches) can be between separate characters to still treat them as part of the same word. Example: If the user scanned the word "W   O   R   D", the OCR engine would detect that as 4 words. Increase the tolerance to detect it as "WORD".

This setting only affects OCR Assisted Indexing and Zone OCR Anchoring.