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Do you want to create a native client or integrate with third party applications: webservices are the solution.
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 #6899  by Viral Raithatha
 
Hello,

I Openkm UI one button is given 'Scanner'. It is not working.

How to use scanner button?
Is there any web service is available related to ocr?

Thank you
 #6902  by jllort
 
It's a bug in actual OpenKM released version that not allow to run scanner and uploader, in next update it'll be corrected. Sorry for the inconvenience.

About OCR tell us what you want to do and in which OS are you ?
 #6905  by Viral Raithatha
 
As per the concept of OCR, images with some characters or hand-written documents are scanned and while searching if specific search text is in the images then it recognizes and help in content searching.

Is this supported in OpenKM 5.0?

Thank you.
 #6907  by jllort
 
If you install tesseract OCR then OpenKM becomes with image OCR capabilities.

But I recommend always a better solution, make external documents scanning and OCR and the upload to OpenKM. I suggest for example some software like Omnipage pro ( really cheap and good OCR engine ). Always is good idea some human make some certification of scanning result. Some of our clients are happy with this cheap solution, sanning documents to pdf text that can be directly readed by openkm without any OCR need into.

Of course you can uploading images and OpenKM with teserract will indexing it, but I think you'll get better results with the first option I suggest. We're talking about 100-400 euros depending the ommnipage pro version. You can connect OpenKM as a webdav shared network resource and directly uploading files into. I think it's the most easiest scenario you can imagine for new documents.

If you got older scanned documents as images then you need first option. But I'm not pleased to give you bad news about it, some lower scanning resolution are not acceptable for any OCR, you need minimal image resolution to OCR engine gets some acceptable results. I've been looking some years scanned documents with really lower resolution that are not acceptable for any OCR engine, bad news.

If you're on a clean scenario or for uploading new documents, I suggest take in mind first option I suggested to you.

Tell us what you've done, we're interesting in results ( good or bad, your expertice on it, it'll be useful to other users and us ).
 #11094  by jllort
 
1- Indicate your Operating system and OpenKM version
2. Put here your OpenKM.cfg

And then will try making some testing

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