OCR engine

Specifies the optical character recognition (OCR) engine for extracting text from images. For information about additional OCR options, see OCR.

Enums

The following table shows the enums available for the OCR Engine parameter.

enum	description
Amazon	Default engine for the OCR preprocessor. Default engine for document types.
Microsoft	Suited to typewritten documents and large documents up to 50 MB in size.
Google	Faster than Microsoft and suited to handwriting. The Google engine doesn't merge words into lines automatically. Use the Merge Lines preprocessor in your configurations to do so.
(Deprecated) Lazarus	Lazarus no longer provides OCR services. For backward compatibility, document types and OCR preprocessors that specify Lazarus extract text with Microsoft instead. For new configurations, specify Microsoft.

Note: When Sensible extracts from portfolios, it uses Microsoft OCR, and ignores any OCR settings in the portfolio's document types.

Notes

You can use the Query Group method's Multimodal Engine parameter as an alternative to OCR engines to extract from non-text images or from poor-quality text images, such as handwriting.