Applies to: Lasernet Core 10
Introduction
Lasernet OCR Editor and Lasernet OCR Engine are a client / server solution used for maintaining incoming business information and the easy extraction of data for import directly into your workflow system. By setting up simple text recognition, you can work with data fields in forms such as invoices, order confirmations etc, from any of your business partners.
The only requirement is that documents must be delivered to a channel available to the Lasernet Core environment, as one of the following file types:
PDF
Text file
TIFF
OCR Editor is included in two of the Lasernet Core Input Management packages, which support the following incoming formats:
| Package | Input Format | Licensed modules in package |
|---|---|---|
| Input Management Basic | PDF, PDF/A with embedded text data | PDF to Text Excel to XML** |
| Input Management Standard | PDF, PDF/A TIFF with embedded text data or images* | PDF to Text Excel to XML** OCR Module** Tesseract OCR*** |
| Input Management Full | PDF, PDF/A, TIFF with embedded text data or images* | PDF to Text Excel to XML** OCR Module** Tesseract OCR*** XML Out |
The Barcode Reader module is required to extract barcodes into readable characters.
* For converting images to text, Tesseract OCR module is required for OCR scanning of TIFF files.
** An additional license for XML Input (Form Engine) is required.
*** Hand-written text, right-to-left and Asian languages are not supported. The module is trained and bundled with the following language packages: Danish, Dutch, German, English, Finnish, French, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.
Excel to XML conversion is also included in the Input Management packages. This process is not covered in this documentation because XML is not a supported input format for the OCR Editor application.
More information about how to configure the Tesseract OCR module, for optical character recognition,- is available in the Lasernet Developer manual.
Installers
The Lasernet Core system administrator installs and configures the back-end for Lasernet Core Input Management that includes the following list of Lasernet Core components:
Server installation
- Lasernet Server installer
- Lasernet Service
- Lasernet Configuration Server
- Lasernet Monitor
- Lasernet Server License Manager
- Lasernet Web Client installer
- Lasernet Web Server Service
Client installation
- Lasernet Developer installer
- Lasernet Developer
- Lasernet Developer License Manager
- Lasernet Monitor
- Lasernet Client installer
- Lasernet Client
- Lasernet OCR installer
- Lasernet OCR Editor
Note
For more information on how to install and configure Lasernet Core applications, please refer to the Lasernet Installation Guide.