Tutorial Abbyy Recognition Server (en)

Tutorial Abbyy Recognition Server

Creating a Workflow

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Installation and Configuration of Recognition Servers

Please note: this documentation concerns to the prerequisites and specifics wich aren't described comprehensively in the Abbyy Recognition Servers manual, regarding to the magazine "Daheim" and comparable digitized media.

These settings can be accepted as provided. It saves time-consuming troubleshooting.

Minimal prerequisites are:

• Server Manager
• Verification Station

Choosing the user account the server is running

The Recognition Server-manual is related to a Windows based domain and Windows network shares. If the OCR results are to be saved onto a network sare, you need to select a user with privileges on accessing the network. The local system account does have comprehensive privileges on the local machine, bot none on the network. It's advisable to choose the network service account. In our case we had Novell domain and Novell network shares. These seem to be incompatible in this case. The error message of Recognition Server was cannot access drive xxx (the network share). Thus we saved the OCR results on the local server and copied them onto a network share by using a synchronizing programm.

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Create the folder structure

It's advisable to create it like the following:

• _Input
  • Scans are copied or moved into this folder
• _Output
  • OCR results are saved in these subfolders with the corresponding file format

Share the Daheim-folder

• right button click on the folder
  • share -> extended share
  • extended share
  • set checkbox on share this folder
  • privileges
    • choose the user(s) that may have access to

These users have to be an account with password on the server

• remove everyone
  • add
    • extended
      • search now
      • choos user
      • OK -> OK
    • activate privileges
      • change
      • read

Mount the higher folder, e.g.Daheim as network share on computers installed with Verification Station.

• open Windows-Explorer
  • extras
  • mount network share
    • choose drive letter
    • insert the path to the server, e.g. IP-address\shared folder
    • reconnect during login
    • finish

Workflow settings

Explanation of "Entzerren/dewarping":

This option arranges the picture on the basis of straight lines. If they are like in this example, a trapeze-shaped flag, the result looks like this:

That's why you should deactivate the checkbox "Entzerren/dewarping"

Quality check

Documents with simple text formatting, e.g. continuous text, you may choose "Keine Überprüfung/No check".

Documents with more sophisticated formatting the option "Alle Dokumente überprüfen/Check all documents" should be activated.

Create new language in FineReader

You can choose the character set and exclude not apparent characters like the @ -sign. It doesn't exist in oder prints, but is wrongly recognized. In FineReader choose Options -> Tools -> Options

• new
• create new language based on an existing
• OK

The dialog field Properties of language is opened

• extended
• illegal characters
• add e.g. the @ -sign.

To add more characters, just type them in a row without any whitespaces or seperators, e.g. @µ€