topic Server Side OCR with ABBYY Recognition Server in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/server-side-ocr-with-abbyy-recognition-server/m-p/231908#M185038 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Just thought I'd post an FYI, for anyone looking to integrate server side OCR into Alfresco, we've found a pretty good solution:&nbsp; ABBYY Recognition server.&nbsp; It doesn't integrate out of the box, but since it provides a SOAP interface, it's pretty easy to whip up a script and transformer.&nbsp; Since I know PHP and PHP has some easy SOAP functionality, I wrote my script in PHP (excuse the ugly code):</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;?php<BR /><BR />class files_object{<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;public $FileName;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;public $FileContents;<BR />}<BR /><BR />class ProcessFile{<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;public $location = "ogre.co.dac.int";<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;public $workflowName;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;public $file;<BR />};<BR /><BR /><BR /><BR />if ($argv[1]=="–help"||$argv[1]=="-h") {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;print "Usage: php ocr.php &lt;source file&gt; &lt;destination file&gt; &lt;ocr workflow name&gt;\n";<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;return 0;<BR />} else {<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$input_file_name = $argv[1];<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$output_file_name = $argv[2];<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$workflow = $argv[3];<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;if (is_null($input_file_name) || is_null($output_file_name) || is_null($workflow) ) {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;print "Usage: php ocr.php &lt;source file&gt; &lt;destination file&gt; &lt;ocr workflow name&gt;\n";<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;return 2;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;if(!file_exists($input_file_name) || !is_readable($input_file_name)) {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;print "Input file cannot be read or does not exist. Exiting.\n";<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;return 2;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;} else {<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$input_filehandle = fopen($input_file_name, "r");<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$input_file_content = fread($input_filehandle, filesize($input_file_name));<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;fclose($input_filehandle);<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$file = new files_object;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$file-&gt;FileName = basename($input_file_name);<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$file-&gt;FileContents = $input_file_content;<BR /><BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$soap_process = new ProcessFile;<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$soap_process-&gt;workflowName = $workflow;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$soap_process-&gt;file = $file;<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$client = new SoapClient("<A href="http://ogre.co.dac.int/RecognitionWS/RSSoapService.asmx?wsdl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://ogre.co.dac.int/RecognitionWS/RSSoapService.asmx?wsdl</A>");<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$results = $client-&gt;ProcessFile($soap_process);<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$content = $results-&gt;ProcessFileResult-&gt;InputFiles-&gt;InputFile-&gt;OutputDocuments-&gt;OutputDocument-&gt;Files-&gt;FileContainer-&gt;FileContents;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$name = $results-&gt;ProcessFileResult-&gt;InputFiles-&gt;InputFile-&gt;OutputDocuments-&gt;OutputDocument-&gt;Files-&gt;FileContainer-&gt;FileName;<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$output_filehandle = fopen($output_file_name, "w");<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;fwrite($output_filehandle, $content);<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;fclose($output_filehandle);<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<BR />}<BR />?&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>This script takes the command line:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>php ocr.php {source file} {target file} {workflow name}<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>(note: recognition server can define multiple workflows.&nbsp; Currently I have an OCRtoPDF which returns a pdf document and OCRtoTXT which returns plain text.)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Then we simple created a new context file: (this example is for&nbsp; tiff-&gt;pdf and tiff-&gt;txt</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&lt;?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?&gt;<BR />&lt;!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC '-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN' '<A href="http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd</A>'&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;beans&gt;<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bean id="transformer.TIFF.OCR" class="org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.RuntimeExecutableContentTransformer" parent="baseContentTransformer"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="transformCommand"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bean class="org.alfresco.util.exec.RuntimeExec"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="commandMap"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;map&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;entry key="Linux"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;php /srv/alfresco/bin/ocr.php ${source} ${target} OCRtoPDF&lt;/value&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/entry&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/map&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bean&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="explicitTransformations"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;list&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bean class="org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.ExplictTransformationDetails" &gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="sourceMimetype"&gt;&lt;value&gt;image/tiff&lt;/value&gt;&lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="targetMimetype"&gt;&lt;value&gt;application/pdf&lt;/value&gt;&lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bean&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/list&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bean&gt;<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bean id="transformer.TIFF.TXT" class="org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.RuntimeExecutableContentTransformer" parent="baseContentTransformer"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="transformCommand"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bean class="org.alfresco.util.exec.RuntimeExec"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="commandMap"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;map&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;entry key="Linux"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;value&gt;php /srv/alfresco/bin/ocr.php ${source} ${target} OCRtoTXT&lt;/value&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/entry&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/map&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bean&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="explicitTransformations"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;list&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bean class="org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.ExplictTransformationDetails" &gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="sourceMimetype"&gt;&lt;value&gt;image/tiff&lt;/value&gt;&lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;property name="targetMimetype"&gt;&lt;value&gt;text/plain&lt;/value&gt;&lt;/property&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bean&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/list&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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The other benefit is it is surprisingly inexpensive.&nbsp; Since Kofax client side OCR is the only Alfresco "supported" OCR, hopefully ABBYY RS will be a good alternative if you need or prefer server side OCR</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Geof</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:02:13 GMT abruzzi 2009-06-09T16:02:13Z Server Side OCR with ABBYY Recognition Server https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/server-side-ocr-with-abbyy-recognition-server/m-p/231908#M185038 Just thought I'd post an FYI, for anyone looking to integrate server side OCR into Alfresco, we've found a pretty good solution:&nbsp; ABBYY Recognition server.&nbsp; It doesn't integrate out of the box, but since it provides a SOAP interface, it's pretty easy to whip up a script and transformer.&nbsp; Since I kno Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:02:13 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/server-side-ocr-with-abbyy-recognition-server/m-p/231908#M185038 abruzzi 2009-06-09T16:02:13Z Re: Server Side OCR with ABBYY Recognition Server https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/server-side-ocr-with-abbyy-recognition-server/m-p/231909#M185039 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have readed some posts about Abbyy OCR and I have questions…</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Have you tried this on Linux(Redhat) 64 bits ? Working ?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I would to create a rule able to transform a PDF (or TIFF) -&gt; PDF Readable (and not create a second document). Is it possisble ? How can I custom the Web UI to do that ?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank you</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:27:10 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/server-side-ocr-with-abbyy-recognition-server/m-p/231909#M185039 dranakan 2010-10-05T07:27:10Z Re: Server Side OCR with ABBYY Recognition Server https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/server-side-ocr-with-abbyy-recognition-server/m-p/231910#M185040 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We have implemented an OCR server integrated with Alfresco, which can be used as transformer or via Javascript and Java. It runs on&nbsp; a separate OCR server and supports Abbyy and Google OCR. for more informaiton see here - </SPAN><A href="https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=33&amp;t=44739" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=33&amp;t=44739</A></BODY></HTML> Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:47:21 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/server-side-ocr-with-abbyy-recognition-server/m-p/231910#M185040 wmay 2012-08-01T14:47:21Z