topic Re: OCR Scanned PDF for Search Indexing in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ocr-scanned-pdf-for-search-indexing/m-p/247088#M200218 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Custom transformer that uses PDFBox to extract text. If the extracted text count is 0 or less than a small value, OCR them. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When we looked into this before, the recommendation to determine if a PDF is an image or a text PDF was to see if there were any embedded fonts. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Ainga</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 29 May 2012 20:34:24 GMT zaizi 2012-05-29T20:34:24Z OCR Scanned PDF for Search Indexing https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ocr-scanned-pdf-for-search-indexing/m-p/247087#M200217 I'm relatively new to Alfresco and have recently setup an environment where scanned bitmaps are run through a transformer for text/plain through tesseract OCR. This works brilliantly for single-page documents scanned into PNG, JPEG, TIFF, etc.For multi-page documents my scanner will create a PDF. Ho Sun, 27 May 2012 18:46:24 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ocr-scanned-pdf-for-search-indexing/m-p/247087#M200217 pjaromin 2012-05-27T18:46:24Z Re: OCR Scanned PDF for Search Indexing https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ocr-scanned-pdf-for-search-indexing/m-p/247088#M200218 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Custom transformer that uses PDFBox to extract text. If the extracted text count is 0 or less than a small value, OCR them. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When we looked into this before, the recommendation to determine if a PDF is an image or a text PDF was to see if there were any embedded fonts. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Ainga</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 29 May 2012 20:34:24 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ocr-scanned-pdf-for-search-indexing/m-p/247088#M200218 zaizi 2012-05-29T20:34:24Z Re: OCR Scanned PDF for Search Indexing https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ocr-scanned-pdf-for-search-indexing/m-p/247089#M200219 <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 14:39:47 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/ocr-scanned-pdf-for-search-indexing/m-p/247089#M200219 wmay 2012-08-01T14:39:47Z