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Automatically extract information from a document

matignon — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:11:24 GMT

Hello,I'm looking for a programm, which could automatically extract defined informations and save it in a fields (those fields would be used by an other software through an interface)For example, I'm getting a bill from Apple. Thanks the predefined areas (in an area, there is the adress of the compa

Re: Automatically extract information from a document

angelborroy — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:36:36 GMT

Alfresco cannot extract this information out-of-the-box. You need some external software as Ephesoft or Kofax to perform this operations before uploading your documents to Alfresco.

Re: Automatically extract information from a document

mitpatoliya — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 12:20:08 GMT

Technical word for thing which you are looking for is "OCR" --> Optical Character Reorganization

Alfresco does not have this ability. You can go for Epehsoft or Kofax like tools to achieve that.

There are many plugins available which will help you to integrate Alfresco and those tools.

What Alfresco do is called Meta data Extraction--> Where it can read some predefined metadata like author, name ,description etc.. from well known document types and map it with alfresco content model.

Re: Automatically extract information from a document

matignon — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 12:57:28 GMT

Thanks very much for your quick answer. I'll have a look on the two mentionned software!

Re: Automatically extract information from a document

douglascrp — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 13:49:59 GMT

Mittal Patoliya‌ Actually, the OCR is only part of the problem.

OCR will extract the text content from the image, but what Matt ignon needs is something more advanced.

In Kofax, they call it Page/Form recognition, in Ephesoft, Intelligent Document Capture (IDR), and in Captiva, Intelligent document recognition

Matt ignon I believe those are the "terms" you should be searching for.

EDIT:

Some links:

https://www.bluefishgroup.com/insights/ecm/whats-so-intelligent-about-intelligent-document-capture/

EMC Captiva - The Power of Intelligent Document Recognition

ftp://ftp.kofax.com/pub/support/capture/obsolete/ac/7/product_documentation/application_notes/docsepandformidwp.pdf