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Are both Batch OCR and Ad-hoc OCR licensed per workstation?

Yes, both Batch OCR and Ad-hoc Document OCR are licensed per workstation. This means that the workstation performing the OCR (OCR engine is installed on this machine) must be registered for OCR, but other workstations can send to OCR without a works...

ProductView - OCR: Search Your Image Documents

Thurs, April 7th at 2:00PM EDTPresenter: Colleen AlberFinding what you need in an image document with thousands of pages is like looking for a needle in a haystack. OnBase optical character recognition (OCR) software finds the needle for you. The OCR...

How many OCR licenses does a customer need?

The average OnBase Batch OCR customer has 1.7 licenses, so many customers have more than one license. It depends where they need to OCR, and the volume, because OCR licenses are workstation based.It makes sense to have at least a Batch OCR license a...

Can the OCR Process skip searchable type PDFs?

Currently the OCR engine will process all PDF documents, both image-only and searchable. There is an option to exlude all PDFs from the OCR process which is configurable in the OCR Format, but it also would skip both searchable and image-only type P...

OnBase OCR and support for Windows 7

OnBase OCR is fully supported on Windows 7.Please note that our 9.2 Module Reference Guide states that OnBase OCR is not supported on Windows 7. That will be changed in the next version of the MRG. When we published this MRG, ScanSoft had not yet u...

Is OCR supported on Windows 2003 Server?

While Windows 2003 Server SP 1 or greater is supported by other OnBase modules, it is not supported by the ScanSoft OCR engine and is therefore not supported for OCR.

Product Video - Batch and Ad-Hoc OCR

This Product Overview Session for Batch and Ad-Hoc OCR provides basic product information for our OCR product. Both a FLASH movie with audio and the PowerPoint file are linked to this post. [View:/community/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-compon...

Can OCR occur automatically, for both Batch OCR and Ad-Hoc OCR?

Yes, you can set your OCR workstation to automatically OCR documents and batches as they arrive in the Awaiting OCR and Awaiting Ad-Hoc OCR queues.Add this command line switch to your Client shortcut, on the OCR workstation, and it will look for docu...

Workflow tasks for sending documents for OCR

Two new actions were added to Workflow in 8.0 for routing documents to an Ad-hoc OCR process queue to have OCR performed. Both of these actions will route the document or related document to the Awaiting Ad-Hoc OCR Queue in the Document Imaging wind...

Screenshot - OCR - Batch OCR

This screenshot shows the process of selecting to OCR a scanned batch in the OnBase Client. The full-size image is also available.

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