Screen Scraping is a commonly used method for transferring data from one application to another by using OCR to read text from the application window.
Change the OCR Font or Type
Monday, 29 July 2019
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete OCR Options reference. This is used to changed the default OCR recognition font or type from the default, which is “To Be Detected”. This can be used to look for a specific type of OCR font and is especially useful for recognizing things like Dotmatrix, OCR A and OCR B.
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How do you train the OCR engine for better accuracy?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Training has been removed with version 7 due to the addition of the ABBYY FineReader OCR engine.
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How can I improve recognition rates for my OCR fields?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
There are several things you can do to improve accuracy for OCR. Scan at 300dpi, black & white for best results. Adjust the scan settings to remove background noise and improve the definition of characters. For Zone OCR, field recognition can often vary based on the surrounding white space and text in the zone. Try
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Indexing from Applications with Screen OCR
Monday, 29 January 2018
Some documents are difficult or impossible to automate with OCR. For example, documents with non-standard layouts, unconstrained handwriting or very poor scan quality. In applications like invoice processing, fully automating the data entry can require expensive software and weeks of consulting. Even after all that expense, many users miss the interface and data validations that

