Installing an OCR Component

yuuvis® RAD 10.x

The 'ocrservice' microservice includes the text recognition software ABBYY FineReader, which generates text documents for full-text indexing and PDF files with hidden text from image documents. The 'Index file for full-text search' property is required for the object types.

Tesseract and ABBYY FineReader are available as OCR components.

FineReader/Tesseract in comparison
	FineReader	Tesseract
License	SMUA license provided by OPTIMAL SYSTEMS	License-free Apache license version 2.0
Installation	Installation via a setup file included as part of the installation data	Part of the yuuvis® RAD service-manager installation
Languages	Additional fees may be apply for further languages	Additional languages available free of charge
Supported image formats	FineReader documentation	Tesseract documentation
PDF rendition with hidden text	Yes	Yes
PDF/A rendition	Yes	No
Barcode recognition	Yes	No
Number of cores	May be subject to additional fees depending on the license	Not licensed-based/no additional costs, default: 4

Tesseract

Tesseract is installed as part of yuuvis® RAD service-manager. Tesseract is preconfigured if the corresponding option is activated.

The <service-manager>\config\ocr–prod.yml configuration file is created during installation. The file contains the languages that are specified during installation. The file can be edited to include additional or other languages.

Example:

tesseract:
  languages: deu,eng 
                                                            

The 'ocrservice' service for Tesseract is included in the <service-manager>\config\servicewatcher-sw.yml configuration file:

- name: ocrservice
  type: microservice
  profiles: prod,cloud,red,tesseract
  instances: 1
  memory: 512M
  port: 7241-7250
  path: ${appBase}/ocrservice/ocrservice-app.jar
  env:
    ProgramData: null
    ALLUSERSPROFILE: null
    #OMP_THREAD_LIMIT: 4
                                                            

The OCR engine must be configured in the route.properties configuration file located in the \rendition-plus\webapps\osrenditioncache\WEB-INF\classes\config\ directory:

ocr-engine=finereader

In general, the finereader parameter activates an OCR component (ABBYY FineReader or Tesseract).

Language for Tesseract

The following languages are available for Tesseract:

Abbreviation	Language
chi_sim	Chinese (simplified)
chi_sim_vert	Chinese vertical (simplified)
eng	German
eng	English
fra	French
ind	Indonesian
ita	Italian
jpn	Japanese
jpn_vert	Japanese vertical
kor	Korean
kor	Korean vertical
msa	Malay
spa	Spanish
tha	Thai

The language files for these languages are installed in the \<service-manager>\data\tesseract_data directory. Other languages are available for download and must be copied to this directory.

ABBYY FineReader

To install ABBYY FineReader, you need a license file, which you can purchase via OPTIMAL SYSTEMS and import into the directories \bin and \bin64 of the ABBYY FineReader installation.

ABBYY FineReader must be installed on a computer on which yuuvis® RAD service-manager is installed with the 'ocr', 'adminservice', 'discoveryservice', and 'renditionsidecar' services.

ABBYY FineReader is installed via the setup.exe application from the \finereader installation directory. Follow the installation dialogs.

After installation, settings for PDF creation in particular can be adapted via the ocr-prod.yml configuration file located in the \<service-manager>\config\ directory.

Integration into the Microservice Infrastructure

To integrate ABBYY FineReader, follow these steps

Enter the number of instances in the servicewatcher-sw.yml configuration file located in the \<service-manager>\config\ directory:

- name: ocrservice
  type: microservice
  profiles: prod,cloud,red
  instances: 0
  memory: 128M
  port: 7241-7250
  path: ${appBase}/ocrservice/ocrservice-app.jar
  env:
    ProgramData: null
    ALLUSERSPROFILE: null
                                                                    

If yuuvis® RAD rendition-plus is also not installed at the workstation, then the IP of yuuvis® RAD rendition-plus must be entered in the application-red.yml configuration file located in the \<service-manager>\config\ directory:
yuuvis.rendition.server: <host>:8090
ABBYY FineReader must be configured as an OCR component in the route.properties configuration file located in the \rendition-plus\webapps\osrenditioncache\WEB-INF\classes\config\ directory:
ocr-engine=finereader

In general, the finereader parameter activates an OCR component (ABBYY FineReader or Tesseract).

Uninstalling

You can uninstall ABBYY FineReader via the Windows Control Panel.

Updates

For information on updating components, see Release Information.