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OCR for data extraction from a PDF File

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Hi,

 

I am trying to create a workflow for extracting particular data like invoice number from PDF file using OCR. which is the best OCR to use in this case.

 

Thanks in advance,

Kiran.

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    @Anonymous - The Power Platform has an AI Builder option called "Forms Processing". It can reviews files and "parse" the data from the form and produce an output to be used in Power Automate. Currently, Microsoft has this flagged for General Availability in March 2020. Here are more details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform-release-plan/2019wave2/ai-builder/use-form-processing-model-power-platform

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    mathiaskjeldsen 224 on at
    Hey
     
    I recently did testing of both Microsoft and Tesseract engine, and I found Windows to actually outperform Tesseract. I believe you simply need to test the two engines in your scenario.
     
     
    Best regards
    Mathias Kjeldsen
     
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