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OCR Capabilities for scanned documents

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Hello team,

In one use case I'm working on, data needs to be extracted from scanned PDF copies of all documents.

I have tried by using Extract text with OCR activity with two options like windows OCR engine and Tesseract OCR engine but it seems the accuracy is only 60% with these OCR engines.

Is there any other OCR engines which is suitable for scanned documents with more than 90% accuracy?

I am good if it is paid also.

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  • momlo Profile Picture
    1,527 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Hi @sdeokule 

    You can use AI Builder wich is available as part of Power Platform and as a cloud service. It costs money though.

    https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/ai-builder/

  • Pavel_NaNoi Profile Picture
    1,074 on at

    If you're paying for flows, you can get a free trial of AI builder and get 5k credits spare each month (which is about 10 documents iirc), use that to see if its what you need.

  • sdeokule Profile Picture
    31 on at

    Hello Momlo,

    Yeah there are options through AI builder but i am expecting these actions in power automate desktop because i have some other dependency.Is there any option through PAD to invoke these services

  • momlo Profile Picture
    1,527 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    yes, you can do this in a several ways - you can search the forum and you will find posts where i described some of my flows

     

    In a nutshell, three options:

    - set up power automate flow triggered by api, then in PAD call this flow with web request, passign the file

    - set up power automate flow the triggers for each new file in a sharepoitn library, then use sharepoint actions to save file to sharepoint

    - set up power automate flow the triggers for each new file in a sharepoitn library, then save the file into onedrive fodler on the machie, that is synchronised with onedribe/sharepoint

     

    In each scenario your power autoatme flows needs to:

    - pass the file vai ai builder

    - pass the results back to pad, if run via web call - as a response, if file stored on sharepoint - store in a excel or json or whatever file you wil lthen read back in PAD

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    mathiaskjeldsen Profile Picture
    224 on at
    Hi
     
    I believe they are developing these engines constantly - when I try using it now it works almost 100%
     
     
    Best regards
    Mathias Kjeldsen
     
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