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OCR

Overview​

The OCR (Optical Character Recognition) integration can be used to convert documents and images (such as invoices, reports, and forms) into machine-readable text. This extracted text can then be used to create a document processing system that streamlines operations.

Use cases​

Extract text from an image​

Use an Input component coupled with an Image component to visualize an image in your application. Connect a Button component to the OCR integration and quickly extract text from the provided URL to pass through to subsequent APIs or Workflows.

Extract text from an image of a check and use Python to structure it in json format

Creating OCR steps​

Actions​

From File​

Given an image or PDF file, convert to machine-readable text

FieldDescription
FileA file to be converted to text. Supported file types: ['jpg', 'jpeg', 'png', 'bmp', 'pdf', 'tiff']
info

If using a FilePicker component to submit files, the syntax will be {{FilePicker1.files[0]}}

From URL​

Given a URL to an image or PDF file, convert to machine-readable text

FieldDescription
URLA URL to a file to be converted to text. Supported file types: ['jpg', 'jpeg', 'png', 'bmp', 'pdf', 'tiff']