This page describes the setup of an independent OCR appliance a Google Cloud based OCR setup for use with the Extended DMS environment. DMS will access the OCR appliance and issue commands so that documents to be OCR'ed are uploaded to Google Cloud, OCR is performed there, and the result is returned. The advantages are advantage is that the DMS appliance's resources resource (CPU, RAM) are thus is not consumed by the OCR processing and that OCR takes advantage of the high accuracy and potential speed of the Google Cloud Vision technology. Note that the Google Cloud service is not free of charge an requires an active Google Cloud account. See: https://cloud.google.com/vision/pricing
The below instructions describe the setup of the appliance on DMS host machine. Probably it Using this OCR method will not significantly affect performance of DMS, because it's only making small http calls to google API, no processing done with these scriptsthe DMS service; the scripts involved are only making https calls to the google API and will be relaying documents but do not perform any processing of the documents.
Components and setup required:
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