Use the magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) OCR feature with ABBYY FineReader Engine version 12.2 support to extract MICR data from financial checks.

Prerequisites

Note: Documents in Non-Latin based languages cannot be processed if MICR is enabled on ABBYY FineReader Engine OCR version 12.3 and 12.4.
  • Ensure that ABBYY FineReader Engine is installed in the plug-ins folder: \OCR Plugins\ABBYY SDK\12\. . ..
  • From the C:\Program Files (x86)\Automation Anywhere IQ Bot (version)\Configurations folder, open the Settings.txt file, change OCREngine=Tesseract4 to OCREngine=Abbyy, and save the file.
Note: A system restart is not required.

The MICR feature is supported with ABBYY FineReader Engine versions 12.2 .

Procedure

  1. Set ABBYY FineReader Engine in your settings.txt file as the primary OCR engine.
  2. Navigate to the IQ Bot\Configurations\AbbyyImagePreProcessingSettings.json file.
  3. Update these parameters:
    • TextTypes = 129
    • DetectTextTypesIndependently =true
    The MICR feature is activated in the system.

Next steps

  • Create a learning instance and add form fields to extract MICR data from financial checks such as MICR and Pay to fields.
  • Scan and upload a check to IQ Bot for training. In production, upload the financial checks for accurate MICR data extraction.
  • In the Designer, map the MICR data in the financial check for extraction.
  • In production, upload the financial checks for accurate MICR data extraction.