Use Microsoft Azure Computer Vision OCR engine

Microsoft Azure Computer Vision OCR engine is a cloud OCR engine and is available to all customers of IQ Bot. IQ Bot automates some installation steps for Microsoft Azure Computer Vision OCR engine.

When you process documents using the Microsoft Azure Computer Vision OCR engine, data is removed immediately. Microsoft Azure Computer Vision OCR engine provides approximately 18% STP and 80% accuracy with data extraction. For more information on privacy for data retention, see Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services.

Note: IQ Bot also supports containerized deployment of Microsoft Azure Computer Vision OCR engine:

Configure IQ Bot using Docker container and Azure OCR (A-People login required)

When creating a learning instance, you can select any language from the Primary language of documents drop-down menu. During processing, the OCR engine tries to auto-detect the primary language and can override your selection. For example, you can specify English, but if you upload a Spanish document, the API will try to process the Spanish language.

Tip: You can troubleshoot any issues with extracting data from low quality or handwritten documents IQ Bot unable to extract data from low quality and Handwritten documents (A-People login required)

Follow the steps to configure the Settings.txt file and use Microsoft Azure Computer Vision OCR engine.

Important: Configuring the settings.txt file is not applicable to Automation 360 IQ Bot Cloud

Procedure

List of service URLs used for Microsoft Azure Computer Vision OCR engine (optional)

https://aai-iq-bot-ocr.cognitiveservices.azure.com/
https://aai-iq-bot-ocr-spellcheck.cognitiveservices.azure.com/

Note: All URLs point to a global service region in United States.

If IQ Bot is unable to process a document using Microsoft Azure Computer Vision OCR engine, you can review the troubleshooting tips.

IQ Bot unable to process the document with Microsoft Azure OCR (A-People login required)