2.80:Layered OCR (OCR Engine)
Layered OCR enables you to run secondary OCR Profiles on a single page. The OCR results from these secondary OCR Profiles are merged with (or layered on top of) the primary OCR Profile's results.
About
You can use Layered OCR by selecting it as your OCR Engine in an OCR Profile. While not itself an OCR Engine, such as Transym or Tesseract, it allows you to obtain OCR text with multiple OCR Profiles, each using their own OCR engines.
For example, certain OCR engines have advantages over others in specific cases. Transym performs well in most cases. However, it does not do well with certain specialized print types, such as MICR or handwriting. Another engine may perform better in these cases. Microsoft's Azure Computer Vision does better than most OCR engines at recognizing handwriting (but requires a licence key from Microsoft). Google's Tesseract has the capability to train fonts. Grooper ships with both Transym and Tesseract as selectable OCR engines. Furthermore, training files for the MICR, OCR-A, and OCR-B fonts are included.
| For the check below, an OCR Profile using Transym performed well generally, but failed to read the MICR line at the bottom. Tesseract got the MICR line, but had issues recognizing other parts of the check. | |
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| Transym accurately reads the check's text except for the MICR Line | Tesseract has issues with other parts of the check. |
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| With Layered OCR you can use an OCR Profile using Transym as your primary or baseline OCR results (seen in teal), and target the MICR line with an extractor to pull the results from an OCR Profile using Tesseract (seen in orange). | |
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