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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 6, 2022

Have a field to inform the OCR DPI

When working with PDF data extraction, using OCR, the default DPI value of the "Get PDF Region Text" command is 110, leaving the image very small, reducing the accuracy of the result. Having a field where I can easily change this number and have IBM RPA recalculate the region on top of this value, we will have better accuracy in extracting data from the PDF.



defVar --name pdf --type Pdf
defVar --name _region --type Rectangle --parameter --output
defVar --name _points --type List --innertype String
defVar --name _point --type Numeric
defVar --name _text --type String
defVar --name _newRegion --type String
defVar --name _page --type Numeric
defVar --name success --type Boolean
pdfOpen --file "C:\\Users\\003925631\\Desktop\\PDF\\CLC001520_INVOICE_ORIGINAL_107102.pdf" success=success pdf=value

setVar --name "${_region}" --value "470,318,53,12"

goSub --label CommonMethod

#region Improve OCR Accuracy
goSub --label CalculateRewRegion
#endregion

pdfClose --file ${pdf}

beginSub --name CalculateRewRegion
logMessage --message ">> Region Before [${_region}]" --type "Info"
splitString --text "${_region}" --delimiteroption "CustomDelimiter" --customdelimiter "," --comment "Take the region and convert it to a 4-point list" _points=value
foreach --collection "${_points}" --variable "${_text}"
convertStringToNumber --text "${_text}" _point=value
evaluate --expression "${_point} * 2" --comment "multiply the point by 2" _point=value
concatTexts --text "${_newRegion}" --value "${_point}," --comment "concatenate the result creating a new reference" _newRegion=value
endFor
getRegex --text "${_newRegion}" --regexPattern "(.+)\\," --regexOptions "0" --groupnumber 1 --comment "remove the last comma" _newRegion=value
logMessage --message ">> Region After [${_newRegion}]" --type "Info"
setVar --name "${_region}" --value "${_newRegion}"
pdfRegionText --language "en-US" --region "${_region}" --useocr --ocrprovider "Abbyy" --page ${_page} --dpix 220 --dpiy 220 --file ${pdf} _text=value
trimString --text "${_text}" --trimoption "TrimStartAndEnd" _text=value
logMessage --message "${wdg:subName} [${_text}]" --type "Info"
endSub
beginSub --name CommonMethod
setVar --name "${_page}" --value 1
pdfRegionText --language "en-US" --region "${_region}" --useocr --ocrprovider "Abbyy" --page ${_page} --dpix 110 --dpiy 110 --file ${pdf} _text=value
trimString --text "${_text}" --trimoption "TrimStartAndEnd" _text=value
logMessage --message "${wdg:subName} [${_text}]" --type "Info"
endSub


Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jun 7, 2022

    I can't, because the pdf files are from the client.

  • Guest
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    Jun 7, 2022

    can you also attach the PDF used?

  • Guest
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    Jun 6, 2022

    I just added the attached.

  • Guest
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    Jun 6, 2022

    do you have more details? maybe a screenshot or script?