Dear Support
Does OCR cloud service support use of OCR dictionaries ideally by application ID? Alternatively, can a dictionary word list be submitted with the task?
David
Support for Application Dictionary in OCR Cloud
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Unfortunately, in Cloud OCR SDK user dictionaries are not supported. You can only use dictionaries that are included in the predefined languages: http://ocrsdk.com/documentation/specifications/recognition-languages/
Could you please clarify what does it mean "use of OCR dictionaries by application ID"?
Dear Anastasia
I believe, a dictionary (=word list) could increase success rate of business 'slang' words that cannot exist in any other dictionary, such as: - Example: Kolaximundial, Lurakumunda, Pontenarulin - Product codes: MMN-40011, MMN-41113, MMN-41114 (potential issues with capital letter i and the number one) - Perhaps chemistry formulas (not many are around)
In my case, a rather small list 100-300 terms could help to increase the hit rate in recognition.
David
Thank you for the information. Unfortunately, now support of user dictionaries is not in the nearest plans, as usually user dictionary is used for a lot of tasks, and we process tasks separately - so the dictionary should be loaded for each task, it's not optimal.
We have regular expressions in field-level recognition, it could be used as user dictionary, if you recognize text by fields.
You can test, if user dictionaries are really helpful for your task, by using the trial version of FineReader.
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