I am using ocr cloud sdk in my application for ocr. I want to know that how to detect bold/italic characters in xml returned by cloud service. I am using following code to get xml
String url = string.Format("http://cloud.ocrsdk.com/processImage?language={0}&exportFormat={1},{2}", language, exportFormat, "xml");
var request = CreateRequest(url, "POST", Credentials, Proxy);
In this link following answer is posted by a user.
The parameter xcf (--xmlWriteCharFormatting) is neccessary to get the font size.
I want to know if this parameter also works in cloud ocr service or there is some other parameters/way to detect bold/italic characters.
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The XML output format that ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK creates is the same that ABBYY FineReader Engine creates with the default options. It contains information on text and characters, but does not support the character formatting information, such as bold/italic/underlined font styles. Unfortunately, now the XML scheme in Cloud OCR SDK can only be expanded by setting the parameter xml:writeRecognitionVariants to true (it specifies whether the variants of characters recognition should be written to the output file).
Please vote if you want to have the information about text font styles for the feature request: http://forum.ocrsdk.com/questions/3693/feature-request-font-info-in-xml. Hope it will be implemented in future.
Hi,
We are happy to inform you that the requested functionality has been recently implemented in ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK. Now it is possible to get information about the paragraph and character styles in the XML export format. For this please use the xml:writeFormatting parameter of the processImage or processDocument methods and set it to true (by default it is false).
Hi,
I'm trying to use xml:writeFormatting parameter to get paragraph or line format information. But i came across style attribute in par and formatting tags. What does it represent?
Example :-
<par align="Justified" style="{FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF}">
<line>..
<formatting lang="EnglishUnitedStates" ff="Arial" fs="10." underline="1" style="{99A6515E-DE65-4325-9F9D-99D8674C0010}">
..
..
</line>
</par>
Thanks,
Vishnu
I could see some italic attribute detected but i can't able to find any bold attribute in formatting/charParams tag from the xml response, though the uploaded documents(clear ones) contain bold words.
Hi Vishnu,
The information about the font attributes could be found under the fontStyle tag of the output XML document. If there is no bold attributes in the output XML, it means that text of the source document has not been treated as bold.
For more specific recommendations, could you post here the source document?
Hi helen,
Here is a sample image in which only italic is detected.
But i could able to retrieve bold words when i try as suggested by oksana here
Is it possible that i could able to get formatting information(bold, etc) using "text detection" profile itself?
Thanks,
Vishnu
Hi Vishnu,
It is possible to get the information about formatting attributes using the textExtraction profile. For your document, we can also suggest using the imageSource=scanner option, so the request to the server will look as follows:
Please find attached the XML file obtained using these settings.
Hi Helen,
In the documentation it says "auto" mode is capable of detecting imageSource of the document automatically. But it sometimes treats scanned image as a photo/captured image.
Thanks,
vishnu
Hi Vishnu,
The thing is that Cloud OCR SDK is designed with the assumption that most of users uploads photographed documents. For this reason, with the imageSource=auto parameter Cloud OCR SDK sometimes treats the scanned documents as photos. To avoid such behavior kindly apply the imageSource=scanner setting.
Hope this information will be helpful!
Hi Helen,
I see line spacing option in some paragraph tags like
<par lineSpacing="3600" style="{FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF}">
What does 3600 represents? Also I would like to know how it can be useful if it is not available for every par/line tags.
Thanks,
Vishnu
Hi Vishnu,
The lineSpacing attribute represents the space between two lines in the paragraph. Kindly learn the description of main XML tags used in Cloud OCR SDK from the Output XML document article.
Hi there, the Output XML referred to above does not contain units. A linespacing=920, means 920 what? Certainly not points.It gets close to realistic if divided by 100 but it's not exact.
At the same time, font size seems to be directly in points.
Are these measures related to the page size/resolution?
Thanks!
Also, I am unable to get the colors. C# Color.FromArgb() yields in different results.
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