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Rotate with Laserfiche Distributed Processing not working

Distributed Computing Cluster

Updated September 19, 2014

asked on September 18, 2014

Hi All,

Quick question. I'm trying to get distributed computing cluster to automatically rotate documents. Here is what I have setup so far.

Get workflow to find one document (just for testing). Page 2 of this document is upside down.

I've got both Auto Rotate ticked and rotate image turned on in additional options

However no matter what combination or whatever I try it doesn't rotate the document. The workflow is running with no errors and the document shows as being processed in the performance tab of the web admin console.

Is this a known issue? Can you reproduce this? Am I missing something?

Thanks.

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replied on September 18, 2014 • Show version history

Distributed Clustering only OCR's images. If you are telling it to rotate, it is only doing that during run-time to be able to OCR the document and does not change the pages itself. The results of what you are doing should be always properly oriented text OCR'd, but nothing would change to on the entries themselves.

EDIT:

I do believe though that Laserfiche plans to make use of this functionality more in the future, so seeing Distributed Clustering handle generating pages is not completely out of the question, it just is not a current feature of this particular product.

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replied on September 18, 2014

If the text is being generated correctly then it's working, it's just doing that in the "Perform Image enhancement" section. Anything done in this section will only apply for the OCR and will not be saved.

To get it to rotate or orient to the proper direction permanently you need to turn on orient text.

http://www.laserfiche.com/support/webhelp/webaccess/9.1/en-US/WA/WebAccess.htm#Settings.OCR Settings.htm

However there is on caveat to all of this -- if there is text oriented differently on the top of the document, the OCR engine may key in on that and rotate to match that. This is a common problem with faxes where the person sending the fax has sent it upside down. This issue also shows up in the majority of other OCR software out there.

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replied on September 18, 2014

Is the text generated correct?

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replied on September 18, 2014

I don't think Chris is actually reporting about the text associated to the entry right now, but rather was assuming the rotation would be applied to the pages of the entry itself. But that is not made completely clear in this question

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replied on September 18, 2014

Yes, and that is why I'm asking about the text. If it is correct, then OCR is working as designed (though not necessarily the way he expected it). If the text is not correct, then there are other considerations as to what could be going on (even if the answer could still end up being that auto-rotate during OCR is a temporary image enhancement and the generated image is not saved back to the document).

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replied on September 19, 2014

Thanks for the replies guys (although I am no longer getting email notifications from answers for some reason).

This makes a little more sense now. The document is OCR'd correctly yes, however I was kind of hoping if it has to rotate the image for OCR that it would actually rotate and save the changes to the document. Can I add this as a feature request please Miruna?

Cheers!

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replied on September 19, 2014

Sure. I would like to mention that this behavior is consistent for OCR across all our products though.

I'll get somebody to double-check on your email notifications too.

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