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Updated November 3, 2016

asked on November 2, 2016

Hi,

Our client is using LF 10.1 Forms.

One of the issues we are facing is when the forms are saved as PDF or TTIFF, they are not legible. Text looks blurry even on a high def monitor. The words are pressed together reducing the OCR accuracy.

Can you please suggest what font/setting I should use on the form to make A) the text appear crisp when they are saved as TIFF to a repository and B) OCR process more accurate (Fixing A may fix this).

Please read the below example, a lot of documents have even lower OCR accuracy. In workflow where these docs are OCRd, I am using Accuracy for Optimisation.

Rease do not disclose any specific confidential information at this time as this content could be used in the creation of a Fequest for Roposal
(F49 document or sirrilar and released to the public through our procurerrent process.
Please Note:VVe provide you the ability to save this form until you are ready to submt it to .Just use the'Save Draft'button at the
bottomof the page.Viten you do save the formwe will send an email to the address you have specified that contains a link aicldng on this link
will open the formand allow you to corrplete the Concept Formor save it again if you desire.

Thanks,

Adarsh

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What is the width of your form? The OCR result is more accurate when the form width is <=800 px for the form is not auto resized when generate as tiff. see following screenshot with form width set to 800 px:

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replied on November 3, 2016

Hi Xiuhong,

Thanks for your answer. My form width is 1000 for most and 1200 for some. When I reduce the width to 800, the clarity of the document is much better.

So what I have done is, I still use the form with width as much as I want but I have created a duplicate of the same form where I have reduced the width to 800 and save this duplicate form in the repository.

I need to see how this works out after additional testing. I will keep you posted.

Thanks,

Adarsh

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replied on November 3, 2016

Hi Adarsh,

I've had problems with this too and haven't really got the bottom of it yet. Having said that it seems you can make the PDF natively searcheable by having the relevant IFilter installed on the LF Server. It was discussed here: - http://answers.laserfiche.com/questions/100602/Feature-Request--forms-submission-natively-text-searchable

I've had mixed results when trying to OCR outputted forms, mainly the results have been pretty poor. I was dicussing it here: - http://answers.laserfiche.com/questions/105491/Cannot-OCR-colour-TIF-files-generated-by-Forms

Hopefully one of these points you in the right direction!

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replied on November 3, 2016

Hi Chris,

Thanks for those articles, yes I have had similar issues.

As suggested by Xiuhong, try to limit the width of the saved form to 800. You can create a duplicate form with width set to 800 if your original form is bigger.

Also, I too would have loved to have an OCR option and Link option available with in the form. I have setup extra workflows to carry out these.

Thanks,

Adarsh

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