Function to remove accents from strings such as:
É becomes E
ç becomes c
Very usefull for text parsing and recognition
Thank you for the request. A token function for replacing characters is on our To Do list. We don't have a project release date at this time.
If I can stress Miruna the importance of a function specific to accents as quite many ASCII characters are involved in French.
Thank you for Laserfiche's consideration.
Lou
Can you describe your use case?
Innovimage is developing a solution for Ville de Beloeil (already a LF client) whereby lawyers' contracts are moved in the repository and then OCRed.
Dates here in Québec must be letter-written, so we get sort of:
Le vingt août
LE VINGTIÈME JOUR D'AOUT
le vingtieme jour d'AOÛT
With the requested function, we could normalize (then reduce the number of combinations) the above instances to:
LE VINGT AOUT
LE VINGTIEME JOUR D'AOUT
In the project, having the requested function would reduce the overall number of combinations to 61 (from 91).
IMHO function «Unaccented» is a natural extension to functions «To Lower» and «To Upper»
Hi,
I do have a similar request. I need to convert string characters from an old database that uses an old OEM code page to Windows ANSI. For sure, a token function to replace characters could do the trick as well.
Hi Miruna
I got a situation in where by pattern matching I work the entry name to obtain two values who I cross in a SQL table to obtain the rest of the info I need.
My problem came when some of the words in one of those two phrases got accents (´) and sometimes don’t, and in the table never got. So My simple “Query data” not always work.
I know I can make a custom query before to make a replace of those values, but I want to know if there is some workflow instruction to achieve this so don’t need to run a query before.