ABBYY Recognition Server 2.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide Table of Contents Introduction.................................................................................... 4 Architecture.................................................................................... 5 Main Components..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide Managing Licenses ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 24 Managing User Accounts........................................................................................................................................................................................
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide Introduction Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a technology that enables you to convert scanned or photographed images of printed documents into machine editable and searchable text. ABBYY Recognition Server is a robust and powerful server based solution for automating optical character recognition and PDF conversion of medium and high volumes of documents.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide Architecture Main Components ABBYY Recognition Server consists of 6 components: Server Manager, Processing Station, Verification Station, Remote Administration Console, COM based API, and Web Service. Server Manager This is the main component.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide COM based API This API allows you to integrate Recognition Server with other applications in the local area network. The COM based API component should be installed on the computer on which the client application will run. It can also be distributed together with the client application. See more information about the distribution of the COM based API in the Open API Help file.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide folder can be viewed and changed in the Recognition Server Properties dialog box of the Remote Administration Console. The image files are kept In the Images subfolder of the Server Manager temporary folder throughout the entire conversion process. The Processing Stations and Verification Stations receive copies of those images for processing. This ensures that no files are lost in case an error occurs during the recognition or verification.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide Fault Tolerance As ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 runs completely unattended, it has a number of fault tolerance features that ensure robustness of the system: • The system starts automatically at Windows startup. For example, in the case of a temporary power loss, ABBYY Recognition Server will be up and running automatically after the PC is rebooted. • Documents are processed so that no data are lost in the case of a system failure.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide Installation ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 includes a specialized installation program that automates the setup process. To insure proper installation, always use the ABBYY Recognition Server CD ROM for installation. The installation program allows you to install ABBYY Recognition Server components on one computer or on several different computers.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide • Hard disk space: 15 MB • Microsoft .NET Framework 1.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide Selecting program components You can select the program components you wish to install. By default the Server Manager, the Processing Station, the Verification Station and the Remote Administration Console components are marked for installation. Note: • If you select the Web Service component for installation, Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and Microsoft .NET Framework (including Microsift ASP.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide You should select User account in the following cases: • If the Server Manager and the Processing Stations will be installed on different computers in a workgroup network. • If the Server Manager and the Processing Stations will be installed on different computers in a domain based network and the TCP/IP protocol will be used instead of Named Pipes (see details in the Connection protocols section).
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide • After entering the username and password, the message “Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer” appears. This means the system has failed to run the services under this account. This may happen if the user account you have entered does not have sufficient permissions to run the services. Make sure that the user account meets the requirements described above.
TYPE System The user account under which the services will be run after installation. The value of this option may be one of the following: System – Local System account, User User account. In the latter case you need to specify SERVICELOGIN and SERVICEPASSWORD. SERVICELOGIN The username under which the Server Manager and the Processing Station services will be run. SERVICEPASSWORD The password corresponding to the username.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide 3. In the Action menu, select New/Package. 4. In the Package Properties dialog box, enter the required package properties. 5. 6. 7. Click the Data Source tab. Make sure that the This package contains source files box is not selected and click OK. In the package you have just created, select Programs.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide 8. In the Action menu, select New/Program. 9. On the General tab of the Program Properties dialog box: • Enter a descriptive name of the program in the Name field. • Type setup.exe /q in the Command line field.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide 10. On the Environment tab of the Program Properties dialog box: • Clear the User input required box. • Select Run with administrative rights. • Make sure that Runs with UNC name is selected. 11. Change the condition in the Program can run field if required and click OK. 12. You can also use the Distribute Software Wizard. To run the wizard, select All Tasks/Distribute Software on the Action menu and follow the instructions of the wizard.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide Manual Registration of the SharePoint Connection Library To communicate with Microsoft SharePoint Server, the Server Manager and the Remote Administration Console require Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 or higher to be installed. If Microsoft .NET Framework has not been installed on the computer prior to installing ABBYY Recognition Server, the SharePoint connection library will not be registered during the installation.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide Protection Technology and License Activation A special protection technology is used to protect ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 from illegal copying and distribution. This technology effectively excludes unauthorized use of ABBYY products by persons who have not signed a License Agreement with the software copyright owner.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide Administering ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 is administrated via a separate component, the Remote Administration Console, which is based on the Microsoft Management Console (MMC).
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide 5. Click OK. A node corresponding to the registered copy will appear in the ABBYY Recognition Servers node. How to Register a New Processing Station If the Server Manager and a Processing Station have been installed on different computers, you need to register the Processing Station in the Recognition Server. To register a new Processing Station: 1. Select the ABBYY Recognition Servers\Recognition Server\Processing Stations node. 2.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide • Sending output documents by e mail (Send output file by e mail option in the Output Format Setting dialog box of the workflow properties) • Sending notifications about problems to the administrator if the Recognition Server cannot handle the problem on its own.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide If you create a workflow with verification enabled, by default all users are allowed to verify pages from this workflow, which means that if there are some pages queued for verification, any user who runs a Verification Station will receive a page from the workflow. However, it is possible to restrict the verification permissions for a workflow, so that only a limited number of users (so called “Verifiers”) may verify pages from this workflow.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide folders from there. If connection is successful, you will see the “Connected” message below the button, and the names of the document libraries will appear in the Select document library list. 4. Select the document library from the list. If you wish to change the content type, or specify the metadata values that should be exported as document properties, click the Settings… button.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide In this node, you can add, remove, activate, swap, and select licenses. An unlimited number of licenses can be added in this node. Licenses from a hardware key are added to the node automatically when you plug the dongle in a USB port. Licenses with software key protection should be added by (Add New License) on the toolbar or by selecting the corresponding item on the shortcut menu.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide Connection Settings Connection protocols ABBYY Recognition Server can use the Named Pipes or TCP/IP protocol to connect to the computers where its components are installed. By default, immediately after installation the Named Pipes protocol is used. If a connection with the computer where one of the components has been installed is not established, you may not be able to register a Processing Station.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide 6. Close the Remote Administration Console component and run it again. 7. Open the Processing Station Properties dialog box for each Processing Station in the Details pane of the Processing Stations node. Make sure that the current connection status is Connected. Click OK. 8. Click the Refresh button on the toolbar of the Remote Administration Console.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide Troubleshooting The Server Manager fails to establish a connection with the Processing Station installed on a different computer • Make sure that the Server Manager and the Processing Stations services are started and run under the same user account which has all the required permissions (see Selecting a user account).
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide • If the path contains a network drive (for example, X:\ Folder), change the path to the complete path to the folder, e.g. \\Computer\...\Folder. When processing images, a “Disk space is too low” warning appears on the computer where the Server Manager is running The Server Manager stores all the files queued for processing in its temporary files folder, the default path to which is \Bin\RecognitionServer2Temp.
ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 System Administrator’s Guide Technical Support If you have any questions about how to install and use ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 to which you cannot find answers in this System Administrator's Guide, please contact the ABBYY technical support service or authorized ABBYY partners. For contact information, please refer to the Support section at www.abbyy.com or to the ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0 Help file.
