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Installing ABBYY Recognition Server Select the Install ABBYY Recognition Server 3.0 item on the Autorun menu, or run the Setup.exe file from the installation folder. Follow the instructions of the installation wizard. All program components can be installed on the same or on different computers. Refer to the recommendations below: Server Manager orchestrates the operation of the whole system and manages processing queues. Install on the server with sufficient disk space.
Getting Started Plug in your hardware dongle in a USB slot. If you have a software license, you will be prompted to enter and activate it when you run the Remote Administration Console for the first time. If you have installed the Processing Stations on different servers, you will need to connect them to the Server manager: If the system components do not run properly, refer to the Server Log for possible error messages.
Use the Sample.tif image from the Samples subfolder to test this workflow, or scan documents on the Scanning Station and export them into the Default Workflow. (Note that the English OCR language is used by default.) While a document is being processed by Recognition Server, you can view its status in the Jobs node of the Remote Administration Console: The list of already processed jobs is shown in the Job Log.
Use the batch from the Samples\SampleImages\ScriptingBatch subfolder to test this workflow. Creating a workflow to process e-mail messages With ABBYY Recognition Server, you can set up a workflow to monitor a specific mailbox and OCR images coming in as e-mail attachments. Thus, users can send their documents to the OCR server’s e-mail address and receive recognized files in reply. 1. In the menu of the Workflows node, select the New Workflow item. 2.
Connectors to Microsoft® Search ABBYY Recognition Server provides a special connector (IFilter) that enables Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server and Windows® Desktop Search to perform full-text searches in image documents in TIFF, JPEG, PDF, and DjVu formats. Using the IFilter, the Microsoft search systems can employ ABBYY Recognition Server to capture data from image files.
Integration with Windows Desktop Search Windows Search automatically checks the specified folders and storages located on the user’s computer for new items. The contents of text files are indexed automatically by Windows Search, while the ABBYY Recognition Server IFilter is used to extract data from image files. The IFilter transfers image files to ABBYY Recognition Server installed on the Local Area Network.
