org.imixs.archive.ocr

Class OCRService

java.lang.Object

org.imixs.archive.ocr.OCRService

public class OCRService
extends Object

The OCRService extracts the textual information from document attachments of a workitem.

The text information is stored in the $file attribute 'text'.

For PDF files with textual content the PDFBox api is used. In other cases, the method sends the content via a Rest API to the tika server for OCR processing.

For OCR processing the service expects a valid Rest API end-point defined by the Environment Parameter 'TIKA_SERVICE_ENDPONT'. If the TIKA_SERVICE_ENDPONT is not set, then the service will be skipped.

The environment parameter 'TIKA_SERVICE_MODE' must be set to 'auto' to enable the service.

See also the project: https://github.com/imixs/imixs-docker/tree/master/tika

Version:

1.1

Author:

rsoika

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static String	DEFAULT_ENCODING
static String	ENV_TIKA_OCR_MODE
static String	ENV_TIKA_SERVICE_ENDPOINT
static String	ENV_TIKA_SERVICE_MODE
static String	FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEXT
static String	PLUGIN_ERROR

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
OCRService()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	doORCProcessing(org.imixs.workflow.FileData fileData, List<String> options) This method sends the content of a document to the Tika Rest API for OCR processing.
String	doPDFTextExtraction(org.imixs.workflow.FileData fileData) This method extracts the text from the given content of an PDF file.
void	extractText(org.imixs.workflow.ItemCollection workitem, org.imixs.workflow.ItemCollection snapshot) Extracts the textual information from document attachments.
void	extractText(org.imixs.workflow.ItemCollection workitem, org.imixs.workflow.ItemCollection snapshot, String _ocrmode, List<String> options) Extracts the textual information from document attachments.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEXT

public static final String FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEXT

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Constant Field Values

DEFAULT_ENCODING

public static final String DEFAULT_ENCODING

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PLUGIN_ERROR

public static final String PLUGIN_ERROR

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Constant Field Values

ENV_TIKA_SERVICE_ENDPOINT

public static final String ENV_TIKA_SERVICE_ENDPOINT

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Constant Field Values

ENV_TIKA_SERVICE_MODE

public static final String ENV_TIKA_SERVICE_MODE

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Constant Field Values

ENV_TIKA_OCR_MODE

public static final String ENV_TIKA_OCR_MODE

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Constructor Detail

OCRService

public OCRService()

Method Detail

extractText

public void extractText(org.imixs.workflow.ItemCollection workitem,
                        org.imixs.workflow.ItemCollection snapshot)
                 throws org.imixs.workflow.exceptions.PluginException

Extracts the textual information from document attachments.

The method extracts the textual content for each new document of a given workitem. For PDF files with textual content the method calls the method 'extractTextFromPDF' using the PDFBox api. In other cases, the method sends the content via a Rest API to the tika server for OCR processing.

The result is stored into the fileData attribute 'text'

Parameters:

workitem -

Throws:

org.imixs.workflow.exceptions.PluginException

extractText

public void extractText(org.imixs.workflow.ItemCollection workitem,
                        org.imixs.workflow.ItemCollection snapshot,
                        String _ocrmode,
                        List<String> options)
                 throws org.imixs.workflow.exceptions.PluginException

Extracts the textual information from document attachments.

The method extracts the textual content for each new file attachment of a given workitem. The text information is stored in the $file attribute 'text'.

For PDF files with textual content the method calls the method 'extractTextFromPDF' using the PDFBox api. In other cases, the method sends the content via a Rest API to the tika server for OCR processing.

The method also extracts files already stored in a snapshot workitem. In this case the method tests if the $file attribute 'text' already exists.

Parameters:

workitem - - workitem with file attachments

_ocrmode - - PDF_ONLY, OCR_ONLY, MIXED

options - - optional tika header params

Throws:

org.imixs.workflow.exceptions.PluginException

doORCProcessing

public String doORCProcessing(org.imixs.workflow.FileData fileData,
                              List<String> options)
                       throws IOException

This method sends the content of a document to the Tika Rest API for OCR processing.

In case the contentType is PDF then the following tika specific header is added:

X-Tika-PDFOcrStrategy: ocr_only

Parameters:

fileData - - file content and metadata

Returns:

text content

Throws:

IOException

doPDFTextExtraction

public String doPDFTextExtraction(org.imixs.workflow.FileData fileData)

This method extracts the text from the given content of an PDF file. In case the pdf file does not contains text the pdf can be forwarded to the tika service for OCR scanning. In this case we append the header attribute X-Tika-PDFOcrStrategy=ocr_only.

Extracting text is one of the main features of the PDF box library. You can extract text using the getText() method of the PDFTextStripper class. This class extracts all the text from the given PDF document.

Parameters:

content -

Returns: