Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Windchill PLM

[ajay252508]

Version: Windchill 12.1

Use Case: One of my client is looking to use Windchill search for scanned documents. It looks like Windchill Search cannot do optical character recognition (OCR).

Description:

Does anyone has experience with using a third party OCR with Windchill? TIA

[VladimirN]

Article - "Does Windchill support Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of text in document images?": https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS364005 

[ajay252508]

Thank you for the link, I know that OCR is not supported by Windchill search. Is there a workaround to get OCR working with Windchill? I saw Amazon has a product called Textract, has anyone used it with Windchill? TIA. 

[HelesicPetr]

Hi @ajay252508 

I can imagine, that if you create own search wizard, and you find some java OCR library then you can write a code to use the OCR utility in Windchill. 

PetrH

[anursingh]

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