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OCR: Documents

Analyze a file containing scanned documents for the purpose of performing a sequence of actions on each document.

Step 1 - Analyze & separate the documents

The first step in using the OCR: DOCUMENTS command is to analyze and separate the documents on which the specified actions will be performed.

Select the file containing scanned documents to analyze.
Enter required options in 2 tabs:

Pages to Analyze:
- Choose whether to analyze all pages of the file or enter specific pages to analyze.
- Indicate if you wish to ignore pages containing specified words.
Document Separation:
- Choose the method for separating the scanned documents to be analyzed.
Indicate if you wish to place information about total pages/documents and current page/document into variables.

Available fields will vary based on the method for separating documents selected in step 2 above.
Instruct the wizard how to handle any errors encountered. Read more about error handling.

Step 2 - Define the actions

Upon adding the OCR: DOCUMENTS command to your wizard, you will notice that it becomes an empty "container" within the Editor Pane, waiting for you to fill it with instructions:

Enter the action(s) the wizard should take on each analyzed document.
- You can do this by dragging the required Advanced Command(s) directly into the container.

Loop-the-loop

The wizard performs the actions defined within the container by looping through each page or inner document (i.e., it will perform the complete sequence of actions on a single page/document, then move on to perform the sequence on each remaining page/document in turn).

No limits

You can use any available Advanced Command within the OCR: DOCUMENTS container (i.e., don't feel limited to using just the OCR commands!)

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Break that loop!

Under certain conditions, you may want to break and/or restart the loop created by the OCR: DOCUMENTS container. Make this happen by using the Loop: Break and/or the Loop: Restart command (usually within an If Else command).