Hi Andre, I am new here, though have years of experience with supporting and developing a commercial Enterprise Content Management system. I am installing Mayan now, so I apologize if I am missing something that will become obvious upon use, but I am curious about the need for OCR for the majority of documents. Would the inclusion of Document Type appropriate (manually entered) Metadata allow you to find the information you are searching for?
OCR is a wonderful thing and something that I enjoy working with, though there can be challenges in getting the OCR'ed data (accurately) and then being able to use that information in a meaningful manner. Generally, unless I need to have that information and can consistently assign (some of the discreet) data to the Metadata - and I can afford the processing time/expense - manual indexing or reading barcodes (a whole other discussion! :-) ) meets 90+% of my needs. Perhaps once I start playing my question will answer itself, and I certainly don't mean any offense, but I am interested in how people are using the OCR'ed information (and related, has it been found to be accurate in the vast majority - 95+% - of the time). Thanks! dave On Friday, April 14, 2017 at 11:37:31 AM UTC-5, andre wrote: > > Hi, > > I just discovered Mayan, installed the most recent version (on bare metal, > not docker) and really like it. I have been using Alfresco for my personal > and home office documents so far, and it seems Mayan could replace it > easily for my needs. > > But there's one thing I I'm not sure I got right: Will I only find content > of documents which have been OCRed in Mayan? Over the years I scanned some > thousand docs, some of them with a manually adjusted OCR recognition > (complex tables and stuff). All of my PDFs have been OCRed over the years, > and I guess it would take Mayan / tesseract weeks to do this work - I > wouldn't want that. > > How can I activate search for these existing contents? Also, what about > (for example) Word or Powerpoint documents, is there a way to search within > them? > > thank you! > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mayan EDMS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
