Question
What languages are supported by the OCR engines in FTK?
Answer
As of FTK 5.6.3 we support OCR for the following languages:
Tesseract Engine:
- Dutch
- English
- German
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Spanish
LeadToolsAdvantage Engine:
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese Simplified
- Chinese Traditional
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
Procedure
The OCR engines will not automatically identify the language in the original document/image, so you must specify the desired language by following the steps below:
- Open Processing/Refinement Options
- Check "Optical Character Recognition"
- Click "OCR Options"
- Under Engine select the desired engine
- Under Languages select the desired language
- Click OK and continue with your processing
Notes
- Only one language may be used for any given OCR job. That language setting will apply to the full contents of all documents in that job.
- The LeadToolsAdvantage engine requires an additional license. Inquiries to obtain this license should be directed to our Sales Department at sales@exterro.com or Contact us.