The OCR field enables you to perform optical character recognition on an image. In other words, it extracts text from the images stored in an image field. For example, you can use the OCR field to extract the text from the images of invoices, business cards, and contracts used in real estate dealings.
As this field's value is detected, it will appear disabled on your forms, which indicates to your users that they cannot enter an input for it.
Features
Source field
The source of the OCR field is an image field from which you want to extract text. Once added, the OCR field's source cannot be changed.
- Currently the OCR field can recognize the English text from an image or PDF.
- OCR can be performed on JPG, JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIF, TIFF, WEBP images and PDF.
- OCR will be performed on images that are stored in Creator. In other words, OCR won't be performed for the records where the source image field stores the URL of a public image.
Other field properties
- Customize the field name and field link name of this field
- Show this field only to the app’s admin (and hide it from other users)
- Set this field’s size
- Set this field's height
- Describe this field using a tooltip or a help text
