dunneja/IFDT

Intelligent File Delivery Tool

Intelligent File Delivery Tool - Proof Of Concept

• This console tool was designed to OCR TIFF Files, extract a value, and save the document as a searchable PDF with the extracted value as document name.

Table of Contents

• General Info
• Technologies Used
• Features
• Screenshots
• Setup
• Usage
• Contact

General Information

• This PoC was developed for the requirements of a customer in the UK&I.
• The purpose of this PoC Tool is to enable the customer to take 3 x TIFF formatted document types (Invoice, Proof of Delivery, Bill Of Materials for example), detect a value in each document type and save the document as a searchable PDF with the extracted value as the document name.
• This PoC tool also has the function of detecting the OCR Dict / Zone value. This is then defined in the IFDT.conf file for OCR operations.

Technologies Used

• Python - version 3.10.5 - https://docs.python.org/3/

  • Modules - https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/modules.html
    • pytesseract - https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html#module-csv
    • os - https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#module-os
    • os.path - https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html
    • datetime - https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html
    • configparser - https://docs.python.org/3/library/configparser.html
    • cv2 - https://pypi.org/project/opencv-python/

• Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine

  • https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Downloads.html

Features

The tool provides the following capabilities:

• OCR of documents stored in seperate document type folders in TIFF format.
• OCR Document, extract value and save document based on extracted value.
• OCR Documents are output as searchable PDF.
• Output of logging for all functions to txt file.

Screenshots

Setup

• Setup the project from source files;

  • Download and install Python 3.10.5 from https://www.python.org/downloads/

  • Ensure Python is added to environment SYS Path.

  • Install deps from the provided requirements.txt file as per below;

    • pip3 install -r requirements.txt

  • Download and install the Tesseract OCR Engine for windows from https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Downloads.html

Usage

• Running the project from source files;

  • Ensure all Dependencies are installed.
  • Populate the conf file as per the example entry provided.
  • Ensure input documents as in the correct Input/doctype directory.
  • Run 'python ifdt.py'
  • Check Output dir for output and logs for errors.

Contact

Created by James Dunne - James.Dunne1@gmail.com