/Auto-OCR-to-CMS

An incomplete idea originaly scratched together to turn paper mail & customer Forms in to tangible,s earchable customer data saved in a CMS using a blend of OCR software tied together with PHP

Primary LanguagePHP

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MailHandler

This is the process & processor responsible for turning PDF scanned images of USPS incomming mail in to searchable resources attached to customer profiles within the CRM. Amungst other things.

Dependencies

  • Cuniform
  • ImageMagick
  • GhostScript
  • Linux

Mailpiece PROCESS

  1. Recieve Mailpiece

  2. Scan Mailpiece

    • Single PDF File output
    • Multi-Page PDF including Envelope & Content
    • PDF File saved to 'Incomming Mail' folder

  3. [CRON] Import New Mail

    • Scripted Event runs against all available files in Incomming Mail folder at once.
    • MD5 Hash of PDF File generated
    • Folder in Mail Storage location created using MD5 Hash as Folder Name
    • PDF File copied to Storage Folder
    • New Mailpiece added to ProcessQueue

  4. PROCESS MailPiece

    • Scripted event runs against one Mailpiece in the ProcessQueue at a time.
    1. Convert PDF -> JPEG convert -density 300 [IMAGEMAGICK] convert -density 300 -depth 8 -quality 85 trf_with_check.pdf trf_with_check.pdf.jpg [GHOSTSCRIPT] gs -SDEVICE=tiffg4 -r300x300 -sOutputFile="trf_with_check-%04d.tiff" -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -- "trf_with_check.pdf"