Integration of Vidado Read API into Kofax Transformation

   
Vidado Read API, https://api.vidado.ai/portal/, is an extremely powerful OCR engine. Vidado confidently claims that it reads better than a human. You can test it right now online at https://vidado.ai/try-it-out/!
This guide will show you how to integrate Vidado Read API into the Advanzed Zone Locator in Kofax Transformation.

Compatible with all versions of

• Kofax Total Agility
• Kofax Transformation Modules in Kofax Capture
• Kofax RPA (since 10.3)
• Kofax Mobile Capture
• Kofax RTTS
• Kofax Transformation Toolkit

Vidado Read API Features

• Cloud-based OCR engine. Vidado does not keep any images or results after processing.
• Vidado READ API supports zones and not pages - each image must be smaller than 100,000 pixels, which is 1.1 inch² or 7.1 cm² at 300 dpi. The script will dynamically shrink images that are larger than 100,000 pixels.
• The engine is a Deep Neural Network trained on 1,000,000,000 hand-checked field samples in English.
  • It was trained to read words on forms and hence it ignores labels. In the example below "christina" is found and "witness signature" is ignored
    
• Vidado claims over 90% field level accuracy or better than a human.
  • Vidado only returns results in lower case. It does not return accents.
  • You can expect excellent results on Latin languages without accents - eg Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Swahili, Indonesian.
• It works on black&white, greyscale and color images.
• Vidado supports jpeg, jpg, gif, png. The script uses png because it supports B&W, grey and color losslessly
• Only horizontal text can be read, not vertical. There is no deskew, but the engine was trained on samples with ±5° skew.
• no image cleanup at all is required - smudges, lines, boxes, shadings are all ignored.
• Vidado has a pre-trained, cloud solution, it is constantly being improved.
• The trial license is limited to 1 call per second.

Configuration steps

1. Register for an API key at https://api.vidado.ai/portal/. This will give you a trial key for two weeks allowing for 1000 images/day and 1 image/second.
2. Create or Open a Kofax Transformation Project in Project Builder or Transformation Designer.
3. Add the script to the class where your Advanced Zone Locator is.
   Note you can have multiple Advanced Zone Locators in your class. The script will run on them all.
4. In the Script Editor on the Menu Edit/References.. add a Reference to Kofax Cascade Advanced Zone Locator 4.0
5. In the Script Editor on the Menu Edit/References.. add a Reference to Microsoft XML, 6.0
6. Add your Vidado API Key to the Project's Script Variables, with a script variable named VidadoAPIKey
7. Create a new Zone OMR profile called Vidado in Project Settings/Recognition/Zone Profile.../OMR
   Tip! Set your Vidado Profile to be the default profile, and it will be autoselected for new OMR Zones.
8. Inside your Advanced Zone Locator, select the Vidado Profile for each zone you want to send to Vidado
9. IMPORTANT Make sure you classify your documents BEFORE testing the Advanced Zone Locator.
10. Press "Test" on your Advanced Zone Locator to see Vidado's magic. You cannot test Vidado inside the Zone settings, but you can inside the locator You do not need any image cleanup profiles

Vidado License Tiers

Tier	Cost/month	Quota/day	Calls/second
Developer	Free	1,000	1
Basic	$499	35,000	3
Scale	$999	75,000	6
Enterprise	varies	custom	20