OCR iFilter and SP2007
Hi,
Since the TIFF iFilter with OCR capabilities in SharePoint 2007 is not available, how could we proceed to achieve the same result?
I've heard that the reason was related to the performance but even then, it does not remove the need of this feature. More and more, organizations proceed to digitalization of incoming mail items to reduce/eliminate paper-pased processes. It sounds awful to me that an ECM platform such as SP/MOSS 2007 do not provide this feature, especially considering that it was available in SP 2003.
Apart from writing our own iFilter, anyone has an idea on how we can achieve OCR recognition of TIF file in a SharePoint 2007 environment?
Thanks in advance,
Alain L.
The filters for the Office 2007 file formats shipped in Office SharePoint Server and in the Office 2007 client suites. Moving forward, we’re planning to create a “filter pack,” which will include these as well as other filters for other applications and formats (including TIFF). The release plan for the filter pack has not been finalized, but we will make an announcement on either or both the SharePoint Team Blog and the IFilter Team Blog at the appropriate time.
please let me know as well and in addition to TIFF I would like to know about the Microsoft MDI format as well. This can not be a performance issue becaus the Microsoft Document Imaging program does the ocr and saves the data into the metadata fields. I do not know, why gathering of the meta data of MDI and TIF files was discontinued? Can not be a performance issue.
Rolf
The functionality is already available as long as you have MODI installed (either version 11.0 => Office 2003 or version 12.0 => Office 2007). I've successfully been able to get TIF and MDI indexing to work in both the WSS 3.0 betas as well as WSS 3.0 Final Releases in both the free framework installation as well as the full blown MOSS 2007 installation. If this is still a current issue for you please holler and post here, else if this is a dead thread just disregard. The necessary tweaking is pretty interesting as its very much buried especially in the WSS 3.0 release (non MOSS installations).
