Configuring OCR

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is a technology used to convert different types of documents, such as scanned paper documents, PDF files or numeric photos, into modifiable and searchable files. An OCR software is able to recognize letters included in images, and to build entire words or sentences with these letters.

Akuiteo integrates an OCR feature to simplify the process of adding expenses to an expense report from the Web Portal and the Akuiteo Mobile application. When a receipt is photographed, the characters are automatically recognized and are then added in the expense's relevant fields.

OCR is configured from the Administration console, from the Configuration > OCR menu.

Field	Description
OCR enabled	Check this box to globally enable OCR.
Mindee enabled	Check this box to enable the Mindee OCR on the Web Portal and the Akuiteo Mobile application.
Mindee rest url	Specify the URL to connect to the web service, provided by Akuiteo.
Mindee Token	Fill in the token provided by Akuiteo to access the web service.
Akuiteo user	Fill in the Akuiteo login to connect to the web service. This user is used to differentiate expenses generated with OCR from the ones manually added by employees. When an expense is generated with OCR, the Akuiteo user is specified in the expense's history.
Akuiteo password	Fill in the password associated with the Akuiteo login.