Image to Text tool

Anasalter

Hi Community,

Data-->emp1-->expense_report1-->bill1

                                                         bill2

                                                         bill3

                          expense_report2-->bill34

                                                          23
            emp2-->expensereport_344
                          expensereport_454
            emp3-->expensereport_345

above  is the structure how bills and invoices are present in a folder for each employees.
i have to extract text from the images, pdf  and then compare all bills for a particular employees with each other to find duplicacy.

problem i am facing is when i am using image input and image to text tool it is giving the some memory error and unable to extract the text.(there are around 2800 bills)

what approach should i use to make this workflow?

OllieClarke

Hi @Anasalter 

Are you currently loading all 2800 files through the tool in one go? If so can you try batching them, so you're only working on one employee at a time?
If you take your current workflow, and use a control parameter to affect your directory input (which I'm assuming is there), that would let you make a batch macro which should limit the amount of memory being used by the tool in one go.

There's more info on batch macros here: https://knowledge.alteryx.com/index/s/article/Getting-Started-with-Batch-Macros-1583461640393

Hope that helps,

Ollie