Improvement in properly recognizing PDF text no matter its rotation

[EveSt]

I would like to share my idea that would be definitely useful for fast automation of the process with reading and correctly recognizing the text from PDF input. I wrote about that, hoping somebody has already thought about that here.

The idea is the tools "PDF Input" and "Image to Text" from "Text Mining" category to be improved, so as the text from PDF document to be read properly, no matter the text position on each page. 

It could be also considered the performance of the combined tools of "PDF Input" and "Image to Text" to be improved as they work slower than the customized tool PDF Input does.

The idea also can be expanded to an entirely new tool that works out all the actions, needed for correctly reading of a PDF document without manual intervention.

[CristonS]

hi @EveSt, Thank you for submitting your feedback to the Alteryx Designer Ideas board! We appreciate all the feedback we get and are working to review and respond to all ideas that have met the criteria to be brought to our product team. If you haven’t yet, please be sure to review our updated Submission Guidelines. 

[sprakasam]

Hi @EveSt - Thank you for taking the time and submitting ideas. The 21.2 release of the Alteryx Intelligence Suite will contain a new tool called Image Processing under the new Computer Vision tool category which will contain the OCR capabilities going forward. This tools allows you to align/rotate, balance the brightness, etc.