Understand OCR field
Note:
AI calls are consumed each time an AI model runs within your Creator application. For the OCR field:
- When the source field is filled with an input value, an AI call is triggered to generate the output in the OCR field. This AI call is deducted from the AI calls limit available in your Creator plan.
- If the source field is modified, either before or after the output is generated, the model runs again using the updated input. This triggers an additional AI call, which is also counted against your AI calls limit.
You can monitor your remaining AI calls limit from the Billing section.
The OCR field enables you to perform optical character recognition on an image. In other words, it extracts text from the images stored in an image field. For example, you can use the OCR field to extract the text from the images of invoices, business cards, and contracts used in real estate dealings.
As this field's value is detected, it will appear disabled on your forms, which indicates to your users that they cannot enter an input for it.
Features
Source field
The source of the OCR field is an image field from which you want to extract text. Once added, the OCR field's source cannot be changed.
- Currently the OCR field can recognize the English text from an image
- OCR can be performed on JPG, JPEG, and PNG images
- OCR will be performed on images that are stored in Creator. In other words, OCR won't be performed for the records where the source image field stores the URL of a public image.
Other field properties
- Customize the field name and field link name of this field
- Show this field only to the app’s admin (and hide it from other users)
- Set this field’s size
- Set this field's height
- Describe this field using a tooltip or a help text