Overview

The optical character recognition (OCR) setting allows DryvIQ to extract text from images, including images in PDF files and other document types. This global setting turns OCR on and off for your DryvIQ Platform. You must enable OCR to evaluate individual files against entity types. OCR is disabled by default, so you must enable this feature if you wish to use it. 

Enabling OCR

1. Click Manage in the left menu. 
2. Click Settings.
3. Click Entity Types.
4. Enable the Optical character recognition toggle. 
   
   

Overriding the Default Setting

For content scans, OCR will be enabled or disabled for new scans automatically in the Settings step of the content scan setup based on the OCR setting. You can override the default for individual scans as desired. Enabling OCR is only valid when using templates that scan a file’s contents (File Categories, Sensitive Data Detection, and Miscellaneous templates) and may increase the scan time.