
In this session we will learn about Einstein OCR and Create/Update Leads and Contacts using Business Cards. Let’s welcome an amazing #Summer20 release gem – Einstein OCR. Now get optical character recognition (OCR) models that detect alphanumeric text in an image with Einstein OCR from a single REST API endpoint.
Join us for a interesting demo on how you can create/update leads and contacts records just by uploading business cards!
Optical Character Recognition(OCR)

What’s different, we’ve so many already?
- Salesforce owned product; release management becomes relatively easy.
- The API is modelled as such that it directly addresses some of the business-related use cases.
- Free 2000 API calls per month!
Salesforce’s AI Powered APIs

Einstein OCR
Just a new request endpoint under Vision API: https://api.einstein.ai/v2/vision/ocr

NOTE: Currently, Einstein OCR supports only English.
API Responses for different Detection Types

What are bounding box attributes?

Use cases and Possibilities
- Driver license verification via scanning photo ID
- Scanning serial numbers on products
- Scanning Invoice PDFs to create records
- Form reading
- Capture leads and Contact info from business cards
- Reading images with tabular data
- Image classification with OCR for scanning Vehicle registration plate
Limit
- Per month 2000 calls
- Apex limits the processing of high-resolution images .
- No single string of extracted words.
- Currently, Einstein OCR supports only English.
Recording
Date : Sat, AUG 01, 2020 10:00 AM EST (7:30 PM IST) Speaker : Narender Singh |
Further learning
- https://metamind.readme.io/docs/what-is-einstein-ocr
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Salesforce Apex Hours

Amit Chaudhary is Salesforce Application & System Architect and working on Salesforce Platform since 2010. He is Salesforce MVP since 2017 and have 17 Salesforce Certificates.
He is a active blogger and founder of Apex Hours.
Comment(1)
Shaguftha says:
October 12, 2020 at 10:58 amCan I use Einstein OCR for bills? Is it required to train OCR model for this?How to train OCR Model?