Introduction to Einstein OCR

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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