Document Management and ProcessingPurpose
1.2. Automates digital capture, parsing, verification, and structured archiving of form data.
1.3. Eliminates manual data entry errors, automating extraction into backend housing management systems.
1.4. Supports bulk processing, ensures compliance, and accelerates housing benefit eligibility checks and processing.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Scheduled automation to process legacy documents at set intervals.
2.3. Automates actions on detection of updated or corrected housing documentation.
2.4. Manual override to automate urgent form extraction upon request.
Platform variants
• Feature/Setting: OCR detection endpoint; configure automator to process PDF/image uploads. Example: Vision API annotate request with `type: DOCUMENT_TEXT_DETECTION`.
3.2. AWS Textract
• Feature/Setting: StartDocumentTextDetection API; automate input S3 bucket integration for batch scanned documents.
3.3. Microsoft Azure Computer Vision
• Feature/Setting: OCR Read API; endpoint `/vision/v3.2/read/analyze`, automate trigger on blob storage upload.
3.4. ABBYY FlexiCapture Cloud
• Feature/Setting: Project setup for scanned form type; automate batch processing using REST API `/processDocument`.
3.5. Tesseract OCR (Self-hosted)
• Feature/Setting: Automate command-line batch execution; configure automator to scan folders and output to CSV/JSON.
3.6. Adobe Document Services (PDF Services API)
• Feature/Setting: Automates PDF OCR via `/operation/createDocument`; set automation for new PDF files in monitored folders.
3.7. Kofax Capture
• Feature/Setting: Automate import of scanned documents with auto-classification modules.
3.8. Rossum
• Feature/Setting: API queue automation for housing forms; use `/documents/upload` for triggering extraction.
3.9. UiPath Document Understanding
• Feature/Setting: Automator to run OCR extraction activity in cloud orchestrator, configure for department housing forms.
3.10. IBM Watson Visual Recognition
• Feature/Setting: OCR training on housing forms, automate `analyze` endpoint for batch jobs.
3.11. Veryfi OCR API
• Feature/Setting: Automate HTTP POST to `/api/v7/partner/documents/` for scanned image extraction.
3.12. Docparser
• Feature/Setting: Parsing rule setup for housing templates; automate uploads to mailbox or API for processing.
3.13. Nanonets
• Feature/Setting: Automator for Housing Form Model; automate input images via `/OCR/Model/{modelId}/LabelUrls/`.
3.14. Hypatos
• Feature/Setting: API `/api/ocr` automates bulk document scanning workflows.
3.15. Google Drive Apps Script
• Feature/Setting: Triggers on file changes to automate Google Vision OCR script invocation.
3.16. Zapier (with OCR integrations)
• Feature/Setting: Automates "New File" trigger in Google Drive/Dropbox to OCR extraction with third-party OCR modules.
3.17. PDF.co
• Feature/Setting: Automator for PDF OCR using `/pdf/convert/to/text`; automates trigger on upload event.
3.18. Cloudmersive OCR API
• Feature/Setting: Automate `/ocr/image/toText` for scanned document input.
3.19. Soda PDF
• Feature/Setting: Workflow automation for ‘convert scanned PDF to Excel’ triggered on shared folder uploads.
3.20. OneDrive Power Automate
• Feature/Setting: Trigger flows on new scans added to cloud storage to call integrated OCR service of choice.
Benefits
4.2. Automates turnaround time for resident requests, enabling faster housing decisions.
4.3. Increases accuracy of extracted data, automating error and compliance checks.
4.4. Automates digital record creation, providing secure document traceability and audit.
4.5. Supports scalability for seasonal or bulk housing application processing with automation.
4.6. Automates multi-language OCR support for wider resident inclusivity.