Kofax Clarity recognition engine

You can use this recognition engine for both page recognition and zone recognition.

You require a separate license to use this recognition engine.

Communication between the Kofax Clarity recognition profile and its server use port 443. This port must be open in your Firewall settings.

If you perform recognition using Kofax Clarity during testing in Transformation Designer or at runtime, one volume license per page is consumed each time an internet connection is made. If you want to avoid consuming too many runtime licenses during project configuration and testing, Kofax recommends that you test Kofax Clarity on selected images only, and that you perform OCR on other test images or training images using another recognition engine.

During configuration, the best practice is to run this recognition engine a few times without a fallback recognition engine configured. This ensures that everything is working as expected and that the proper internet access if available.

The benefits of using either page recognition or zone recognition are possible because Kofax Clarity uses the scalability of cloud computing to perform Optical character recognition over an internet connection. This cloud architecture has the additional benefit of moving OCR processing online and away from the Kofax TotalAgility Servers. All transmitted data is encrypted over an HTTPS connection.

The cloud services used by Kofax Clarity have been reviewed by an independent Qualified Security Assessor and are determined to be PCI DSS 3.2 compliant. Therefore you can rely on the cloud service provider's compliance for the infrastructure and platform components it provides.

Page recognition

Kofax Clarity page recognition is used when a Kofax Clarity page profile is configured.

When the Recognition mode is set to Text mode, this recognition engine specializes in recognizing text at any location on an image. For example, photographs of people or places, street signs, ID cards, or business cards. Because these images can be distorted, have perspective issues, or contain glare from reflected light, Kofax Clarity can overcome these issues to provide successful OCR results.

You can also use this recognition engine to recognize classic paper documents and forms when the Recognition mode is set to Document mode.

Zone recognition

Kofax Clarity zone recognition is used when a Kofax Clarity zone profile is configured. This zone profile is available in the Advanced Zone Locator only.

Zone recognition from Kofax Clarity uses clean zone snippets from the Advanced Zone Locator, which is designed for fixed form documents only.

It is not possible to use the Kofax Clarity zone profile as the default recognition profile, as a field reread profile, nor as input for a mixed print profile.

To optimize zone recognition, one or more pages with individual zones are bundled together and sent to Kofax Clarity. A volume license is consumed for each page in the bundle.