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DianaDEQ
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May 27, 2020
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Redaction Pattern to Match Bank Routing Number

  • May 27, 2020
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Hello! In theory,  the redaction pattern for Social Security numbers should also match a bank routing number, since they're both 9 digits. But I have a scanned blank check that I'm testing this with, and I get zero matches. I even edited the preferences file to add my own matching case of just a pure nine digit number, and got nothing.

 

The only other thing I cna think of is that somehow the MICR numerals are messing things up? Since they're designed to be machine readable, that doesn't make a lot of sense. But I'd appreciate any help in finding bank routing numbers in PDFs. I have several thousand of them to clean up, so I really don't want to have to do this by hand.

 

many thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

 

 

Edited!

 

I figured out that the probem is that the OCR didn't recognize the routing number as one nine digit string, but broke it into several pieces. So my real question is: is there a way to use the redaction tool to find different adjacet patterns? Or to tweak the OCR so that it can read MICR numbers as whole strings?

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Adobe Employee
gauravm7108785417141858
Adobe Employee
May 28, 2020

Hi,

For your question on tweaking OCR, As of now it is not supported that text can be read as full string, but you can try correct recognized text for correcting the recognized output.

Tools -> scan & ocr -> Recognize Text -> Correct recognize text.

 

Let me know if you face any problem in this.

 

Thanks,

Gaurav Maheshwari

 

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Test Screen Name
Legend
May 28, 2020

A regular OCR process is designed for text in books. I would be very surprised if it recognised MICR fonts as used on cheques. (UPDATE: I see it sort of manages, which is surprising, but good, up to a point, for you).

try67
Community Expert
try67Community Expert
Community Expert
May 28, 2020

That was my guess, that it's an issue with how the OCR process recognized the numbers.

Do you know how to create your own custom redaction patterns? If so, you can create one that looks for nine single digits separated by white-space characters using a Regular Expression.

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