Decision making to select particular script after scrapping data using OCR technology

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Hi All,

I have multiple invoices (with different data structures), i have scrapped the data using OCR technology and made different scripts for each data structure.

Since the data is retrieved using ocr i am unable to make decision on which scripts to execute for further data manipulation. kindly advise

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Hi

Is there any information on the invoice that is different like Customer or Account number? Is there a word in the filename or data that is different between each version of the invoice? There’s usually a word or string of words that can be used to make a decision on which script to use.

If there is not anything obvious like a word, then you need to decipher which format the data is in as your decision maker. To do so, you would need to check the position of a word or pattern that you are looking at to extract the data. In this case, you might consider using a Regex pattern. There is info online about how to set up your Regex, or provide an example text and maybe someone can help. The syntax would something like System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.IsMatch(text,pattern)

Regards.