Purpose
Liquid UI's OCR functionality greatly reduces error-prone manual data entries in the SAP. The OCR feature enables you to capture information from paper documents, e-mails, images, and other sources, and quickly transfer the data to the appropriate SAP fields for further processing. This feature will not only reduce manual keying but also speed up business processes, and improve data quality.
Liquid UI for Android supports the OCR functionality using a built-in camera on any Input Field. Long-press on any Input Field inside our App will show the OCR option with other text editing options. Our OCR algorithm recognizes both printed and written text characters in the image.
At Liquid UI, we understand that not all the image/text sizes are the same for scanning the required data, so a rectangular blue line box appears that allows you to change the scan area, thus helping you in capturing only the required text in the image. Furthermore, our OCR algorithm remembers the box size changes and will retain it when next time the user clicks on the same Input Field. Also, the user gets an option to edit the captured text or populate it as-is in the Input Field. Thus, eliminating manual keying and speeding up your SAP business process.
User Interface
In this article, you will learn how to use the OCR feature in the Liquid UI for Android App. Over here, we will go through how to activate the OCR, scan the vehicle license number on the number plate, and display it on the required Input Field in the PRMD transaction.
- To navigate to PRMD (Maintain HR master data) transaction in your Liquid UI for Android App, enter /nPRMD in the tcode field, and click Return.
- Place the cursor on the Personnel No. Input Field and then click F4 to view its possible entries. You will then view the Restrict Value Range screen for the values.
- Place the cursor on the Last name Input Field and click the continue button. You will be able to view the possible entries for the Personnel no. Input Field.
- Select the user name and click the Continue button. Then the Personnel number of the selected user is displayed on the Input Field as shown below:
- Select the Travel Privileges option from the travel expenses tab. Then, click the Create button on the toolbar. Then you are navigated to the Create Travel Privileges screen.
- Long-press on the License Plate Number Input Field to view its available options. Select the OCR option for scanning the vehicle license number.
- Then your device’s built-in camera is activated. You can adjust the scanning area to the required level by changing the dimensions of the blue rectangular box that appear on the screen, as shown below:
Note: Liquid UI for Android remembers the box size changes and will retain them during the next scanning process on the same Input Field.
- If you rotate your device, the app will recognize the device is in landscape mode and automatically rotate the rectangular box (scan area) by 90 degrees to suit your preference. After adjusting the scanning area, long-press anywhere on the screen to scan the selected text.
Note: You need to check whether the screen rotation is set to auto-rotate in your device settings.
- Our App will recognize text inside the selected area from the image and the recognized text appears on the screen with four options, as shown below:
- Scan: This button will restart the scanning process.
- Done: This button will populate the scanned value into the Input Field.
- Tab: This button will execute the Tab function, after populating the scanned value into the Input Field, mimicking SAP GUI functionality.
- Enter: This button will execute the Enter function, after populating the scanned value into the Input Field, mimicking SAP GUI functionality.
- Click Done to display the scanned vehicle license plate number in the Input Field, as shown below:
