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Renew OCR license

The out-of-the-box OCR license within IA Cloud Developer expires in three months after the IA Cloud Developer release or after the default 1,000 pages limit has been reached.

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IA Cloud Developer comes with two licenses for Abbyy FRE 11 and FRE 12. By default, IA Cloud Developer uses FRE 11. In case of expiry request a new license for FRE 11 only.

To renew the OCR license, follow these steps.

1. To obtain a new license from the WorkFusion support, submit a request at WorkFusion Service Desk or contact your account executive.

2. Open License Manager (the License Manager tool installs on your computer during IA Cloud Developer installation) from C:\Program Files (x86)\ABBYY SDK\11\License Server\LicenseManager.exe.

3. Add a new license by clicking on the Activate License button.

   

4. Enter your serial number and press Next.

   

5. To activate the new license, select License > Activate.

   

6. In the License Activation Wizard select the activation method.

   

   Wait till the operation completes.

   

   

7. Open C:\IntelligentAutomationCloudDeveloper\OCR\ocr-rest-application.yml.

   1. Back up the original properties file.
   2. Comment out the Engine 11 default license using # .

   # Engine 11 configuration
   # ocr.task.engine.license.path: Licenses\SWAO-1121-0007-0182-4831-3501.ABBYY.locallicense
   # ocr.task.engine.license.password: ${sms.ocr.task.engine.license.password}
   
   # Engine 12 configuration
   ocr.task12.engine.license.path: Licenses\SWAO-1221-0007-0182-4961-7057.ABBYY.locallicense
   ocr.task12.engine.license.password: ${sms.ocr.task12.engine.license.password}
   

8. Restart the OCR group in the Components group.

9. Validate OCR via Business Process execution.