Compare OCR for Work.AI and Work.AI Developer

The document describes the differences between OCR for Windows and Linux, Work.AI Developer (Developer) and Work.AI.

Licensing

	Developer	Work.AI
License type	Trial license or paid runtime license	Runtime license
License activation	Not required (only for trial license type)	Required instruction

Architecture

	Developer	Work.AI
Scaling	-	+
Process images	Synchronous, not parallel	Asynchronous
Data storage	In-memory	DB
Queue	In-memory LRU	RabbitMQ

Rest API

	Developer	Work.AI
/submitImage	+	+
/submitPattern	+	+
/processImage	+	+
/processDocument	+	+
/getTaskStatus	+	+
/download	+	+
/cleanup	+	+
/summary	-	+
/cancelTasks	-	+
/trainPattern	+	+
/activeLicense	+	+
/listLicenses	+	+
/prepareLicense	-	+
/activateLicense	-	+

OCR recognition capability

	Developer (Windows)	Work.AI (Windows)	Work.AI (Linux)
Optical mark recognition (OMR, for example, checkboxes and radio buttons)	+ (a new license is required)	+	-
Handprint recognition (ICR)	-	-	-
Barcodes recognition	+ (a new license is required)	+	+ (may require a license update)