Compare OCR for Work.AI and Work.AI Developer

The document describes the differences between OCR for Work.AI Developer (Developer) and the Work.AI platform.

Licensing

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

Architecture

	Developer	Work.AI
Scaling	-	+
Process images	Synchronous, not parallel	Asynchronous
Data storage	In-memory	Database
Queue	In-memory Least Recently Used	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)	+	+ (might require a license update)