In my last post, we discussed the benefits of using LEADTOOLS Document SDK and the Forms Recognition Technology to vastly improve productivity in a paperless office receiving hundreds of different forms and invoices. This will be a continuation of that to showcase not only how to automatically recognize which type of filled form is currently being processed, but to also extract the information and data on said filled forms
To do this, we mainly must take one more step forward in looking at the fields. Fields are locations set when creating a master form that our processing engine will look for data in those areas. There are many types of fields, such as Text, Image, Table, OMR, and Barcode. What our processing engine does is loading and processing all the fields for the user to then write how they want that information distributed. It is often a good practice to check to see what type of field was processed and then write code for that type accordingly.