Overloads Public Function CompareForm( _
   ByVal masterAttributes As FormRecognitionAttributes, _
   ByVal formAttributes As FormRecognitionAttributes, _
   ByVal callback As FormProgressCallback _
) As FormRecognitionResult

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Dim instance As FormRecognitionEngine Dim masterAttributes As FormRecognitionAttributes Dim formAttributes As FormRecognitionAttributes Dim callback As FormProgressCallback Dim value As FormRecognitionResult   value = instance.CompareForm(masterAttributes, formAttributes, callback)

public FormRecognitionResult CompareForm( 
   FormRecognitionAttributes masterAttributes,
   FormRecognitionAttributes formAttributes,
   FormProgressCallback callback
)

public:
FormRecognitionResult^ CompareForm( 
   FormRecognitionAttributes^ masterAttributes,
   FormRecognitionAttributes^ formAttributes,
   FormProgressCallback^ callback
) 

Parameters

masterAttributes

The Master Form attribute object.

formAttributes

The Form attribute object.

callback

Status on the progress of the comparison. Set it to null to ignore progress.

For a complete example of using form recognition and processing, refer to the FormRecognitionEngine example.

This example compares a Master Form with a Form.

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'''This method compares a Form to a Master Form using all pages. Private Function CompareForm(ByVal recognitionEngine As FormRecognitionEngine, ByVal master As FormRecognitionAttributes, ByVal form As FormRecognitionAttributes) As FormRecognitionResult Return recognitionEngine.CompareForm(master, form, Nothing) End Function

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///This method compares a Form to a Master Form using all pages. FormRecognitionResult CompareForm(FormRecognitionEngine recognitionEngine, FormRecognitionAttributes master, FormRecognitionAttributes form) { return recognitionEngine.CompareForm(master, form, null); }

If the number of pages of the Form is unknown (such as when a scanner is loaded with different forms), use the FormRecognitionEngine.ComparePage method to compare it with the first page of each Master Form. Then use the FormRecognitionEngine.GetFormProperties method to get the number of pages in the Master Form. Next, update the Form attribute object with the required pages if needed for processing.

Comparisons should be made between two attribute sets that were generated using the same Default Manager Objects. For example if the Master Form attribute object was generated using the .BarcodeManager and the Form attribute object was generated using the OcrManager, then the Form will not be recognized since the Master Form attributes do not have the text features of the Form.

In order to recognize a Form, the Form attributes must be compared with all Master Forms attributes that represent the different types of form templates. The Form type is the type of the Master Form attribute object that has generated the highest confidence value. If the highest confidence value is very low that means the Form is not one the types of the Master Forms (i.e. the type of this Form is not defined in the Master Forms set)

Target Platforms: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 family, Windows Server 2008 family, Windows Vista, Windows 7

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