Function GetRecognizedCharacters() As IOcrPageCharacters

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Dim instance As IOcrPage Dim value As IOcrPageCharacters   value = instance.GetRecognizedCharacters()

IOcrPageCharacters GetRecognizedCharacters()

IOcrPageCharacters^ GetRecognizedCharacters(); 

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You must call this method after the IOcrPage has been recognized with the IOcrPage.Recognize or RecognizeText method. i.e., if the value of the IsRecognized property of this page is false, then calling this method will throw an exception.

You can use the GetRecognizedCharacters to examine the recognized character data. This data contain information about the character codes, their confidence, guess codes, location and position in the page as well as font information. For more information, refer to OcrCharacter.

The GetRecognizedCharacters method returns an instance of IOcrPageCharacters, this instance is a collection of IOcrZoneCharacters. The IOcrZoneCharacters.ZoneIndex property contains the zero-based index of the zone. You can get the zone information by using the same index as the Zones property of this IOcrPage.

If you wish to modify and the apply recognition data back to the page, Use SetRecognizedCharacters.

Use IOcrZoneCharacters.GetWords to get the recognized words of a zone.

Notes on spaces: The LEADTOOLS Plus and Advantage OCR engines will not return any space characters when using the GetRecognizedCharacters method.

The LEADTOOLS Professional OCR engine will not return space characters if the value of the boolean Recognition.SpaceIsValidCharacter setting value is false (the default). If you absolutely require space characters in the recognition results when using the LEADTOOLS Professional Engine, then set the value of the boolean Recognition.SpaceIsValidCharacter setting to true ( ocrEngineInstance.SettingManager.SetBooleanValue("Recognition.SpaceIsValidCharacter", true)). For more information on OCR settings, refer to IOcrSettingManager and LEADTOOLS OCR Professional Engine Settings.

The SetRecognizedCharacters method will accept space characters in the LEADTOOLS Plus and Advantage engines. However, these space characters will be used when generating the final document (PDF) and might affect the final output. Therefore, it is not recommended that you insert space characters when using the LEADTOOLS Plus and Advantage engines.

The LEADTOOLS Professional OCR engine will strip any space characters from the results passed to SetRecognizedCharacters if the value of the boolean Recognition.SpaceIsValidCharacter setting value is false (the default). If you absolutely require space characters in the recognition results when using the LEADTOOLS Professional Engine, then set the value of the boolean Recognition.SpaceIsValidCharacter setting to true before calling SetRecognizedCharacters.

If you use the GetRecognizedCharacters and SetRecognizedCharacters methods to modify the recognition result prior to saving to an output file, and you are planning on using the engine native save capability (through setting the IOcrDocumentManager.EngineFormat property and using DocumentFormat.User in the IOcrDocument.Save method), then you must change the boolean Recognition.SpaceIsValidCharacter setting to true.

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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