CompareForm(FormRecognitionAttributes,FormRecognitionAttributes,FormProgressCallback,PageProgressCallback) Method

Returns a FormRecognitionResult object determines how close is the specified Form to the specified Master Form.

Syntax

public FormRecognitionResult CompareForm( 
   FormRecognitionAttributes masterAttributes, 
   FormRecognitionAttributes formAttributes, 
   FormProgressCallback formCallback, 
   PageProgressCallback pageCallback 
) 

  
Public Overloads Function CompareForm( _ 
   ByVal masterAttributes As FormRecognitionAttributes, _ 
   ByVal formAttributes As FormRecognitionAttributes, _ 
   ByVal formCallback As FormProgressCallback, _ 
   ByVal pageCallback As PageProgressCallback _ 
) As FormRecognitionResult 

public FormRecognitionResult compareForm( 
   FormRecognitionAttributes masterAttributes, 
   FormRecognitionAttributes formAttributes, 
   FormProgressCallback formCallback, 
   PageProgressCallback pageCallback 
); 

public: 
FormRecognitionResult^ CompareForm(  
   FormRecognitionAttributes^ masterAttributes, 
   FormRecognitionAttributes^ formAttributes, 
   FormProgressCallback^ formCallback, 
   PageProgressCallback^ pageCallback 
)  

Parameters

The Master Form and the Form must have the same number of pages. If they do not, the result will be zero and the reason will be FormRecognitionReason.InvalidNumberOfPages. In a case that the number of pages in unKnown of the Form, such as scanner loaded with different forms, it is preferable to use ComparePage(FormRecognitionAttributes,Int32,FormRecognitionAttributes,Int32) to compare it with the first page of each Master Form then use GetFormProperties to get the number of pages of the Master Form then update your Form attributes with the required pages if needed for processing.

Comparisons should be made between two attribute sets that have been generated using the 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 (the Master Form attribute object would not have the text features of the Form object). In order to recognize a Form, the Form attribute object must be compared with all of the Master Form attribute objects representing different types of form templates. The Form's type is that Master Form attribute object that 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 Form set)

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

This example compares a Master Form with a Form.

using Leadtools; 
using Leadtools.Barcode; 
using Leadtools.Codecs; 
using Leadtools.Forms.Common; 
using Leadtools.Ocr; 
using Leadtools.Forms.Processing; 
using Leadtools.Forms.Recognition; 
using Leadtools.Forms.Recognition.Barcode; 
using Leadtools.Forms.Recognition.Ocr; 
 
///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); 
} 

Imports Leadtools 
Imports Leadtools.Barcode 
Imports Leadtools.Codecs 
Imports Leadtools.Forms.Common 
Imports Leadtools.Ocr 
Imports Leadtools.Forms.Processing 
Imports Leadtools.Forms.Recognition 
Imports Leadtools.Forms.Recognition.Barcode 
Imports Leadtools.Forms.Recognition.Ocr 
 
'''This method compares a Form to a Master Form using all pages. 
Private Function CompareForm(recognitionEngine As FormRecognitionEngine, master As FormRecognitionAttributes, form As FormRecognitionAttributes) As FormRecognitionResult 
   Return recognitionEngine.CompareForm(master, form, Nothing) 
End Function 

Target Platforms

Reference

FormRecognitionEngine Class

FormRecognitionEngine Members

Overload List