Steps to Generate a Master Form and save it to a Master Repository.

Attributes:

1. Create and Initialize the Form Recognition Engine using the Forms Recognition Engine.

   FormRecognitionEngine RecognitionEngine = new FormRecognitionEngine();

2. Create and add the desired Object managers using the RecognitionObjectsManager.

   RasterCodecs.Startup(); 
       RasterCodecs FormsCodec = new RasterCodecs(); 
       DocumentWriter docWriter = null; 
       string ocrInstallationDirectory = ""; //use default installation 
       IOcrEngine FormsOcrEngine; 
       FormsOcrEngine = OcrEngineManager.CreateEngine(OcrEngineType.LEAD); 
       FormsOcrEngine.Startup(FormsCodec, docWriter, System.IO.Path.GetTempPath(), ocrInstallationDirectory); 
       OcrObjectsManager ocrObjectManager = new OcrObjectsManager(FormsOcrEngine); 
       RecognitionEngine.ObjectsManagers.Add(ocrObjectManager); 

3. Create the Master Form (or several) attributes using the CreateMasterForm.

   FormRecognitionAttributes attributes; 
       attributes = RecognitionEngine.CreateMasterForm(name, Guid.Empty, null); 

4. Add pages to the Master Form using the AddMasterFormPage Method.

   for(int i = 1; i<= image.PageCount; i++)  
       {  
        image.Page = i; 
        AddPageToMasterForm(image, attributes);  
       } 

5. Close the Master Form using the CloseMasterForm Method.

   RecognitionEngine.CloseMasterForm(attributes);

Processing Fields:

1. Create the Form Processing Engine using the Class.

   FormProcessingEngine ProcessingEngine = new FormProcessingEngine();

2. Initialize the Form Processing Engine with the OCR engine, Barcode engine, or both engines.

   IOcrEngine FormsOcrEngine; 
       FormsOcrEngine = OcrEngineManager.CreateEngine(OcrEngineType.LEAD); 
       FormsOcrEngine.Startup(null, null, null, @"C:\LEADTOOLS21\Bin\Common\OcrLEADRuntime"); 
       ProcessingEngine.OcrEngine = FormsOcrEngine; 
       BarcodeEngine FormsBarcodeEngine = new BarcodeEngine(); 
       ProcessingEngine.BarcodeEngine = FormsBarcodeEngine; 

3. Create the Form Fields list.

   List<FormField> fields;

4. Add your form fields to the lists.

   TextFormField text = new TextFormField(); 
       text.Name = name; 
       text.Bounds = new LeadRect(100, 500, 50, 75); 
       fields.Add(text); 
       OmrFormField omr = new OmrFormField(); 
       omr.Name = name; 
       omr.Bounds = new LeadRect(200, 300, 25, 25); 
       fields.Add(omr); 
       ImageFormField image = new ImageFormField(); 
       image.Name = name; 
       image.Bounds = new LeadRect(100, 1000, 300, 50); ; 
       fields.Add(image); 
       BarcodeFormField barcode = new BarcodeFormField(); 
       barcode.Name = name; 
       barcode.Bounds = new LeadRect(700, 100, 300, 100); 
       fields.Add(barcode); 

5. Create a page and add the fields to it.

   FormPage page = new FormPage(image.Page, image.XResolution, image.YResolution); 
       page.AddRange(fields); 

6. Add pages to the processing engine.

   ProcessingEngine.Pages.Add(formPage);

Save Master Form to disk repository:

1. Create a Repository using the Leadtools.Forms.Auto.DiskMasterFormsRepository Class.

   DiskMasterFormsRepository repository; 
       repository = new DiskMasterFormsRepository(codecs, @"C:\Forms\FormsDemo\OCR_Test"); 

2. Save the Master Form to the repository at the root category.

   repository.RootCategory.AddMasterForm(attributes, ProcessingEngine.Pages, image);