NativeOcrZone Structure

Summary

Represents a native zone rectangular area on a page containing a feature of interest to the user.

Syntax

C++/CLI

Java

Python

[SerializableAttribute()] 
public struct NativeOcrZone

public class NativeOcrZone

[SerializableAttribute()] 
public value class NativeOcrZone : public System.ValueType

class NativeOcrZone:

Remarks

Used with engine-specific zones. For more information, refer to IOcrZoneManager.GetNativeZone and IOcrZoneManager.SetNativeZone.

The NativeOcrZone structure contains all the necessary information for describing a zone. A zone is a rectangular area on an image containing a feature of interest to the user. The image data covered by each zone is handled and processed (typically recognized) separately.

Zones can be divided into two basic categories: whether a zone is to be recognized or whether it should be treated as graphic. Zones containing text information can be considered to be either of the flowing type or of a table type. This basic classification of zones helps the OCR engine handle text information correctly.

Zones are always associated with a filling method (NativeOcrZoneFillMethod) and one of the available recognition modules (NativeOcrZoneRecognitionModule). These determine which recognition algorithm will be applied to the zone during its processing.

Use the CharacterFilters property to modify the set of valid characters for recognition of the zone. Specifying the character set correctly is a recognition accuracy issue.

Other members of the zone structure specify how the checking subsystem will function for the particular zone.

Construct the zones of a page automatically using IOcrPage.AutoZone. You must call this method and finish any modification you might have to the zones before calling IOcrPage.Recognize.

Do not modify the NativeOcrZone.Id property. When adding zones, leave this value to the default of 0.

The NativeOcrZone.ZoneType property of the updating zone should be one of the following: NativeOcrZoneType.Text, NativeOcrZoneType.Table or NativeOcrZoneType.Graphics.

The preferred method of updating a zone is as illustrated in the code snippet above, first get the zone of interest, update it and set it back into the collection.

It is the developers responsibility to specify a valid recognition module-filling method pair. Otherwise any incorrectly set zone will have no recognition result.

LEADTOOLS OCR .NET also supports OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) in all the engines. For more information, refer to Using OMR in LEADTOOLS .NET OCR.

Example

using Leadtools; 
using Leadtools.Codecs; 
using Leadtools.Ocr; 
using Leadtools.Forms.Common; 
using Leadtools.Document.Writer; 
using Leadtools.WinForms; 
using Leadtools.Drawing; 
using Leadtools.ImageProcessing; 
using Leadtools.ImageProcessing.Color; 
 
public void OcrAutoZoneExample() 
{ 
   // Create an image with some text in it 
   RasterImage image = new RasterImage(RasterMemoryFlags.Conventional, 320, 200, 24, RasterByteOrder.Bgr, RasterViewPerspective.TopLeft, null, IntPtr.Zero, 0); 
   Rectangle imageRect = new Rectangle(0, 0, image.ImageWidth, image.ImageHeight); 
 
   IntPtr hdc = RasterImagePainter.CreateLeadDC(image); 
   using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromHdc(hdc)) 
   { 
      g.SmoothingMode = System.Drawing.Drawing2D.SmoothingMode.HighQuality; 
      g.FillRectangle(Brushes.White, imageRect); 
 
      using (Font f = new Font("Arial", 20, FontStyle.Regular)) 
         g.DrawString("Normal line", f, Brushes.Black, 0, 0); 
 
      using (Font f = new Font("Courier New", 20, FontStyle.Regular)) 
         g.DrawString("Monospaced line", f, Brushes.Black, 0, 80); 
   } 
 
   RasterImagePainter.DeleteLeadDC(hdc); 
 
   string zonesFileName = Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, "MyZones.xml"); 
 
   // Create an instance of the engine 
   using (IOcrEngine ocrEngine = OcrEngineManager.CreateEngine(OcrEngineType.LEAD)) 
   { 
      // Start the engine using default parameters 
      ocrEngine.Startup(null, null, null, LEAD_VARS.OcrLEADRuntimeDir); 
 
      // Create an OCR page 
      using (IOcrPage ocrPage = ocrEngine.CreatePage(image, OcrImageSharingMode.AutoDispose)) 
      { 
         // Show the zones, there should be no zones yet 
         ShowZones("Right after the page was created", ocrPage); 
 
         // Perform default AutoZoning on the page 
         ocrPage.AutoZone(null); 
 
         // Show the zones, there should be two zones, one for each line 
         ShowZones("AutoZone with default parameters", ocrPage); 
 
         // Update the first zone manually 
         OcrZone ocrZone = ocrPage.Zones[0]; 
         ocrZone.ZoneType = OcrZoneType.Text; 
         ocrPage.Zones[0] = ocrZone; 
 
         // Show the zones 
         ShowZones("After updating the type of the first zone", ocrPage); 
 
         // Save the zones to a file and then clear them 
         ocrPage.SaveZones(zonesFileName); 
         ocrPage.Zones.Clear(); 
 
         // Show the zones, there should be no zones since we just cleared them 
         ShowZones("After calling save and clear", ocrPage); 
 
         // Re-load the zones 
         ocrPage.LoadZones(zonesFileName); 
         ShowZones("After re-loading the zones", ocrPage); 
      } 
 
      // Shutdown the engine 
      // Note: calling Dispose will also automatically shutdown the engine if it has been started 
      ocrEngine.Shutdown(); 
   } 
} 
 
private void ShowZones(string message, IOcrPage ocrPage) 
{ 
   Console.WriteLine("Zones after {0}:", message); 
   foreach (OcrZone ocrZone in ocrPage.Zones) 
   { 
      int index = ocrPage.Zones.IndexOf(ocrZone); 
      Console.WriteLine("Zone index: {0}", index); 
      Console.WriteLine("  Id                  {0}", ocrZone.Id); 
      Console.WriteLine("  Bounds              {0}", ocrZone.Bounds); 
      Console.WriteLine("  ZoneType            {0}", ocrZone.ZoneType); 
      Console.WriteLine("  CharacterFilters:   {0}", ocrZone.CharacterFilters); 
      Console.WriteLine("----------------------------------"); 
   } 
 
   Console.WriteLine("Hit enter to continue"); 
   //Console.ReadLine(); 
} 
 
static class LEAD_VARS 
{ 
   public const string ImagesDir = @"C:\LEADTOOLS22\Resources\Images"; 
   public const string OcrLEADRuntimeDir = @"C:\LEADTOOLS22\Bin\Common\OcrLEADRuntime"; 
}