Format Property

Summary

Gets the document format type associated with this options class.

Syntax

Objective-C

C++/CLI

Java

Python

public override DocumentFormat Format { get; }

@property (nonatomic, assign, readonly) LTDocumentFormat format

@Override public DocumentFormat getFormat()

public: 
property DocumentFormat Format { 
   DocumentFormat get() override; 
}

Format # get  (AltoXmlDocumentOptions)

Property Value

This property will always return DocumentFormat.AltoXml.

Remarks

This property is required internally by LEADTOOLS.

Example

using Leadtools.Document.Writer; 
using Leadtools; 
using Leadtools.Codecs; 
using Leadtools.Ocr; 
 
 
public void AltoXmlDocumentOptionsExample() 
{ 
   var inputFileName = Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, "ocr2.tif"); 
   var outputFileName = Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, "out_Example.xml"); 
 
   // Setup LEADTOOLS OCR engine 
   using (var ocrEngine = OcrEngineManager.CreateEngine(OcrEngineType.LEAD)) 
   { 
      ocrEngine.Startup(null, null, null, LEAD_VARS.OcrLEADRuntimeDir); 
 
      // Get the DocumentWriter instance 
      var docWriter = new DocumentWriter(); 
      // Change the ALTO XML options 
      var altoXmlOptions = docWriter.GetOptions(DocumentFormat.AltoXml) as AltoXmlDocumentOptions; 
      altoXmlOptions.FileName = inputFileName; 
      altoXmlOptions.SoftwareCreator = "LEAD"; 
      docWriter.SetOptions(DocumentFormat.AltoXml, altoXmlOptions); 
 
      // Create a document 
      using (var ocrDocument = ocrEngine.DocumentManager.CreateDocument()) 
      { 
         // Add the image 
         var ocrPage = ocrDocument.Pages.AddPage(inputFileName, null); 
 
         // Recognize it 
         ocrPage.Recognize(null); 
 
         // Save the document as ALTO XML 
         ocrDocument.Save(outputFileName, DocumentFormat.AltoXml, null); 
      } 
   } 
} 
 
static class LEAD_VARS 
{ 
   public const string ImagesDir = @"C:\LEADTOOLS22\Resources\Images"; 
   public const string OcrLEADRuntimeDir = @"C:\LEADTOOLS22\Bin\Common\OcrLEADRuntime"; 
}