Recognition Profiles Window - Advanced OCR Zonal

Use this window to select settings for the Kofax Advanced OCR Zonal recognition profile.

Name

Use the list to select a recognition profile. The other settings on the window are refreshed with the settings defined for the selected profile.

Engine

Advanced OCR Zonal is the default setting.

Languages

This contains a single language, or a list of multiple languages separated by semicolons. The edit box can scroll to display all the selected languages. You cannot select languages here; this is for informative purposes only.

Select Button

Click this button to select languages. The Recognition Languages window appears.

Mark level

Use these settings to specify the minimum level of confidence to accept for character recognition. Characters that do not meet this minimum level are marked with the mark flag.

General

If you select the General option, the adjacent drop-down list gives you a choice of three levels of confidence. The default level is Medium. The other choices are Low and High.

A setting of Low means that you accept a lower level of recognition confidence. There may be fewer mark flags in the results.

A setting of Medium means that you accept a moderate amount of recognition confidence. There may be more mark flags than with the Low setting.

A setting of High means that you require a greater degree of recognition confidence. There may be more mark flags than with the other settings.

Specific

If you select the Specific option, you can specify a precise level of confidence ranging from 0 to 100.

The level value for Low is 75.

The level value for Medium is 85.

The level value for High is 95.

Spell check and Spell check flag

Select the Spell check option to have unrecognized words compared to entries in a dictionary of known values. If they do not match, a spell check flag is inserted in front of the non-matching word. A default dictionary is used, based on the currently selected language. You can also specify a custom dictionary by selecting a text file in the Document Class Properties window OCR tab.

Use the Spell check flag to specify a character to indicate words that are not found in a dictionary. You can specify only a single character. Note that the following occurs when you have enabled and specified a spell check flag:

  • For a single language: All words are flagged when the selected language does not have a dictionary.

  • For multiple languages: Only words not found in the dictionary are flagged. If the selected language does not have a dictionary, then the word is not flagged.

If a word is flagged twice, once with the spell check flag and once with the confidence mark flag, the spell check flag is first, followed immediately by the confidence mark flag. However, if the two flags are set to the same character (for example ^), both flags are represented by a single character. This is the default behavior.

Non-natural language

Use this check box to specify unusual character strings that should be detected as valid entries for the selected language. For example, if the engine recognizes a character string such as 11Mar2014 but produces an unexpected result such as llMar2014, you can do the following to ensure correct results:

  • Select the Non-natural language check box.

  • Use the text entry field below the check box to specify the characters that are valid to include. For example, if you specify 1 as a valid character string the engine can successfully interpret "11Mar2010" as a valid character string and produce the expected result.

Advanced Button

Click this button to specify advanced recognition settings. The Advanced OCR Recognition Settings window appears.

Image cleanup

Select an image cleanup profile from the drop-down list.

Edit button

To modify an existing image cleanup profile or create a new one, click the Edit button. The Image Cleanup Profiles window appears, and you can specify the type of image cleanup to use and other advanced settings.

Delete button

Click this button to delete the currently selected profile. It is not possible to delete profiles that are built in to Kofax Capture.

Script button

If enabled, use this button to assign a recognition script to the selected profile. The Recognition Script window appears, and you can associate a recognition script with the recognition profile.

Test button

Click this button to test your zone settings. Your recognition and cleanup settings are applied to the zone with the results displayed in the Zone Test window.