Use this tab to determine how the format locator is used in your project.

Advanced

This group has the following options:

Use results from locator

Enable this option to use the results from another locator. This option is cleared by default.

Important This option is available only when there are two or more locators in a project and at least one of these locators appear above the current Format Locator in the project hierarchy. This is because locators are processed in order and the results from a previous locator is needed before the current locator can be processed.

If this option is enabled, the Format Definitions tab is disabled.

Settings for Regular Expressions

This group has the following options:

Use OCR substitution

Enable this option if you want to correct commonly misread letters or numbers. This option is cleared by default.

Define OCR Substitution

Click this button to open the OCR Substitution window and define OCR substitutions.

Settings for Non-Regular Expressions

This group has the following options:

Maximum search tolerance

This option helps you to perform a search by allowing for preceding or trailing characters alongside the comparison string. You can use the following equation to calculate the desired search tolerance:

Search Tolerance = 1.00 - Number of Characters (Search String) / Number of Characters (Comparison String)

A value of 0% requires an exact match to the search string and a value of 100% will match everything.

If you are searching a document for word such as name, the search tolerance can be adjusted so words that contain name are also returned. In order to find words like names or named, the tolerance here needs to allow an extra character or a Maximum search tolerance of 20%. To locate words such as surname, jobname, and unnamed, a value of 43% is required. A value of 50% is required to find words such as forename and username.

The value for this option is set to 30% by default.

Maximum word count

This option allows you to extract strings that consist of multiple words.

For example, a phone number that is separated by a hyphen (-) such as 123-456-7890, consists of three words. To ensure that these types of matches are found, the value for this option must be three or greater.

The value for this option is set to 6 by default.

Maximum gap between words

This specifies the maximum distance in mm that permits word concatenation during a search. Words that fall outside this measurement are treated as separate words and not included in the current search.

The value for this option is set to 5mm by default.

Maximum alternative length

This specifies the maximum length that an alternative is allowed. An alternative that exceeds this amount is rejected.

The value for this option is set to 100mm by default.

Definitions for the buttons at the bottom of this window can be found in Common Project Builder Buttons.