RecoStar recognition engine

This recognition engine is now deprecated and is no longer installed alongside this version of Kofax Transformation Modules. As a result, if you open a project that was created in an earlier version and uses one or more RecoStar recognition profiles, a project warning message is displayed explaining that the RecoStar recognition engine is no longer available and that you can no longer use those RecoStar recognition profiles.

A corresponding OmniPage profile is created for each RecoStar profile. The OmniPage copy is a replacement for the RecoStar profiles, yet the RecoStar profiles are still available for reference purposes. Any unsupported languages in the OmniPage recognition engine are mapped to a similar language that uses the same character-set. It is no longer possible to add new profiles or modify an existing profile to use the RecoStar recognition engine.

If you attempt to perform OCR when your project is configured to use one or more RecoStar recognition profiles, a fallback mechanism performs recognition using the corresponding OmniPage profile. This fallback mechanism does not negatively affect the recognition performance. When you decide to remove a RecoStar profile, you are prompted to confirm its deletion and notified that the corresponding OmniPage fallback profile is renamed to match the RecoStar profile that you are deleting. All instances where that profile is used, such as locators, profiles, and fields, are updated to use the renamed OmniPage fallback profile. The renaming of the OmniPage profile also takes over the internal IDs used the deleted RecoStar profile. This ensures that there are no issues in scripting where references to recognition profiles is done using names and internal IDs.

When modifying an older project that users RecoStar profiles, it is recommended that any additions to that project use the OmniPage recognition profiles instead of the old RecoStar profiles.