Recognition and print type fonts

If a recognition engine knows the type of font expected on a document in advance, recognition accuracy can be improved.

As a result, the FineReader and OmniPage recognition engines enable project administrators to specify a print type when adding or modifying a recognition profile.

Important The FineReader recognition engine will be deprecated in the next release of Kofax Transformation Modules. As a result, Kofax recommends that you use the OmniPage recognition profile for both page and zone recognition for all new projects. If you have existing projects that use one or more FineReader profiles, it is also recommended that you modify those projects to use a comparable OmniPage profile.

The following print types are available depending on the recognition engine and profile type:

This does not mean that other recognition engines cannot recognize zones with these print type fonts. It does mean that if you can configure a zone to expect one of these fonts, recognition rates can improve.