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A2iA Zone Locator

The A2iA Zone Locator is now deprecated and no longer supported. However, if you have used an A2iA Zone Locator in a previous release, it is possible to continue to use these locators at your own risk. The A2iA Zone Locator and the Check and Cursive Recognition engine remain for reference purposes only and are not meant for use in production.

Alternatively, you can migrate these locators to a supported locator method. To use or migrate an A2iA Zone Locator it is necessary to install the Check and Cursive Recognition Add-On.

See the Kofax Transformation Modules Installation Guide for more information on installing the Check and Cursive Recognition Add-On.

When you migrate an A2iA Zone Locator, the following behavior occurs:

  1. If an A2iA Zone Locator is configured to use the CheckReader functionality, then it is migrated to a Check Locator.

  2. If an A2iA Zone Locator is configured to use the FieldReader functionality, it is migrated to an Advanced Zone Locator that uses the FormXtra recognition engine . If a single A2iA Zone Locator has multiple zones then multiple FormXtra zone profiles are created, one for each zone. This enables you to configure unique settings for each zone.

A2iA Zone Locator icon The A2iA Zone Locator can locate, extract, and recognize printed, hand written, and cursive data located in consistent positions across all documents in a class. Cursive data includes signatures and other joined up writing. This locator is configured and uses zones similar to the Advanced Zone Locator.

The different types of documents that can be processed with this locator method are bank checks, bank deposit slips, contracts, and any other documents that have hand written content that is not easily recognized by other recognition engines.

The A2iA Zone Locator described in this section is part of the Kofax Transformation Modules installation, but is not installed by default. In order to use this locator, you must select the Check and Cursive Recognition Add-On when you install Kofax Transformation Modules. Alternatively, you can add the recognition engine at a later time using the original installer files. If the A2iA Zone Locator is not available in the list of locator methods, this means that the necessary Add-On is not installed.

In addition, this locator and its recognition engines require a separate license to run in production.

This locator utilizes the following recognition engines to recognize difficult characters like words written in cursive hand writing:

The A2iA Zone Locator does not support Unicode characters for fields. For example, this means that Japanese and Chinese characters are not supported in the project path and for the A2iA field names.

To manage your A2iA Zone Locator:

Although you can click tabs in any order, add the necessary settings on the General tab before proceeding to any of the other tabs.

The Properties of A2iA Zone Locator window has the following tabs: