Configuring Advanced Capture to Use Intelligent Character Recognition - Advanced Capture - English - Foundation 22.1 - OnBase - Essential - Premier - Standard - external - Standard - Essential - Premier

Advanced Capture
Platform
OnBase
Product
Advanced Capture
Release
Foundation 22.1
License
Standard
Essential
Premier

If your solution is licensed for Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR), you can configure Advanced Capture to read and capture Keyword Values from hand-written text.

ICR can only be configured to be performed in Text Field, Line Item Extraction, and Group Line Item Extraction Data Field Zones (not Optical Mark Field or Signature Detection Field Data Field Zones). In order to perform ICR, the Data Field Zone must be configured to identify hand-written text instead of machine-printed text.

To configure a Data Field Zone to read hand-written text (i.e., perform ICR processing):

  1. From the Data Field Zone dialog box, ensure that either the Text Field tab, Line Item Extraction tab, or Group Line Item Extraction tab is displayed.
  2. Using the Advanced Recognition drop-down select list, select one of the OCR/ICR recognition options:

    • Machine print text/OCR. The OCR engine will perform optical character recognition in order to read machine-printed text.

      This option is selected by default.

    • Handwriting/ICR -numerals/grouping punctuation (North American style). The OCR engine will perform intelligent character recognition to read hand-written text.

      This option will only attempt to recognize numeric characters written in the North American style (e.g., the 7 character is not crossed).

    • Handwriting/ICR -numerals/grouping punctuation (European style). The OCR engine will perform intelligent character recognition to read hand-written text.

      This option will only attempt to recognize numeric characters written in the European style (e.g., the 7 character is crossed).

    • Handwriting/ICR - alphanumeric/punctuation. The OCR engine will perform intelligent character recognition in order to read hand-written text.

      This option will attempt to recognize all alphanumeric characters.

    • Auto-detect ICR/OCR - Default to ICR/Alphanumeric. The OCR engine will attempt to determine whether the value consists of hand-written or machine-printed text and then use the appropriate type of character recognition to read the text. When the type of text cannot be determined, intelligent character recognition for alphanumeric characters will be used by default.

    • Auto-detect ICR/OCR - Default to ICR/Numeric North American. The OCR engine will attempt to determine whether the value consists of hand-written or machine-printed text and then use the appropriate type of character recognition to read the text. When the type of text cannot be determined, intelligent character recognition for numeric, North American-style characters (e.g., the 7 character is not crossed) will be used by default.

    • Auto-detect ICR/OCR - Default to ICR/Numeric European. The OCR engine will attempt to determine whether the value consists of hand-written or machine-printed text and then use the appropriate type of character recognition to read the text. When the type of text cannot be determined, intelligent character recognition for numeric, European-style characters (e.g., the 7 character is crossed) will be used by default.

    • Auto-detect ICR/OCR - Default to OCR. The OCR engine will attempt to determine whether the value consists of hand-written or machine-printed text and then use the appropriate type of character recognition to read the text. When the type of text cannot be determined, optical character recognition will be used by default.

    Note:

    The Auto-detect ICR/OCR options may not work properly if the Data Field Zone contains less than 25 characters.

    Tip:

    Of the two Auto-detect ICR/OCR options, Default to ICR is more likely to produce the best results when the type of text cannot be determined. This is because the OCR engine's intelligent character recognition generally reads machine-printed text more accurately than the engine's optical character recognition reads hand-written text.

  3. If one of the Handwriting/ICR or Auto-detect ICR/OCR options is selected for a Text Field Data Field Zone, the Remove vertical/horizontal lines from zone before processing check box is displayed below the Advanced Recognition drop-down select list.
    Select this option if you would like the OCR engine to attempt to strip vertical or horizontal lines (i.e., constraint boxes) from the zone before it is processed.
  4. Once you have selected the OCR/ICR recognition option for the Data Field Zone, click Save to close the Data Field Zone dialog box.