Tables with visible gridlines (gridded tables) in an original page can usually be detected successfully by the auto-zoning function. In contrast, tables without visible cell separators in the original are harder to identify as tables, because they could alternately be word lists or data arranged in columns. The Capture SDK offers an algorithm for detecting such non-gridded tables more confidently. This feature can only be used in conjunction with an auto-zoning step. The non-gridded table detect algorithm is based on the result of the character recognition. This algorithm will run only if all the following conditions are met:
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AT_ERRCOUNT nErrCount; HIG_REC_IMAGE hImg; HIGEAR hIGear; AT_REC_ZONE zone; nErrCount = IG_load_file("Image.tif", &hIGear ); nErrCount = IG_REC_image_import(hIGear, &hImg); nErrCount = IG_image_delete(hIGear); memset(&zone, 0, sizeof(AT_REC_ZONE)); zone.Rect.left = 10; zone.Rect.top = 20; zone.Rect.right = 330; zone.Rect.bottom = 50; // textual zone: it contains flowed text zone.Type = IG_REC_WT_FLOW; // Omnifont filling method was used to fill the zone's area zone.FillingMethod = IG_REC_FM_OMNIFONT; // MOR recognition module will be applied for the zone's area zone.RecognitionModule = IG_REC_RM_OMNIFONT_MOR; // Character Set: only uppercase letters. zone.Filter = IG_REC_FILTER_UPPERCASE; // Insert the zone to the zone list nErrCount = IG_REC_zone_insert(hImg, 0, &zone); // Save zone list nErrCount = IG_REC_zones_save(hImg, "SAMPLE.ZON"); //... nErrCount = IG_REC_image_delete(hImg); |
To get information about any particular zone of the zone list of the image, the application can invoke the IG_REC_zone_info_get() function. This can be useful to find out more about the zones created by the auto-zoning function.
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AT_ERRCOUNT nErrCount; HIGEAR hIGear; HIG_REC_IMAGE hImg; AT_INT nZoneCount; AT_REC_ZONE zone; nErrCount = IG_load_file("Image.tif", &hIGear ); nErrCount = IG_REC_image_import(hIGear, &hImg); nErrCount = IG_image_delete(hIGear); nErrCount = IG_REC_zones_load(hImg, "SAMPLE.ZON"); nErrCount = IG_REC_zones_count_get(hImg, &nZoneCount); // Get the first zone in the zone list nErrCount = IG_REC_zone_info_get(hImg, 0, &zone); // Adjust the left border of the zone by 10 pixels zone.Rect.left -= 10; // Zone content will be handled as a flow text zone.Type = IG_REC_WT_FLOW; nErrCount = IG_REC_zone_info_set(hImg, 0, &zone); nErrCount = IG_REC_zones_save(hImg, "SAMPLE.ZON"); //... nErrCount = IG_REC_image_delete(hImg); |
When updating a table-type zone with the IG_REC_zone_info_set() function, the "cell-detection" algorithm won't be activated, which will result in improper table detection within the zone.