The recognition process is initiated by the ImGearRecPage.Recognize Method.

The Recognize Method processes the single image associated with the ImGearRecPage Class. The function takes the zone list of the image or if it is empty, automatically calls the page-layout decomposition process (auto-zoning).

Internally this function operates on a bitonal image. If the image is not bitonal or the image despeckle mode setting is enabled, an implicit secondary image conversion step is performed automatically to create a secondary image. This implicit image conversion can be influenced with previous settings of the ImGearRecPreprocessingSettings.SecondaryReductionMode Property and DespeckleMode Property.

The Recognize Method enumerates the zones in the zone list and activates the appropriate recognition modules for them. The recognition modules are given the calculated Character Set information zone by zone.