Loading an Image
SmartZone ICR/OCR have no native ability to load an image from a file and will throw an exception when asked to process a color or grayscale image. Typically, Accusoft's ImagXpress component, provided with the SmartZone ICR/OCR, will be used to open a 1-bit black and white image file. ImagXpress also provides the ability to binarize color images to make them black and white.
Streaming Information
SmartZone ICR/OCR provide the ability to read and write to a stream using the ReadFromStream (ICR: ReadFromStream; OCR: ReadFromStream) and WriteToStream (ICR: WriteToStream; OCR: WriteToStream) methods. These streaming methods are provided to work with the Accusoft FormDirector component for reading and writing SmartZone ICR/OCR processing information and operations, as needed to integrate into the Accusoft Forms Processing Suite of components.
Image Clean-up Functions
ScanFix Xpress can be purchased to perform advanced pre-processing operations on your images to clean them up before analyzing. Cleaner images will greatly improve SmartZone recognition results. These operations may include:
- Advanced Image Clean-up Functions
- Color Deskew and Color Drop
- Color Detect and automatic binarization
- Image Detergent®
- Color noise removal and character smoothing
- Basic Image Clean-up Functions
- Noise removal
- Binary deskew
- Line removal
- Detect and remove circles, such as from hole punches in the image
- Remove dot shading from forms
- Detect and remove "combs" or vertical lines used for hand print letter separation
- Register the image contents to left and top margins using customer configurable settings
- Automatically detect and correct inverse text
- Automatically detect and correct negated images
- Automatically crop borders
- Character completion and smoothing
- Smoothing, sharpening, edge detection, and user defined convolution filters on color and grayscale images
- Fill white or black horizontal and vertical gaps
- Erode and dilate the image
- Image Transformation Functions
- Mirror the image
- Flip the image
- Zoom and smooth the image
- Shear the image horizontally from 0 to 89 degrees
- Rotate the image at any angle
