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
• Filter Functions
  • 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

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