Loading an Image

SmartZone ICR has no native ability to load an image from a file.

Typically Accusoft's ImagXpress component provided with the SmartZone ICR product 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 provides the ability to read and write to a stream using the ReadFromStream and WriteToStream methods. These streaming methods are provided to work with the Accusoft FormDirector component for reading and writing SmartZone ICR processing information and operations as needed to integrate into the Accusoft Forms Processing Suite of components.

Image Clean-up Functions

ScanFix 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