To get the recognized characters of a page, call IOcrPage.GetRecognizedCharacters after IOcrPage.Recognize or IOcrPage.RecognizeText.

To update the recognized characters of a page, call IOcrPage.GetRecognizedCharacters before calling IOcrDocument.Save or IOcrDocument.SaveXml.

IOcrPageCharacters implements the standard IList, ICollection and IEnumerable interfaces with items of type IOcrZoneCharacters. Each item in the IOcrPageCharacters contains a collection of the character collections of the zones.

The IOcrZoneCharacters interface contains a collection of the characters for a particular zone.

IOcrZoneCharacters also implements IList, ICollection and IEnumerable interfaces but with items of type OcrCharacter. Each item in the IOcrZoneCharacters contains a collection of the characters of the zone.

For example, if you are interesed in iterating through the characters of the 2nd zone in the page, you can do the following:

            // Get the page characters
            IOcrPageCharacters pageCharacters = ocrPage.GetRecognizedCharacters();
            // Get the 2nd zone characters. Note, index is zero-based so 2nd zone is index 1
            // You can also iterate through the pageCharacters collection and fine the IOcrZoneCharacters item with ZoneIndex = 1
            IOcrZoneCharacters zoneCharacters = pageCharacters.FindZoneCharacters(1);
            // Loop through the characters
            foreach(OcrCharacter ocrCharacter in zoneCharacters)
            {
               // Do something with ocrCharacter
            }
            

OcrCharacter is the most detailed information available about the recognized characters.

Touching characters, those whose shapes are physically joined in the page passed to the OCR engine, will result in a separate OcrCharacter structure for each recognized character within the block. However, the coordinate property of these characters (Bounds) will have identical coordinates defining a rectangle boundary for the character block. The order of the OcrCharacter structures representing a character block gives the order of the touching characters on the original document. This means the coordinates do not give information on the order of characters inside a boundary block.

System.Object
   System.ValueType
      Leadtools.Forms.Ocr.OcrCharacter

Target Platforms: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 family, Windows Server 2008 family, Windows Vista, Windows 7

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