Confidence Reporting: OCR Professional

For some applications, it may be important to know the reliability of the recognized text generated by the engine. These applications may require having additional confidence information for the recognized characters and/or words.

The RECOGCHARS2.nConfidence field expresses the certainty of the character recognition: ranging from 0 to 100.

Applications that examine the character confidence information can use a threshold value, below which the character value is treated as a suspicious result. A value of 64 is recommended for this purpose. A value equal to or larger than 64 will indicate that the character was recognized with high confidence. A value less than 64 indicates that the code is suspicious.

Figure 1. Confidence Threshold with a Specified Value of 64

NOTE: The confidence reporting system works best when all three recognition modules are used in the voting scheme (DOC2_RECOGMODULE_OMNIFONT_PLUS3W), but this is not the default value. If other machine print recognition modules are used (DOC2_RECOGMODULE_OMNIFONT_PLUS2W, DOC2_RECOGMODULE_MTEXT_OMNIFONT, etc) then confidence information is still available, but the ability of the system to properly report confidence will be reduced. This will result in a higher level of false negative and false positive reporting of suspicious recognition results.

NOTE: User words and dictionaries are no longer supported in the OCR Professional Engine.

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