LoadZones(Stream) Method

Summary

Load zones from a multipage zones .NET stream.

Syntax

Objective-C

C++/CLI

Python

public void LoadZones( 
   Stream stream 
)

- (BOOL)loadZonesFromStream:(LTLeadStream *)stream error:(NSError **)error NS_SWIFT_NAME(loadZones(from:));

void LoadZones(  
   Stream^ stream 
)

def LoadZones(self,stream):

Parameters

stream
The .NET stream containing the zones to load.

Remarks

To save and load the zones of OCR pages, you can use one of these methods:

IOcrPage.SaveZones(fileName) or IOcrPage.SaveZones(stream): These methods save the zones of a particular OCR page to a single-page disk file or stream. These methods will not use the page number, and hence, the file or stream will contain zones that are not tied to any particular page and can be loaded back into any OCR page regardless of its number. To load these zones back into any OCR page, use IOcrPage.LoadZones(fileName) or IOcrPage.LoadZones(stream).
IOcrPage.SaveZones(fileName, pageNumber) or IOcrPage.SaveZones(stream, pageNumber): These methods save the zones of a particular OCR page to a multipage disk file or stream. If the file or stream exist previously, these methods will replace the zones specified in 'pageNumber' with the zones of the IOcrPage. If the file or stream does not contain zones for the specified page number, the zones will be appended to the file or stream at the end and can be loaded later using IOcrPage.LoadZones(fileName, pageNumber) or IOcrPage.LoadZones(stream, pageNumber).
IOcrDocument.SaveZones(fileName) or IOcrDocument.SaveZones(stream): These methods save the zones of all the OCR pages in a document to a multipage disk file or stream. The saved data will contain the page number of the zones. To load these zones, you can either use IOcrDocument.LoadZones(fileName) or IOcrDocument.LoadZones(stream) to load the zones from a multipage file or stream back into a multipage OCR document. Or IOcrPage.LoadZones(fileName, pageNumber) and IOcrPage.LoadZones(stream, pageNumber) to load any single page from a multipage OCR document into a particular OCR page.

Note on loading zones from a multipage zone stream: If the stream does not contain zones data with the correct page number, the engine will not load any zones for this page. After the method returns, any OCR page that did not have zones data will contain zero zones. (the IOcrPage.Zones property contains 0 items). You can then use IOcrPage.AutoZone if required to re-zone this page.

Use this method to load the zones previously saved into a multipage zones stream file with the IOcrDocument.SaveZones(stream) method.

The zones of this page will first be cleared prior to loading the new items.

To load and save the zones to a disk file, use IOcrDocument.SaveZones(fileName), IOcrDocument.LoadZones(fileName) and IOcrPage.LoadZones(fileName, pageNumber).

Saving zones to an external file or a stream could be useful when you are processing forms. For example, you can load one of the forms and automatically find the zones inside it using AutoZone, if the automatic zone detection was not 100 percent satisfactory, you can update the zones in the IOcrPage.Zones collection manually and then save the result with IOcrDocument.SaveZones(fileName). Once the zones are saved. You can now process all similar forms in the following manner:

Add the form page or pages to an OCR document using the Pages collection of IOcrDocument.
Load the zones previously saved for each page using IOcrDocument.LoadZones(fileName).
Skip calling AutoZone and directly call IOcrPage.Recognize. This will also speed up the recognition process considerably.

Example

using Leadtools; 
using Leadtools.Codecs; 
using Leadtools.Ocr; 
using Leadtools.Forms.Common; 
using Leadtools.WinForms; 
using Leadtools.Drawing; 
 
public void LoadSaveZonesExample() 
{ 
   OcrEngineType engineType = OcrEngineType.LEAD; 
   using (IOcrEngine ocrEngine = OcrEngineManager.CreateEngine(engineType)) 
   { 
      ocrEngine.Startup(null, null, null, LEAD_VARS.OcrLEADRuntimeDir); 
 
      using (IOcrDocument ocrDocument = ocrEngine.DocumentManager.CreateDocument()) 
      { 
         // Add 2 pages 
         ocrDocument.Pages.AddPage(Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, "Ocr1.tif"), null); 
         ocrDocument.Pages.AddPage(Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, "Ocr2.tif"), null); 
 
         // Auto-zone all the pages 
         ocrDocument.Pages.AutoZone(null); 
         Console.WriteLine("Number of zones after auto-zone:"); 
         for (int i = 0; i < ocrDocument.Pages.Count; i++) 
         { 
            Console.WriteLine("  Page {0} has {1} zones.", i, ocrDocument.Pages[i].Zones.Count); 
         } 
 
         // Save the zones to a disk file 
         string zonesFileName = Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, "LoadSaveZonesExample.ozf"); 
         ocrDocument.SaveZones(zonesFileName); 
 
         // Clear the zones 
         for (int i = 0; i < ocrDocument.Pages.Count; i++) 
         { 
            ocrDocument.Pages[i].Zones.Clear(); 
         } 
 
         // Show the zones now: 
         Console.WriteLine("Number of zones after saving the zones to file and then clear:"); 
         for (int i = 0; i < ocrDocument.Pages.Count; i++) 
         { 
            Console.WriteLine("  Page {0} has {1} zones.", i, ocrDocument.Pages[i].Zones.Count); 
         } 
 
         // Re-load the zones 
         ocrDocument.LoadZones(zonesFileName); 
 
         // Show the zones now: 
         ocrDocument.Pages.AutoZone(null); 
         Console.WriteLine("Number of zones after loading the zones from file:"); 
         for (int i = 0; i < ocrDocument.Pages.Count; i++) 
         { 
            Console.WriteLine("  Page {0} has {1} zones.", i, ocrDocument.Pages[i].Zones.Count); 
         } 
      } 
   } 
} 
 
static class LEAD_VARS 
{ 
   public const string ImagesDir = @"C:\LEADTOOLS22\Resources\Images"; 
   public const string OcrLEADRuntimeDir = @"C:\LEADTOOLS22\Bin\Common\OcrLEADRuntime"; 
}