Revert to Zonal OCR When Locator Produces No Result
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Question / Problem:
Revert to Zonal OCR When Locator Produces No Result
Answer / Solution:
Suppose that a field is usually extracted via a locator, but if that locator produces no result then the field should fall back to OCR of a particular zone.
The preferred way to accomplish this is to use a Standard Evaluator configured to use a "First of" evaluation. The original locator would be used as the first locator and the subfield of the Advanced Zone Locator would be the second. If the first produced no alternatives, then the zone would be used.
An alternate way to do this is to run a Script Locator which calls the following function after the other locators. If the field is blank, it will be set to the OCR of the subfield.
' if the field 'fieldname' is not filled, then ' copy the original OCR values and position from zone 'zonename' Private Sub CopyResult(pXDoc As CASCADELib.CscXDocument, FieldName As String, LocatorName as String, ZoneName As String) Dim ZoneLoc As CscXDocField Dim Field As CscXDocField Dim Subfield As CscXDocSubField Set ZoneLoc = pXDoc.Locators.ItemByName(LocatorName) Set Field = pXDoc.Fields.ItemByName(FieldName) If Len(Field.Text) = 0 Then If ZoneLoc.Alternatives.Count > 0 Then If ZoneLoc.Alternatives(0).SubFields.Exists(ZoneName) Then Set Subfield = ZoneLoc.Alternatives(0).SubFields.ItemByName(ZoneName) Field.InitFromSubField(Subfield) End If End If End If End Sub
Applies to:
Product | Version | Category |
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KTM | 6.3 | Scripting |
KTM | 6.2 | Scripting |