PRIMEPOSTTM - Prime Recognition
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1. FixedFont Font name used for fixed pitch fonts e x Courier New ProportionalSansSerifFont Font name used for proportional sans serif fonts e x Arial Error Handling If the Error Reporting flag is set to 0 then non fatal error messages will be written to the PRPOSTIA LOG file Error Codes 99 100 110 111 120 130 143 150 160 170 180 190 200 210 220 240 260 270 280 290 300 310 320 340 744 755 756 760 761 764 767 781 790 870 to 999 1032 1179 11791 1904 1999 9999 Pro file has not been loaded yet Could not open temporary pro file Could not save pro file pro file Software version does not match version licensed on hardware key Could not open temporary pro file Could not find prverify ini file Could not find open output file Could not find this pro file Pro file includes Word output Indicated Pro file does not have PRO format DPI reported in PRO file was not correct Error in output data File may be corrupted number_of_zones Error in output data File may be corrupted good i numlines converted of lines Error in output data File may be corrupted 4 Error in output data File may be corrupted added_spaces Output data File may be corrupted display_lines Incorrect line number Incorrect character number Attempted to enter cut text beyond end of current line of text Attempted to enter cut text on a blank line Last char2. LogFile A value of one causes all major engine actions to be reported to a ASCII log file titled PRPOSTIA LOG in application directory Error Reporting A value of one causes all errors to generate a error dialog box A value of zero will only interrupt processing for fatal errors Debug For Prime Recognition technical support use OutputFormat This tells PrimePost which output format to use O ASCII text file l FASCII 2 PDA2 Recommended for output going to IA Text Export Module 3 PRO O RTF 11 PDF Normal Recommended for output going to IA PDF Export Module 12 PDF Image Only Recommended for output going to IA PDF Export Module 13 PDF Image with Hidden Text Recommended for output going to IA PDF Export Module 15 Comma delimited output The output of each zone is seperated by a comma Useful for importing output data into a database 16 HTML For text conversion only Images are not included in the output XXXX custom format often comma delimited For a description of each format see PrimeOCR Access Kit Guide OutputLocal Blank no local output or FullPath FileName Extension a copy of output file will be placed in FullPath FileName Extension as noted below FullPath must be available to PC performing OCR FileName six digits will be added to the file name This number will increment with each file processed Extension will be applied to each output file For example if
3. OutputLocal c test pp rtf then first output file will be saved to c test pp000000 rtf Second file will be c test pp000001 rtf If files must be 8 3 then do not supply more than two characters for file name ApplicationType This tells PrimePost which rules to apply to the data Contact Prime Recognition for the appropriate type for your application You should leave this blank if you are only converting PRO to some output format such as RTF or PDF UserDictionaryPath Full path to user dictionary file used for lexical check Format of file is ASCII text one word per line Place words typical to user s application but not common in every day language in this file to further improve accuracy Number of words in file is only limited by available RAM however more words in file will slow processing slighty SpellCheck 0 turns off spell check 1 spell check on Confidence level is taken from LexicalPlus value in template Any word containing one or more characters at this confidence level or below will be suspect and will be checked via a sophisticated spell check process A higher number is more aggressive at applying spell check to more and more words in document This number can be higher than LexicalCheck below since no changes are made to chracters and any confidence changes are likely to be correct SpellGoodConfidence 0 no changes to confidence values if suspect word is lexically OK as is 1 9 default 8 Character confi
4. Yes Logs suspect words and changes in lexical log SizeFont Percent change in font size Only relevant to output formats that report font size such as RTF PDF or PRO Examples 0 No change to font size 20 reduce stated point sizes by 20 S increase stated point sizes by 5 Suspect 0 9 PDF Normal setting Any word containing at least one character under this confidence will be displayed as an image snippet in PDF Normal output A good starting point for this field is 6 If blank or 0 then no snippets will appear in output Desample 1 600 dpi of images that will be saved in PDF file or RTF file If blank or 0 then leave dpi of image equal to original 200 is a common setting if desampling is desired PageXXX fields are expressed in BMU s 1 1200 inch Page Width O use default e g 9600 fixes page width to 8 inches PageHeight O use default e g 1200 fixes page height to 10 inches PageLeftMargin O use default e g 600 fixes left margin to 0 5 inches PageTopMargin O use default e g 660 fixes top margin to 0 55 inches PageRightMargin O use default e g 8400 fixes right margin to 7 inches NOTE MEASURED FROM LEFT EDGE PageBottomMargin O use default e g 11400 fixes bottom margin to 9 5 inches NOTE MEASURED FROM TOP EDGE WrapText 0 don t wrap text insert carriage return at the end of each line 1 wrap text within paragraph ProportionalFont Font name used for proportional fonts e x Times New Roman
5. 4 0 SP3 Win2000 WinXP RAM At least 8MB of free RAM does not include OS or other application memory needs Installation Run SETUP EXE from the main directory on the installation CD and follow the directions presented The installation program will handle all installation issues automatically including decompressing all files into a new or existing directory selected by the user PrimePost requires a hardware key be placed on LPTI port Please see a description of hardware key installation issues in Chapter 3 of PrimeOCR Access Kit Guide Starting Engine Click on the PRPOSTIA EXE icon in the installation directory from Explorer to initiate the server interface To start processing press the Start button The PrimePost server will wait for any work to do until the STOP button is pushed Stopping Engine To stop the server press the Stop button in the server window An image in process will complete processing and then the server will stop accepting and processing any new work Progress Reporting During operation the server will update the progress of the images being processed The right window displays the current status of each image being processed messages in this window can change rapidly The left side of the updates several statistics during processing The stats are tabulated by the total number of files have completed processing and any errors that may have occurred These statistics are reset to zero when STOP bu
6. agi ii RE COGNITION High Accuracy Optical Character Recognition PRIMEPOST InputAccel Version User Manual Version 4 00 Post OCR Processing PRIME RECOGNITION PHONE 425 895 0550 FAX 425 895 9580 EMAIL support primerecognition com WEB www primerecognition com FTP ftp primerecognition com Copyright 1996 2004 Prime Recognition All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photo copying recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publishers Printed in the United States of America Statement of Limited Warranty Prime Recognition warrants to the original licensee of this program that it conforms to Prime Recognition s specifications Should this program in Prime Recognition s option malfunction due to non conformity with Prime Recognition s specifications Prime Recognition will at its option repair replace or update the program at no charge provided that the program has not been subjected to misuse abuse accident disaster or non Prime Recognition authorized alterations modification and or repairs In no event shall Prime Recognition be liable for incidental or consequential damages in connection with or arising out of the furnishing performance or use of any of these programs Prime Recognition reserves the right to modify or revise all or part of this do
7. cument without notice and shall not be responsible for any loss cost or damage including consequential damage caused by reliance on these materials US Government Restricted Rights The documentation and software are provided with restricted rights Use duplication or disclosure by the government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph C 1 ii of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS 52 227 7013 Trademarks PrimePost is a trademark of Prime Recognition Other trademarks appearing in this manual are trademarks of their respective companies A100a 0020 990110 Overview PrimePost IA InputAccel version is a relatively simple application that 1 Accepts a PRO format file as input from InputAccel server typically created by the PrimeOCR TAengine and or PrimeVerify IA 2 In some cases applies custom programmed algorithms to correct data as much as possible optional 3 Outputs data in PDA2 or PDF format back into IA flow and or can output data locally outside IA flow in any supported output format including ASCII RTF PRO RRI3 etc The error correction algorithms can be very powerful Error rates have been cut by over 50 in applications that lend themselves to post processing Note that the custom algorithms often employ probabilistic formulas therefore not all modifications may be positive however the total effect should be positive System Requirements OS NT
8. dence values are increased proportional to this weight factor One use of this feature is to reduce suspicious characters so that later manual verification effort is reduced LexicalCheck 0 turns off lexical plus checking 1 lexical plus checking on Confidence level is taken from LexicalPlus value in template Any word containing one or more characters at this confidence level or below will be suspect and checked by lexical process A higher number is more aggressive at applying lexical check even to characters more likely to be correct Be cautious in increasing this value above 6 or 7 unless your application lends itself clearly to lexical processing LexicalBad FixConfidence 0 no changes to confidence values if suspect word is changed by lexical process 1 9 default 6 Character confidence values are increased proportional to this weight factor Use this feature for example to reduce suspicious characters during later manual verification LexicalBad NoFixConfidence 0 no changes to confidence values if suspect word is not changed 1 9 default 2 Character confidence values are set to this level Use this feature for example to flag entries for later manual verification ScoreThreshold 60 98 default 85 Possible solutions from the lexical process with a score above this number will replace the original word A higher number is less aggressive at using lexical process to replace recognized characters LexicalLog 0 No 1
9. n Example PrimePost IA Application DCOH Application Type DCOH Description Death Certificate form from state of Ohio Output Format Comma delimited text with file name of XXX txt where XXX is the file name of the PRO file Green Bar type application with 0 fixed zones and 10 column zones therefore each text file includes 10 entries on each line of file Note that blank fields will show up with no output for example a line with only one entry in the first field will look like 12345 Bad Definition No checking is made for bad files The confidence level generated by PrimeOCR is a very strong indicator of the quality of this application s output therefore a check at this level is not necessary
10. tton is pushed or server is restarted Configuring Engine A setup file controls the PrimePost Engine You can set which file will be used to control the engine as follows Send the file to the engine through the Template variable in a IPP PCF Send the local path to the engine through the TemplatePath variable in the IPP PCF If neither of these is set then the engine will look for the local copy of PRPOSTIA INI in the BIN directory The format of this file is below You can access this file directly with a ASCII editor or push the SETUP button which automatically loads the file into Notepad Note If you supply the file through the Template or TemplatePath command in the PCF then it must have the same format as PRPOSTIA INI documented below PRPOSTIA INI PrimePostIA Version 3 80 LogFile 0 Error Reporting 0 Debug 0 Save Output OutputFormat 11 OutputLocal PostApp ApplicationType PrimeLexicalPlus UserDictionaryPath SpellCheck 1 SpellGoodConfidence 8 LexicalCheck 1 LexicalBad FixConfidence 6 LexicalBad NoFixConfidence 2 ScoreThreshold 85 LexicalLog 1 Change Font SizeFont 0 PDF Suspect 0 Desample 200 RTF PageWidth 0 PageHeight 0 PageLeftMargin 0 PageTopMargin 0 PageRightMargin 0 PageBottomMargin 0 WrapText 0 ProportionalFont Times New Roman FixedFont Courier New ProportionalSansSerifFont Arial Each entry is detailed below Version Should match version of PrimePost engine
11. was lt 0 Original line number was incorrect Original char number was incorrect xy number was incorrect Could not create this export file Output exceeded allocated memory Error with compressing text buffer Could not open this tif file This is not a valid TIF file This is not a valid TIF ifd offset Unknown tif type Error reading rational tag in tif file x_res or y_res Error in tif file Error reading license from hardware key PrimeOCR engine has not been licensed for PDF output impacts PrimePost as well License error please call Prime Recognition License error please call Prime Recognition OCR data has not been loaded yet Unknown ApplicationType in PRPOSTIA INI Could not allocate memory 12001 command string was blank 12003 command string did not match any known command 12004 number of commands was incorrect 12005 required command was blank 12006 end zone gt actual number of zones Post OCR Processing In addition to converting PRO files to output formats PrimePost can be used to apply custom algorithms to further enhance the data or to convert it to custom formats This functionality is available in the PostApp ApplicationType entry in the PRPOSTIA INI file An example is provided below of such a algorithm Each algorithm is custom so there is no standard documented list of algorithms that can be published If you think your application would benefit from this capability please call Prime Recognitio
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