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2. When all text has been scanned a message will appear saying that the search is complete Inserting Text Text can be inserted on any line simply by typing text at the current cursor position Existing text to the right of the insertion point will shift to accommodate the new text Note Since PrimeVerify is tailored for finding and replacing incorrect text using the Return Enter key to insert new lines is not supported You can also Paste text that has been copied Ctrl C or Cut Ctrl X Changing Text to High Confidence You can change the confidence of a character word to 9 or high confidence indicating you have reviewed and found the character to be correct The key sequence F4 F5 or the TAB key assuming the proper option has been set will make this change Convert Selection to UPPERCASE owercase Selected text is converted to respective case PrimeVerify will allow you to save modification made to the recognized text in the PRO Output file by choosing Save Output from the FILE menu If you need to close the open Output file before proofreading is complete the Save command will store your modifications to date and allow you to continue where you left off the next time the file is opened Since a Save operation will overwrite the existing Output file as generated by PrimeOCR you may want to use Save Output As from the FILE menu to save your changes to another file instead Choosing Save Output As will disp
3. Forces the page size to this dimension Margins Indent text from the relevant margin by this amount Notes on Page and Margin variables All coordinates are expressed in BMUs 1 1200 of an inch and are relative to the top left hand corner of the page Any coordinate can be listed as 1 In this case the real value is reported Prime Recognition Multiple Export Closing the Output File Auto Process PrimeView PrimeVerify Any coordinate can be 99 in which case ALL coordinates will NOT be reported in the RTF output If a coordinate is listed this fixed coordinate will be reported for all pages of OCR output in the RTF output Proportional Fixed Fonts You may select the fonts that will be reported in the RTF file for proportional proportional sans serif and fixed pitch fonts Make sure you enter font names that are spelled exactly as they appear in your target word processor or other application This command under the File menu allows you to export many output files at one time without opening and exporting each file individually You may use this feature for example by generating all OCR output as pro output Based on the confidence level report generated by the Job Server you might segment a large number of files as exceeding your minimum confidence threshold These files you export using the Multiple Export command without verification The remaining files are verified using PrimeVerify
4. the cursor changes into a box that is drawn around the entire character The box means that the character is selected and edit operations such as typing the correct character if the highlighted character is wrong will automatically remove the character before performing the operation Once you have tabbed to the last highlighted character pressing the tab key again will only remove the box drawn around the last character indicating that you have reached the end of the proofreading process As an alternative to moving between and selecting highlighted characters you can move between and highlight entire words that contain low confidence characters by using Tab in combination with the Shift and Ctrl keys Tabbing Between Words That Contain Highlighted Characters When you hold down the Shift key and press Tab PrimeVerify will locate the next highlighted character and draw a box around the entire word that contains it The entire word is now selected and the word will automatically be removed when any text editing operation is performed This option is useful when it is faster to type over the entire word than to replace individual characters in the word You can also move to the previous word containing one or more highlighted characters by holding down the Ctrl key and pressing Tab Text Navigation Selection using other Options Return Key The Return key can be used to quickly select the current word in the edit display Hold down t
5. Note that only the configuration settings active at the time of the template file save action will be used intermediate changes even when performed on different pages are ignored all pages receive the full page current settings configuration This option is most useful when you want to quickly set up a template which OCRs all pages within a file using the same full page settings Full Page Zone Default Automatically creates a full page zone for all pages in the image which the user views images not viewed by user are assumed to not require OCR The net effect of this option is to automatically bring up a full page zone when a page is first loaded In every other way PrimeView acts normally Autoload Template If a template exists for the newly loaded image in the current template directory which may not be the directory of the image the template will automatically be loaded This option is useful when using PrimeView to review QA zones created by Prime Recognition s automatic zoning tools Retain Template between Images Keeps existing template on screen and active even if image is changed This option is useful to define and test whether a single template will work with multiple images Before submitting the image for OCR you must decide what type of file format the recognized text should be stored in Select one of the following formats from the OCR menu 5 9 Prime Recognition PrimeView PrimeVerify ASCII OCR resul
6. Once you have supplied all of the information required to process the open image specified image attributes selected text on the page to OCR made any zone specific settings and determined an Output file format you are ready to submit the image to the PrimeOCR engine for processing Job Queue Setup The first step is to setup the directory to which you will be writing job files PrimeOCR uses two job queues to manage image recognition PrimeOCR looks for new images to process in these queues Select the Job Queue Setup menu item and double click on the desired directory to select it The full path to this directory will display under the word Directories The directory that you choose here should be the same directory that PrimeOCR reads when looking for new jobs See the PrimeOCR Guide for more information on setting the Job Queue Directory for PrimeOCR Submit Job This menu item causes PrimeView to create a job file for your image and places that file in the specified job directory The job file contains the location of both the image you have submitted and its corresponding Template PrimeView creates the job file using the name of the open image with the addition of a JOB extension If a job file with this name already exists you can overwrite it or choose another job file name The open image is closed after submission for OCR and the page once again becomes blank If you have chosen the Retain Template
7. PRIMAGE INI file of PrimeOCR e For most functions you will want to experiment with the preprocessing settings to select the best combination of functions and respective configuration settings Strong AutoRotate This is not a ScanFix feature It was developed by Prime Recognition It is slower but much more accurate than the ScanFix version We strongly recommend you use this version of AutoRotate as well as the regular version of AutoRotate both version compliment each other Save Processed Image This will save a copy of the image used for recognition to the same directory and file name as the original image except with a fix extension However the file will only be saved if deskew was turned on and or if any image processing was turned on and or Strong Auto Rotate was turned and the best orientation was different from the original image If none of these conditions were true then we would just be saving the original image file PrimeView offers several processing options that may speed your zoning effort These options should typically be set at the beginning of the zoning session The processing options are mutually exclusive if you select one option it will automatically deselect any option previously set AutoZone Text Top to Bottom Automatic zoning will be performed by the PrimeOCR engine Only text zones will be identified not image zones The zones will be ordered from top of the page to the bottom I
8. PrimeVerify application to review and edit the text results generated by PrimeOCR Chapter 7 Troubleshooting This chapter provides suggestions and highlights points that might be helpful in troubleshooting Chapter 8 Programming Considerations Prime View and PrimeVerify are end user applications however this chapter describes some ways to access its functionality programmatically Chapter 9 InputAccel Version A version of PrimeVerify has been adapted to the InputAccel imaging system This chapter describes this product very briefly This version of PrimeVerify is not included in this distribution Other Publications Refer to the PrimeOCR Access Guide for information on how to install PrimeOCR for use with the Prime View and PrimeVerify applications The PTM template and JOB job formats used by PrimeView and the PRO format used by PrimeVerify are defined in the PrimeOCR Job Server chapter of the PrimeOCR Access Guide Other publications that may be of interest include PrimeView Data Sheet PrimeVerify Data Sheet PrimeOCR Data Sheet Prime Recognition High Accuracy OCR Cost Justification Prime Recognition High Accuracy OCR Cleaner Data Justification iii Prime Recognition Chapter 1 PrimeView PrimeVerify Overview Prime Recognition Applications PrimeView Ea Sj Prime Verify PrimeOCR PrimeView and PrimeVerify are a set of Microsoft Windows based products designed to assist the user in perf
9. Repeat this procedure for all of the text regions on the page that you want to OCR The Current Zone settings will change to reflect the values set for each zone You can change how PrimeOCR recognizes text in the current zone by modifying these settings The commands on the EDIT menu allow you to remove or redraw zones on the image page as follows e Clear Zone This command will remove the current zone which is highlighted with a red border If no zone is current i e all zones have a blue border click anywhere inside of the desired zone with the mouse to highlight it and choose Clear Zone from the EDIT menu This will remove the zone and renumber all zones above it e Clear Zones Use this command to remove all zones on the page Selecting Clear All Zones from the EDIT menu will delete all zones drawn and make the full page the current zone Prime Recognition Specifying Zone Settings PrimeView PrimeVerify r Current Zone Number 1 Each time a new Zone is drawn it receives a unique number and becomes the Current Zone as denoted by its red border Zones that are not the current zone are outlined oe None in blue To make any one of these zones the current zone estriction Lexical Check Standard simply click anywhere inside of the zone with the mouse The border of the selected zone will change to red and its zone number and settings will be displayed in the Current Zone Accuracy Leve
10. between Images Option then the active Template remains open for use with another image Otherwise the template is erased Submit Job As This option lets you select a new directory and or change the file name of the job file Submit Job and Load Next After job is submitted it automatically does a F3 type action loading the next image in the directory Other Options PrimeView offers an option that can further speed your processing 5 11 Prime Recognition Exiting Prime View PrimeView PrimeVerify Template Put In Image Path Typical If selected this will put the template file in the same directory as the image If not selected then the template will be placed in the path that was created by the user in a Save As action Auto Ctrl J on F3 When going to next document via F3 command it will automatically submit the existing document template as a job to the configured job directory Auto F3 if F12 on last page of document If you are processing multiple page documents and you reach the last page of the document this will automatically load the next document Show Zone Text Displays Zone Text area in Current Zone part of User Interface Display Zone Text Table This will display the contents of ivtablel ini If you click on a line of text in this table it will insert the contents into Zone Text area So zone tags that reoccur frequently can be easily added without having to continually retype text A
11. combinations have been set up to allow for fast location and replacement of incorrect characters words or even full lines of text Image and text navigation operations are described below Image Synchronization One of the best features in PrimeVerify is the ability to see both recognized text and the original image together for easy heads up style editing To reduce the amount of searching required to verify text whenever text is selected in the edit display a corresponding box is drawn around the area on the image where the original text can be found For easy comparison the image display also moves to center the original text above the recognized text in the edit display area 6 5 Prime Recognition Navigation Keys Need a quick reminder on the PrimeVerify navigation keys Just choose KEY TABLE from the Main menu for a description of all Arrow Return and Tab key actions 6 6 PrimeView PrimeVerify Regardless of the type of text navigation used the image display will always try to synchronize the area on the image that corresponds with the current cursor position or selected text in the edit display Tabbing to the Next Highlighted Character You can quickly locate and edit low confidence characters that have been highlighted by pressing the Tab key The Tab key will only move the cursor between highlighted characters jumping over characters that are not red When it reaches the next low confidence character
12. have administrator rights if a page limit exists on the license e g evaluation license However the advantages of a software license compared to a hardware key makes the software license much more popular The advantage of a hardware key is that it can be easily moved to a different machine Its disadvantages include the need for a working USB port and keeping track of the hardware key itself USB based Key After installing the software install the key into an active USB port on the PC The installation process should automatically load the hardware key driver but if you must reload the driver for any reason you can go to the Sent directory and run SETUP EXE The program will periodically read the hardware key so the key must be present during all engine processing If you are receiving hardware key errors Make sure the key is securely attached to the USB port Verify that USB port is active Note that only the hardware key supplied with the product will pass the product s tests 4 1 Prime Recognition Software Key Installation Warning The file name of the PRLICENSE LOG file can be changed If you are updating multiple software licenses at one time make sure to name the log file something meaningful that will allow you to associate that file name to the specific PC it came from 4 2 PrimeView PrimeVerify If a software key has never been installed on the target machine and the user tries t
13. like the original page If zones were defined on the page then each zone is reported linearly down the page separated from the next zone by two inserted blank lines With this version of HTML output there is no ability to define columns or zones that appear next to each other in the output so the zones must be reported linearly down the page e RTF Rich Text Format version 1 x a format defined by Microsoft and widely used by word processing programs If zones have been defined the zones are defined as frames and text or images are inserted into the frames Image zones can only be viewed correctly in Word 7 0 or later e PDF Image Only Image Text and Normal are supported XML Word XML UTF 8 based format that includes recognized words and their coordinates on the page XML PRO XML UTF 8 based format that includes all the data that is in a PRO format file PDA2 A file format that is defined in the WordScan 5 2 Development Kit PrimeOCR s PDA format is Level 2 style This format should only be of interest to developers who have already interfaced to the WordScan product and want to use their existing output parsing code for PrimeOCR output ZyIndex ZyIndex format version 3 0 a format defined by ZyLab for use within their full text searching programs These options may be accessed under File Export Options menu command Point Size You may increase or decrease the size of all font sizes reported in
14. ois 6 15 Prime Recognition EXITING PRIMEVERIFY lt ccsceccocesscscocvecesescvesescocvtcasescvesescoevevesescvesevce Chapter 7 Troubleshooting FILE INPUT OUTPUT 2 20H man iaa INITIALIZATION PROBLEMS oireissa ieie beast i ei LICENSING ERRORS u E EE IMAGE DISPLAY PROBLEMS 2 01 0 4 2 222 2 00001000000000 Chapter8 Programming Considerations COMMAND LINE START PROCESSING A LIST 5 Chapter9 InputAccel Version PrimeView PrimeVerify Prime Recognition PrimeView PrimeVerify Contents of User s Guide Chapter 1 Overview This chapter gives a brief overview of PrimeView and PrimeVerify It also introduces other related Prime Recognition applications Chapter 2 System Requirements This chapter provides detailed descriptions of the hardware and software required to support the Prime View PrimeVerify applications Chapter 3 Installing PrimeView PrimeVerify This chapter provides instructions on how to install Prime View PrimeVerify Chapter 4 Licensing PrimeView PrimeVerify Prime View PrimeVerify require a license to be used This chapter describes the licensing method used for PrimeView PrimeVerify Chapter 5 PrimeView This chapter describes how to use the PrimeView application to submit images to PrimeOCR for Optical Character Recognition OCR Chapter 6 PrimeVerify This chapter describes how to use the
15. preparing one image to be used by another This is a particularly desirable feature for forms based images and other types of images that follow the same page layout Image jobs submitted for OCR processing are stored in a directory or Job queue Once an image is recognized by PrimeOCR the text output can be viewed and edited through PrimeVerify One of the best features in PrimeVerify is the ability to see both recognized text and the original image together for easy heads up style editing Characters flagged as suspicious by PrimeOCR are highlighted in red and a red box is also drawn around the area on the image where the suspicious character can be found 1 1 Prime Recognition PrimeView PrimeVerify Suspicious characters are highlighted based upon a user defined confidence threshold there are 9 to choose from and users can jump between highlighted characters using the TAB key The corresponding character on the original image is kept synchronized with the text being viewed Error statistics for each page are also supplied Users can make changes to any of the text and save the results in a variety of output formats Prime Recognition PrimeView PrimeVerify Chapter 2 System Requirements PrimeView and PrimeVerify run on Intel or compatible personal computers The system requirements are listed below Hardware e Intel PC or 100 compatible computer A hard disk with 30 megabytes of available disk space f
16. show that location in the OCR text You have to click on a location close to a character that was OCR d If you click on a blank area or perhaps on a character that was not OCR d then the text window will not respond If you draw a rectangle around text in the image and press F5 all OCR d text fully enclosed within that rectangle will be converted to high confidence text Note that no rectangle will be drawn in the text window To draw rectangle click down with the mouse in the top left corner of the rectangle you wish to draw then while still holding the mouse button down move the mouse to the bottom right corner of the desired rectangle and release the mouse button Choose Exit from the FILE menu to terminate the PrimeVerify application If you have an open Output file PrimeVerify will ask if you want to save any changes before closing Prime Recognition Chapter 7 File Input Output Initialization Problems Licensing Errors Image Display Problems PrimeView PrimeVerify Troubleshooting Review the list of error conditions and corrections shown below if you experience problems while running PrimeView or PrimeVerify If an error occurs while trying to open close save export or update a file make sure that the file is not in use by another application and that the file s drive is accessible to your system and is not full PrimeView relies on the Initialization files PRVIEW INI and PrimeVerify reli
17. you can export the recognized text to variety of output formats such as ASCII or RTF e Configure Options optional PrimeVerify includes several processing options that can speed verification The remainder of this chapter describes the proofreading process in greater detail 6 1 Prime Recognition Opening an Output File Image Location PrimeVerify will always look for the original image using the path specified in the Output file Only after failing to find the image using this path will it use any Default Image Directory that you specify 6 2 PrimeView PrimeVerify PrimeVerify requires an Output file that is in the PRO format Most commonly these files have a PRO extension but that is not required The PRO file type is generated by PrimeOCR and contains all of the recognized text from the image submitted by PrimeView as well as character confidence values and location information PrimeOCR will only generate a PRO output file if the Output File Type within PrimeView for this image was set to PrimeOCR Output Choosing another Output File Type assumes that the user wants to bypass proofreading and output the recognized text directly to one of the supported export formats Locating an Output File PrimeOCR deposits all Output files into the directory specified by the PrimeOCR Job Server Setup screen Refer to the PrimeOCR Access Guide for more information on running PrimeOCR Job Server or check with you sys
18. 0 Line 6 Table Height 1000 Line 7 Word 1 TEST Line 8 Word 8 TEST2 Lines 3 6 reflect the location and size of the table when it is placed on the screen These numbers are modified if the user changes the location of the tables Many lines in positions 7 gt can be created to add strings to the table Log Opening of Files If selected a file called install directory PR VERIFYREAD LOG is created which lists the date and time each PRO file is opened Note that this is not per page it is per document which might be a multiple page document Image Driven Mode Instead of a vertical arrangement of windows the display is now horizontal with the image to the left and the OCR d text to the right In the traditional Prime Verify mode user actions are assumed to be primarily occurring in the OCR d text window and the image will move in response to these actions In Image Driven mode you can use the mouse to perform actions on the image The three main actions are If you scroll the image window the OCR text window will also scroll Note that the image window and text window may scroll at different rates There are multiple causes of this including different zoom levels different character sizes the possibility of OCR zones in the OCR results window etc 6 15 Prime Recognition Exiting PrimeVerify PrimeView PrimeVerify If you click on a location in the image window the text window will now move to
19. MMS RECOGNITION High Accuracy Optical Character Recognition PRIMEVIEW PRIMEVERIFY User s Guide Version 5 30 PRIME RECOGNITION PHONE 425 895 0550 FAX 425 484 6415 EMAIL support primerecognition com WEB www primerecognition com FTP ftp primerecognition com Copyright 1994 2014 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 photocopying 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 alteration 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 document without notice and shall not
20. 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 PrimeView PrimeVerify and PrimeOCR are trademarks of Prime Recognition Other trademarks appearing in this manual are trademarks of their respective companies E1000 110713 Prime Recognition PrimeView PrimeVerify Table of Contents OTHER PUBLICATIONS RRR RR RR RS Chapter 1 Overview PRIME RECOGNITION 4 EEEE EErEE eE 1 1 PRIMEVIEW 1 1 PRIME VERIRM ici ser enden 1 1 Chapter2 System Requirements HARDWARE iii RISALIRE Ro Re 2 1 SOFTWARE E a AZ cheers Santee ARTT E tans 2 1 Chapter3 Installing PrimeView amp PrimeVerify INSTALE PRIMBOCR La RR Lara 3 1 INSTALLING 41 3 1 Chapter4 Licensing PrimeV
21. by selecting Zoom to Full Screen from the VIEW menu Prime Recognition Configure Page Attributes PrimeView PrimeVerify To help PrimeOCR perform the best recognition possible Page Configuration Language US Same Font As Last Page you will need to specify the correct Page settings for the open image OCR accuracy can vary greatly depending upon how these values are set so you may want to experiment with Print Type M achine different settings to see which is best for the type of Image Quality Standard image s you are working with Use the definitions below to determine your document s image quality Creating Zones on a Page e Language This setting is only relevant when the optional international language version of PrimeOCR is installed Choose the language of the image Choices include English and 10 other western European languages e Machine Print Tells PrimeOCR that the characters on the page where formed by a typewriter laser printer typeset etc Dot Matrix Characters were formed by a dot matrix printer with spaces between the dots If dots overlap use the Machine Print setting e Standard Choose this setting for the majority of images e Poor Choose this setting to boost PrimeOCR speed and accuracy on very low quality images such as standard mode Fax e Same Font As Last Page This setting tells PrimeOCR that the current image page is similar to th
22. ccessible Style Templates acc Typically used to produce Section 508 compatible Accessible PDF Files Templates will be produced with acc extension Content Restriction choices will be Text Figure Table Row and Table Column These Content Restriction labels will be added to the PTM on each zones description along with any zone text entered by the user This extra data is used by PrimeOCR in producing the Section 508 compatible PDF files Log Opening of files The name of the image file opened and the current time is written to the installdirectory PR VIEWREAD LOG file in the installation directory Useful for monitoring and QA purposes Show Zone Number The boxes indicating zones on the image will have the zone number displayed on them You can terminate the PrimeView application by choosing Exit from the FILE menu If you have created one or more zones on the image page PrimeView will allow you to save the zone information to a Template file Any changes you have made to the default Image Attributes Current Zone or Output File control settings as well as changes made to any checkable menu items will be saved automatically upon exit and loaded as defaults the next time you run PrimeView Prime Recognition Chapter 6 8 PrimeView PrimeVerify PrimeVerify Open the Prime Recognition program group and double click on the icon for PrimeVerify You will be presented with an application window that has a split
23. e location After specifying the new location PrimeVerify will ask if you want to use the directory for this image as the Default Image Directory If you accept PrimeVerify will look for images associated with subsequent Output files in this directory if it cannot find an image using the Output file s image path The second way to assign a Default Image Directory is to use the Directory Setup command from the IMAGE menu Prime Recognition PrimeView PrimeVerify Image Directory Setup Choosing Directory Setup from the IMAGE menu brings up the Select Directory dialog box Double click on the desired directory to select it The full path to this directory will display under the word Directories Prime Verify will look for images associated with subsequent Output files in this directory if it cannot find an image using the Output file s image path Now that you have opened an Output file and its associated image you are ready to make image and text display adjustments in preparation for the proofreading process Image Display Adjustments The initial display settings for an image may make viewing the image difficult Maximizing the PrimeVerify Window Once an image is opened it is shown in the image display area To enlarge the image display area for better viewing use the Maximize button on the upper right corner of the PrimeVerify window This will expand the window to fit your entire screen Zoom To Full Screen To hav
24. e First select one output file This act targets the whole directory in which this file resides for export not just the target file e Second specify the type of export format you wish e Third mark the Include Ist Level Subdirectories box if you wish to also export all similar files in the direct subdirectories of the target directory Subdirectories two or more levels removed from the target directory are not processed e Fourth click OK to begin processing e A message box will appear when processing is complete to indicate the completion of processing Roughly 2 4 files per second are converted from pro format to the export format The export files are placed in the same directory as the original output files with the same file name but with txt or rtf extension When you have completed the proofreading process for the current Output file you can close it before moving on to the next file Choose Close Output from the FILE menu If changes have been made since the file was opened PrimeVerify will ask if you want to save them before closing After the file is closed both the image and edit display areas will be blank and you can open another Output file or exit PrimeVerify The user can define several actions to take place automatically on initiation of the Auto Process The automatic closing saving 6 13 Prime Recognition PrimeView PrimeVerify exporting and opening of the next file is a particu
25. e Working with Templates section below Resize Zone You can change the shape of the current zone by clicking on the small scroll bars around the Resize box If the zone boundary moves out of the visible area the image will automatically scroll to keep this edge of the zone in view If you want to move the zone boundary in larger steps then increase the Resize Increment setting Zone Text Allows you to enter a string of up to 100 characters for each zone This text will be written to the zone information line in an ACC style template file This text may be used to add alternative text for graphics in the production of PDF files that meet Section Prime Recognition Working with Templates PrimeView PrimeVerify 508 Accessibility requirements This Zone Text field is only visible if menu item Options Zone Text is selected Prime View allows you to save all of the zone information you supplied for an image into a file called a Template PrimeOCR uses this Template file when processing an image to determine what portion of the image to OCR and how If you do not use the commands on the FILE menu to create your own template one will be created for you when you choose any Submit function from the OCR menu The name of this file will combine the name of the open image file with a PTM extension If a Template file with this name already exists you can overwrite it or choose another Template file name If yo
26. e characters e Lowercase No restrictions but with no uppercase characters e AlphaUppercase Alphabetic but with no lowercase characters AlphaLowercase Alphabetic but with no uppercase characters e Optical Mark Recognition in other words define a zone in which marks occur PrimeOCR will return the percentage of black pixels within this zone area e Image PrimeOCR will save this zone as a separate Group 4 TIFF image in the image directory with the file name XXXX YYY where XXXX is the original file name and YYY is the cumulative number of image zones in this document Note that YYY must be between 000 and 999 e Anchor Prime Recognition offers certain special zoning tools which require the definition of an anchor point e Bar Code Can be used for 1D or 2D barcodes supported by PrimeOCR 5 5 Prime Recognition 5 6 PrimeView PrimeVerify Lexical Check This option tells PrimeOCR to perform a series of checks based upon zone content If zone content is None or Alphabetic and this setting is Standard then spelling and tri gram analysis is performed on text in zone and content restrictions as noted above are strictly enforced Any characters recognized that are not in these groups are switched to and confidence level 1 If this setting is increased to Lexical Plus X then an additional lexical step is performed The definition of this extra processing is controlled by PRLEXICA INI in the P
27. e is a much direct way of producing Image Only output e Image plus Hidden text Image is displayed with text available in the background for searching cut amp paste etc RTF Format defined by Microsoft version 1 X Used by many word processing programs Includes links to image zones if defined Image zones may only be displayed in Word 7 0 or later and compatible word processors XML Word XML UTF 8 based format that includes recognized words and their coordinates on the page XML PRO XML UTF 8 based format that includes all the data that is in a PRO format file PDA A file format that is defined in the WordScan 5 2 Development Kit PrimeOCR s PDA format is Level 2 style This format should only be of interest to developers who have already interfaced to the WordScan product and want to use their existing output parsing code for PrimeOCR output ASCII No Zone Buffer ASCII as defined above except with no blank lines between zones Prime Recognition PrimeView PrimeVerify FASCIITAG FASCII as defined above except with a tag line at bottom of page which includes any string added to the image file name line in job file Output format defined by Recognition Research Inc Version 3 0 ZyIndex FASCII as defined above except with a tag line at bottom of page which includes image file name time and date of image file creation ZyIndex format version 3 Submitting an Image for OCR
28. e last page recognized in terms of character font used Slight accuracy improvements can be achieved because PrimeOCR has the ability to learn between pages You can select only a portion of the page to OCR by drawing a Zone around it or you can OCR the whole page by defining the whole page as a Zone Zones Defined A Zone is a frame or box drawn on an image and the section of the image the box encloses Multiple zones can be drawn and each zone can have specific settings as discussed in the section entitled Specifying Zone Settings Drawing Zones To draw a zone around a region on the image to be OCR d position the mouse in the top left corner of the region then press and hold the left mouse button Drag the mouse down and to the right until you have covered all of the text to be OCR d Release the mouse button A red box outlines the region you have drawn and this new zone is assigned a number which is displayed in the Current Zone control on the left 5 3 Prime Recognition Removing Zones from a Page 5 4 PrimeView PrimeVerify Make sure that all of the text is completely inside of this box If the box cuts across any of the text OCR accuracy will be affected Also try to avoid having the same text appear in more than one zone overlapping zones as this will affect OCR accuracy Boxes can be cleared and redrawn using commands in the EDIT menu as discussed in the section entitled Removing Zones from a Page
29. e the image fill the entire width of the image display area use the Zoom To Full Screen command from the IMAGE menu If it is still difficult to view individual characters or words in this mode you will want to enlarge the image using PrimeVerify s Zoom In feature Zooming In and Out on an Image The Zoom In command on the IMAGE menu will enlarge the image in predefined increments Use the Zoom Out command on the IMAGE menu to shrink the image by the same increments At any time you can return to full width viewing by selecting Zoom to Full Screen Text Display Adjustments Black Boxes Suspicious characters are surrounded by a black box instead of a red box This option is helpful on monochrome screens Size Similar to Zoom In and Zoom Out for the image OCR Text Size display area the size of text shown in the edit display area can be changed using the Text Settings command Point Size 32 from the Main Menu Selecting this command brings up the Text Settings dialog box where you can change the font size of displayed text for easier proofreading Review Options Tab converts to high confidence If the user presses the TAB key then the last character confidence is set at 9 or high confidence indicating that the character was 6 3 Prime Recognition PrimeView PrimeVerify reviewed and found to be correct Review Characters Select criteria to include characters that will be reviewed Note that all criteria w
30. es on PRVERIFY INI respectively to retain user defaults between application sessions If when running either application you receive a message that says Only Use the Drop Down List Choices The Initialization file has been corrupted then delete the initialization file either PRVIEW INI or PRVERIFY INI for the application you are running The next time you run the application a new initialization file will be created automatically after you receive the message Could not open PRVERIFY INI PRVIEW INI file A new initialization file will be created Starts Up OK but Can t See Window Again the PRVIEW INI and PRVERIFY INI has been corrupted Delete appropriate INI file start application again Licensing errors will occur if you have not properly installed or licensed the software If you receive a message such as Could not find a license for PrimeView on this hardware key review the steps listed in the Licensing PrimeView amp PrimeVerify section of this manual If you are still having problems contact Prime Recognition If the image display area does not show an image after opening an image file in PrimeView or an Output file in Prime Verify you are probably experiencing a licensing problem See Licensing Errors above If the image display area shows an image at extreme magnification or you cannot move the image displayed simply use the Zoom Out command from the IMAGE menu to re adju
31. f no zones are identified a full page zone will be automatically created If multiple zones are defined all zones except for the first will be ignored On the first zone the coordinates will be ignored auto zoning is always performed on the full page however all the other zone settings will be used on all zones automatically found Prime Recognition Specifying Output File Format PrimeView PrimeVerify AutoZone Text Reading Order Same as above except zones will be reported in the reading order This is hard to do on complex documents hence may be prone to error AutoZone Text Image Top to Bottom Same as first AutoZone setting except images are now reported Image based data is only saved in PRO RTF and PDF Normal output There is no advantage to selecting this with any other type of output format AutoZone Text Image Reading Same as above except zones are now reported in reading order This is hard to do on complex documents hence may be prone to error AutoZone Text Clump Similar to AutoZone Text Top to Bottom as above except this is designed for documents in which text tends to be in random groupings like invoices or engineering drawings vs columns of text Full Page Zone All Pages Automatically creates a full page zone for all pages in the image using the existing settings The user may not modify the zone size under this option but may modify settings such as accuracy level etc
32. haracters Marked Contains the number of Level Marked 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 8 Total 1556 Average Confidence Text and Image Navigation characters in the current Output file that have been assigned the confidence level indicated at the left Using the image statistics chart shown if you were to set the Maximum confidence level marked field to 1 then only 1 character in the entire document would be highlighted in red If the maximum level was 6 then a total of eight characters would appear in red one from level 1 one from level 5 and six from level 6 e Cumulative Tells you the percentage of characters marked up to the confidence level indicated at the left out of the total number of characters in the Output file This number is especially useful for imaging projects that only want to verify OCR output if the number of low confidence characters say level 6 or below exceeds a certain percentage of the total of characters e Average Confidence This value gives you an idea of how well the entire document OCR d el bet Let deal Ley ey Highlighting characters not only helps to identify text for error correction but also aids in the text navigation process The cursor moves between highlighted character in the edit display area when the Tab key is pressed as detailed in the next section PrimeVerify has been designed for keyboard intensive proofreading and error correction Special keys and key
33. he Shift key and press Return to select the next word To select the previous word press Return while holding down the Ctrl key Arrow Keys Use the arrow keys to move the current cursor position left right up or down Holding down the Shift key while pressing the left or right arrow will draw a box around the previous or next character respectively Selecting the same arrow key again while the Shift key is depressed will enlarge the box to include the next character in that direction If you hold down the Ctrl key while selecting the left arrow key the current cursor position will jump to the beginning of the previous word Similarly a Ctrl Right arrow key combination moves the cursor to the beginning of the next word Mouse Clicking anywhere in the edit display area with the mouse will reposition the cursor at that location The mouse can also be Prime Recognition Page Navigation Searching for Text PrimeView PrimeVerify used in combination with the vertical scroll bars to move either display area up or down You can also select text using the mouse by drawing a box around it Click and hold down the left mouse button As you drag the mouse left or right a box will be drawn over the selected text Release the left mouse button to complete the selection Edit operations can then be performed on the text as described below To have PrimeVerify select an entire word simply double click with the mouse on any character within
34. ically the same as the PrimeVerify described previously in this manual with some differences and restrictions The InputAccel version of PrimeVerify ships in a different download Please contact Prime Recognition for this download if you will be running within the InputAccel imaging system 9 1
35. iew amp PrimeVerify HARDWARE KEY VS SOFFWARE KEY 2 2 2 ie i PU 4 1 HARDWARE KEY INSFALLATION cicnn e n ia 4 1 USB based 4 1 SOFTWARE KEY INSTALLATION i 4 2 SOFTWARE KEY HARDWARE OS DEPENDENCIES iii 4 2 Chapter 5 PrimeView RUNNING PRIMEVIEW c cei 5 1 OPENING AN IMAGE rada nere 5 1 IMAGE DISPLAY ADJUSTMENTS ccccssssssscecececsessnsccecececseseseaecececeesensaaececececsessaaeeeeececseeaaeaeeeeeesensaeaeeeeeees 5 2 CONFIGURE PAGE ATTRIBUTES ccccccssssssscecececsensscceceeccseseseaececcceesessaaesecececsessaaeseeceeceeseaaeseeeeseseneasaeseeeees 5 3 CREATING ZONES AR 5 3 REMOVING ZONES FROM A PAGE i 5 4 SPECIFYING ZONE LI i 5 5 WORKING WITH 5 5 7 CONFIGURE IMAGE PREPROCESSING FOR OCR L 5 8 SELECT ZONING OPTIONS aaa 5 8 SPECIFYING OUTPUT FILE FORMAT cccccccccecssssssscecececsesenececcceceeseseseseesceesessaaeceeececseaaececeeecsesesaeeeeeeeceeneas 5 9 SUBMITTING AN IMAGE FOR OCR 5 11 anni 5 11 EXTEING PRIME VTE W ALe 5 12 Chapter6 PrimeVerify OPENING AN OUTPUT
36. ill impact characters to be displayed so that if for example no Review Characters Font Attributes are selected then no characters will be Confidence displayed as suspicious even if meets all other suspicious parameters like low confidence Point Size Confidence Level Marking The display will Font Attributes highlight in red all characters that are within the Normal Bold specified confidence range so long as they meet all Italic Underline other criteria as well Since confidence level 9 is the highest ranking selecting this level will highlight all characters in the recognized text Most users will SKIPCHAR INI select a range of 1 to 6 or 1 to 7 Review Options Skip Characters in Capitalized Words Non Capitalized Words Point Size Most users should select a range of 1 to 39 all characters but if you wish to review only a Tab Converts to High Confidence select range you may do so with this control Font Attributes Most users should select all choices here but if you wish to only review italic characters for example then deselect all attributes except Italic Note that for the purposes of this display Normal is defined as a character that is not Bold or Italic or Underline Skip Characters Once characters have been chosen to be reviewed you can also then skip some of these chosen characters using the following parameters Skip characters in SKIPCHAR INI Selec
37. ith a series of OCR controls on the left hand side of the screen and an image display area on the right used to view the image you will be working with To submit an image to the PrimeOCR engine you will typically perform the steps listed below e Open an Image File Choose and display the image you are submitting to PrimeOCR e Make Image Display Adjustments optional Change how the image is displayed for easier viewing e Configure Image Attributes optional Help PrimeOCR perform the best recognition possible by selecting the type of image you are working with e Create Zones Choose one or more regions of the image to OCR and describe how PrimeOCR should recognize text within each e Load or Create an Image Template optional Save all of the OCR and Image settings you have made to a Template file for use with other images e Configure Image Preprocessing for OCR optional Help PrimeOCR perform the best recognition possible by preprocessing the image before OCR for example deskew e Choose an Output File Format Select a format for PrimeOCR to store all recognized text in e Submit the Image for OCR optional Create an entry for this image in the PrimeOCR Job Queue e Select Zoning Options optional Settings that will make zoning faster or more convenient Many of the steps listed above are optional If you do not need to change the Image and OCR between images you can quickly submit new images to PrimeOCR u
38. ith this confidence or less will display in the PDF file as an image snippet The text will also be in the file behind the snippet A setting of 0 turns off this feature Desample DPI Any image data in the file will be changed in resolution to the indicated resolution Usually you will downsample to 200 dpi to save file space Valid values are from 1 600 A value of 0 or blank will turn off this feature Optimize byte serve The PDF file may be optimized for downloading across the internet This requires a copy of Acrobat 4 0 or later to be installed on the same machine Bookmarks may be automatically added to the PDF file See BOOKMARK INI for more information Make Accessible Identifies content within the PDF file to improve accessibility for users with disabilities Sometime referred to as Section 508 a government regulation Modifications can include setting up reading order of text identifying paragraphs providing alternative text descriptions of graphics identifying reading order of tables Some of these features require extra data to be supplied Please refer to Chapter 5 of PrimeOCR section PDF_DEFAULTS for more details 6 11 Prime Recognition RTF PrimeView PrimeVerify PDF A Produce the PDF file so that it is compatible with the standard PDF A 1b or 1a Thumbnails Inserts thumbnails into PDF file Acrobat Reader 5 0 and above will automatically generate thumbnails so this setti
39. l Level 6 v Resize Increment 41 fio 1 100 Zone Text Keyboard Command You can quickly select a content restriction via a keyboard command ALT where is a number between 1 9 Order of Listings You can change the order of the Content Restriction listings through the creation of a PRZNCONT INI file Open the PRZNCONT INI file in the program directory e g PRIMEV with a text editor and see the instructions at the end of the file If there is no current zone the setting under Current Zone are grayed and the words Number none appear The settings specified in the Current Zone control affect the way PrimeOCR recognizes text in the current zone Changes to the settings under this control will affect only the current zone The settings available for each zone are Number You can change the order of zones by typing in a new zone number for the selected zone and pushing update button Content Restriction This feature strongly biases recognition to a particular set of possible characters which can significantly improve OCR accuracy For strict enforcement of content restriction see Enable Lexical Checking below The options are e None No restrictions e Alphabetic Valid characters include a z A Z and international characters e Numeric Valid characters include 0 9 and special characters E e Uppercase No restrictions but with no lowercas
40. larly powerful feature that can save significant amounts of operator time Auto Process Initiation The start of the Auto Process can occur via two methods 1 Auto Process menu item under File menu or CTRL U 2 End of file reached and When End of Current File is Reached Via Tab Key is selected under Configure Auto Process menu item If a file is a multipage file then Auto Process will only occur on the last page within the file Auto Process Configuration Select Configure Auto Process menu item from File menu Invoke Auto Process Select When End of Current File is Reached Via Tab Key to cause automatic initiation of Auto Process as discussed above Output Input Select Save To if you wish to save PRO file during Auto Process You can choose to save PRO file as is or save it to another fixed directory Select Export To if you wish to export PRO file during Auto Process You can choose to export PRO file to the same directory as the PRO file or export it to another fixed directory You can select the export format used for the process Note that you can both save and export PRO file These options are not mutually exclusive You can select to delete current PRO file It does not make much sense to Save To Same Directory as Input File and delete current PRO file so check to see that both of these items are not checked You can automatically open the next PRO file in the original PRO directory at the e
41. lay the Save File As dialog box where you can enter a new file name to store intermediate results If you do not supply a file extension the PRO extension will be added to the file name for you Choose OK to save changes to the new file You may want to export the verified text into a format other than PRO once the proofreading process is complete Choose Export from the FILE menu to display the Save File As dialog box Under File Name enter the name of the file you want to save the exported text to Under File Type choose one of the supported export formats listed below e ASCII Text from the edit display area is saved in a condensed standard ASCII format Page layout attributes such as leading spaces and blank lines are removed from the text Use this 6 9 Prime Recognition Export Options PrimeView PrimeVerify export format to save space when the text layout information from the original image is not required e Formatted ASCII Text from the edit display area is saved in the same format as the original image Spaces are inserted into the ASCII output to retain the original page layout of the text e Comma Delimited Content of each zone will be followed by character in output Usually only used in forms type applications e HTML Generate pages to display output on the web The output does not include image or OMR zones If the whole page was defined as one zone then the output will look
42. nd of the Auto Process The next file is defined by sorting the files alphabetically and choosing the file right after the current file in the list Skip Files by Confidence You can skip files that are below or above a user selected range of confidence Check Do Not Verify Files and enter the lowest average confidence level that you would like to review and the highest level Good numbers for each might Prime Recognition PrimeView PrimeVerify be 800 895 Only files with average confidence levels between these settings will be brought up for review PrimeVerify Options Show Insert Table X Special Characters Brings up a list of text strings in a table format If the user double Tables are an easy way to clicks on a text string it will be inserted at the current cursor position enter special ANSI ASCII If text in the display window has been selected this text will be cut characters not available on before the insertion Note that a file called iTablex ini must exist in many keyboards such as the same directory as PRVERIFY EXE where x is the number of or international characters the table to implement this option This ASCII format file has the Contact Prime Recognition following format if you need help creating these tables Line 1 Identifier PrimeVerify OCR Verifier iTable2 ini File Line 2 Version Version X X Line 3 Table X location 100 Line 4 Table Y location 100 Line 5 Table Width 50
43. nd on the EDIT menu For rapid searching use F3 the Find Next Shortcut 6 7 Prime Recognition 6 8 Editing Text PrimeView PrimeVerify Both Find and Find Next will start at the current cursor position and continue until either a match is found or the search loops back to the current cursor position Matches in the edit display are shown with boxes drawn around them to make editing easier If no match is found a message saying that the search is complete will appear once all of the text has been scanned Text in the Edit display area can be modified similar to the way you would edit text word processor The Edit operations that you can perform will remove replace or insert text Selecting Text In the text window click on a spot in the window and while holding down the mouse move the mouse to the end of the selection area You can select text across multiple lines of text Removing Text If there is a box around one or more characters in the edit display that text is considered selected Pressing either the Delete Backspace or Cut Ctrl X key will remove the selected text and the cursor will now appear as a vertical bar I at the position where the text was removed Selected text can also be removed and placed onto the Windows Clipboard using the Cut command from the EDIT menu If no text is selected i e the cursor is a vertical bar pressing the Delete key will remove the character
44. ng is generally not necessary except for PDF files will be viewed within a browser and Acrobat Reader version is less than 6 0 PDF file has a large number of pages and user does not want to wait for Acrobat Reader to create thumbnails in real time JBIG2 compression JBIG2 is a compression type that is only defined for black and white images It is a lossy compression some vendors claim that they can implement a lossless version but this is not accurate Zip Compression Color and grayscale images are compressed using Zip compression Zip compression is lossless Some customers including some Federal Government agencies require the use of lossless compression techniques Lossless compression results in larger file sizes than lossy compression Compression Only valid for color or gray scale images which use default JPEG compression 0 leaves the compression as is 100 is low levels of compression 100 is high level of compression which reduces file size and quality of image Retain PDF Data IF INPUT IMAGE IS PDF Bookmarks document data open page mode and hyperlinks of the original input PDF can be copied from the input PDF into the output PDF created by PrimeOCR Prime Verify HOWEVER THE IMAGE SUPPLIED TO PRIMEVERIFY MUST BE THE ORIGINAL PDF Wrapped Paragraphs If checked it removes the hard carriage return from the end of each line of text except where the end of a paragraph is sensed Page Width Height
45. nning a copy of PrimeView can submit jobs to the same PrimeOCR server It is recommended that PrimeOCR be installed on a PC dedicated to OCR processing OCR processing speed will decrease if other applications are running on the same system Installing Prime View PrimeVerify You must have administrator rights to install the software You will also need administrator rights if you have a software license with a page limit Read write rights are required for the install directory Run SETUP EXE from the main directory on 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 A program group entitled Prime Recognition will be created by the installation program to include icons for the applications Prime View and PrimeVerify and an icon for the PrimeVerify InputAccel module 3 1 Prime Recognition Chapter 4 PrimeView PrimeVerify Licensing PrimeView amp PrimeVerify PrimeView and PrimeVerify require a license to run This license may be either a software license or a hardware key Hardware Key vs Software Key Hardware Key Installation PrimeView Verify can utilize a hardware key or software key license A software license is tied to a specific machine and that machine s OS hardware configuration see details below It requires that the user
46. o run any other Prime Recognition product a temporary software license will automatically be created A permanent software license can be created or a temporary software license extended by running PRIMEV PRLICENSE EXE Click on Generate File button this will create the file PRIMEV PRLICENSE LOG Send this log file to your sales contact by email Your sales contact will return instructions on how to upgrade the license or in some cases a program The name of the program may be SoftwareKeyWrite EXE or a name that corresponds to the name of the log file you sent particularly if you sent in multiple log files Place this program in your PRIMEV directory and run You should get several dialog boxes indicating the progress and successful conclusion of the software license creation Software Key Hardware OS Dependencies The software license is specific to a particular machine It can be moved via deletion of license and creation of a new license on new machine The license is tied to three key items the operating system installation the Prime installation directory and the LAN adapter ID This means that you can change anything else on the machine without affecting your license Prime Recognition Chapter 5 Running Prime View En Opening an Image File PrimeView PrimeVerify PrimeView Open the Prime Recognition program group and double click on the icon for Prime View You will be presented w
47. or software installation At least 128 MB of Random Access Memory RAM of free RAM available after all other programs and OS has been loaded e Active USB port if using USB based hardware key LPT 1 port if using an old style key No ports are required if using software license Software e WinXP Windows2003 Server Vista Windows 2008 Server Win7 Windows 8 8 1 or Windows 2012 Server e Citrix and other multiple user environments that share a common remote installation can also be supported Contact your salesperson for more information 2 1 Prime Recognition Chapter 3 Install PrimeOCR First Information Vista and later OSs Depending on your security settings it may be important for you to run PrimeVerify or PrimeView with Admin rights even if you are not logged in with Admin rights To do this right click on PRVIEW EXE for example and select to run as Administrator If you are not logged in as admin you will asked to do so for this application only PrimeView PrimeVerify Installing PrimeView amp PrimeVerify PrimeOCR should be installed prior to installing Prime View or PrimeVerify When deciding where to install PrimeOCR keep in mind that it is designed to be an OCR server OCR jobs can be submitted to the PrimeOCR engine from PrimeView running on the same PC or running on another PC connected to the PrimeOCR PC via a local area network LAN Multiple LAN based PC s each ru
48. orming and verifying Optical Character Recognition OCR OCR is performed by PrimeOCR a highly accurate software recognition engine that utilizes Voting technology to produce significantly fewer errors than the best conventional OCR products PrimeView and PrimeVerify are end user applications for image viewing page zoning character recognition and verification The scaleable architecture of these products allows them to function seamlessly in either a stand alone or networked imaging environment One user can run all applications on the same PC or each product can be loaded onto a separate PC sharing data over the network For example one PC dedicated to image preparation can run PrimeView A second designated as an OCR server can run PrimeOCR And a third used for OCR verification can run PrimeVerify This modular design also allows multiple copies of PrimeView PrimeVerify to access the same PrimeOCR server maximizing your OCR engine utilization and investment Prime View allows users to prepare image jobs for processing by PrimeOCR OCR parameters are set through Prime View as well as the region s of the page if not the full page to be processed Regions are created graphically by drawing a rectangle around the area of the page to be recognized Users can save all of the OCR parameters and regions drawn into an image Template for subsequent use Templates are a powerful feature allowing the information used in
49. pen File dialog box will appear allowing you to scroll through the directories on your system to find the Template file to open To search using the Template file type supported by Prime View use the List Files of Type drop down list on the Open File dialog box Select the OK button to open the file you have chosen The PrimeView title bar will now show the name of the open Template and all zone information contained in the template file will be loaded 5 7 Prime Recognition PrimeView PrimeVerify Configure Image Preprocessing for OCR Warning Only select image processing steps that you know will help the image Many image processing steps can harm the image if they are not relevant to the image they are improperly configured etc Select Zoning Options 5 8 PrimeOCR offers optional functionality which preprocesses images before OCR with powerful algorithms for example deskew line removal registration and so on PrimeOCR uses ScanFix from TMSSequioa to perform these steps along with its own algorithms The functionality of each function is exactly that defined by ScanFix therefore you may consult ScanFix documentation or review the PRIMAGE INI documentation in Chapter 3 of the PrimeOCR Access Guide Notes e You may select multiple processing steps at one time e Selecting a function in PrimeView merely turns on the function The configuration of the preprocessing function is controlled by the
50. rimeOCR engine We encourage you to read Chapter 4 of the PrimeOCR Access Guide for more information on Lexical Plus Accuracy Improvement Through its voting technology PrimeOCR can provide up to 6 levels of accuracy improvement The level number in this dropdown list represents the number of OCR engines PrimeOCR will use to recognize text Every additional engine increases accuracy but also slows down the recognition process For most zones we recommend using the highest accuracy level available Selected zones may not be as accuracy sensitive and can use a lower accuracy level to increase speed Approximate accuracy and speed rates for each level are e Level 1 provides conventional OCR accuracy and speed e Level 2 Provides 15 better OCR accuracy at roughly 2 1 times slower speed than conventional OCR e Level 3 Provides 58 better OCR accuracy at roughly 3 1 times slower speed than conventional OCR e Level 4 Provides 74 better OCR accuracy at roughly 5 8 times slower speed than conventional OCR e Level 5 Provides 76 better OCR accuracy at roughly 7 1 times slower speed than conventional OCR e Level 6 Provides 80 better OCR accuracy at roughly 8 0 times slower speed than conventional OCR When you submit an image for OCR all of the zone information the number location and settings for each zone is sent to PrimeOCR for processing If you want to use this information on a subsequent image see th
51. screen view The top section called the image display area will show the original image used by PrimeOCR to generate the Output file The bottom section called the edit display area will contain the recognized text in editable form The dual screen view allows users to quickly compare recognized text with the text as it appears on the original image This combined with the PrimeVerify proofreading features described below makes for efficient and comprehensive manual error correction To proofread PrimeOCR results you will typically perform the following steps e Open an Output File Choose and display both the image and OCR results from a PrimeOCR job e Make Image Display Adjustments optional Change how the image is displayed for easier viewing e Make Text Display Adjustments optional Change the font size of text in the edit display for easier proofreading e Highlight Low Confidence Characters optional Low Confidence characters marked by PrimeOCR are highlighted in red using a user defined confidence threshold e Text and Image Navigation optional Move through the text using keystrokes or mouse clicks to locate the characters you wish to edit e Edit Text optional Select and replace characters words or whole lines using keyboard commands e Save the Output File optional Store intermediate editing results for later completion e Export Text optional When you are done proofreading the OCR output
52. sing only a few keystrokes The remainder of this chapter describes each of the above steps in greater detail If no image file is loaded the Path File Name will say none Press the Enter Key click the Load Image button or choose Load Image from the VIEW menu to bring up the Open File dialog box From here you can scroll through the directories on your system to find the image file to open PrimeView supports a variety of image file formats including TIFF JPEG and PCX TIFF files can be uncompressed Group 3 Group 3 5 1 Prime Recognition Image Display Adjustments 5 2 PrimeView PrimeVerify Fax or Group 4 multipage TIFF including bitonal color and grayscale images Image resolutions supported include 200 240 300 400 and 600 DPI as well as standard Fax To search using file types supported by PrimeView use the List Files of Type drop down list on the Open File dialog box Select the OK button to open the file you have chosen The blank page on the right will now show the open image and the Image File Name and Path on the left will reflect the file you have opened Load Next Previous Image This menu command will automatically load the next previous image file in the directory Move to ExceptDirX This menu command will move the TIF file along with any associated PTM PRO and TXT file to the ExceptDirX subdirectory creating subdirectory if it does not already exist Intended
53. st the display 7 1 Prime Recognition Chapter 8 Command Line Start Up Processing a List of Files PrimeView PrimeVerify Programming Considerations Some users may wish to integrate Prime View or PrimeVerify into their application programmatically Each program offers several levels of programming integration You may startup either Prime View or PrimeVerify using a command line The syntax is the executable name followed by a space followed by the full path to the target file For example C PRIMEV PRVIEW EXE C PRDEV TEST1 TIF For PrimeView the appropriate target file is an image For PrimeVerify the appropriate target is a PRO file You can process an arbitrary list of files by creating an ASCII format text file that has a full path to each file one per line This could be a list of images for PrimeView or a list of PRO files for PrimeVerify When you go to load an image into PrimeView or open a PRO file in PrimeVerify choose this text file instead Use F3 to proceed to the next image in Prime View use the Autoprocessing option to proceed to the next PRO file in PrimeVerify 8 1 Prime Recognition Chapter 9 PrimeView PrimeVerify InputAccel Version A version of PrimeVerify is available for the InputAccel imaging system by EMC Prime Recognition is a development partner of EMC PrimeVerify and PrimeOCR has been certified by EMC to work within InputAccel as a native application This version is bas
54. t check box and add the target characters one per line to the SKIPCHAR INI file in your installation directory Capital Non Capital Words Any character in a word that is capitalized or not capitalized may be skipped This lets you for example focus your verification on proper names or the opposite ignore proper names Working with Character Confidence Levels PrimeOCR uses a character ranking system to help identify text that may not have been interpreted correctly Characters with a low ranking were more difficult for the OCR engine to identify and are therefore more likely to be incorrect Similarly characters that were easy to identify have a high ranking and a higher probability of matching the characters on the original image The ranking system used by PrimeOCR is divided into 9 Confidence Levels with 9 being the highest ranking and 1 being the lowest You can highlight characters in the edit display area 6 4 Prime Recognition Image Statistics PrimeView PrimeVerify based upon their confidence level ranking through the Text Review Options Confidence menu command Image Statistics Select the Image Statistics command from the IMAGE menu to see confidence level ranking for all characters in the current file The meaning of each field is described below e Confidence Level Shows one of the 9 ranks that a character can have The ranking is assigned by PrimeOCR Confidence Characters Cumulative e C
55. tems administrator for the location of all PrimeOCR output Open File dialog box Choose Open PRO File from the FILE menu to bring up the Open File dialog box From here you can scroll through the directories on your system to find the Output file to open To search using the file type supported by PrimeOCR e g PRO use the List Files of Type drop down list on the Open File dialog box Select the OK button to open the file you have chosen The image display area on the top portion of your screen will now show the image associated with this Output and the edit display area on the bottom portion of the screen will show the recognized text If the image associated with this Output file cannot be found you will be asked to locate the Image file Locating an Image File The location of the image file is set when the image is first opened in PrimeView The path to the image is added to the Job file PrimeOCR processes and also included in the Output file read by PrimeVerify If the image file has been moved to another location Prime Verify will not be able to find the image based upon the original path There are two opportunities within PrimeVerify to specify the new image file location The first comes when you initially try to open an Output file where the associated image path is incorrect A warning message to that affect appears and then an Open File dialog box is presented allowing you to specify the new image fil
56. the output file Many users find that a 15 or 20 setting decrease reported font sizes by 20 works well here This setting is only relevant for output formats which include point size reporting such as RTF PDF or PRO ASCH Prime Recognition PrimeView PrimeVerify Wrapped Paragraphs If checked it removes the hard carriage return from the end of each line of text except where the end of a paragraph is sensed This option will apply to both ASCII and FASCII formats UTF Encoding If checked the character encoding for the output file will be UTF There is further choice of UTF 8 or UTF 16 what some will call just plain UTF encoding Page Delimiter If any set of characters is entered in this field then this set of characters will be added to the bottom of each page on a separate line HTML PDF Wrapped Paragraphs If checked it removes the hard carriage return from the end of each line of text except where the end of a paragraph is sensed Default Font Type If checked the font reported by PrimeOCR will not be inserted into the HTML file forcing the HTML viewer when displaying the file to use its default font type Insert Page Breaks If checked will insert page break characters in the HTML file between pages in a multi page document Many applications that display HTML do not need these characters Suspect Level Only relevant for PDF Normal format A word with one or more characters w
57. the word PrimeVerify will read multiple page PRO files Typically these files have been created by OCR ing a multiple page TIFF file The Page menu item offers several commands to move between pages in a multiple page image file Moving between Pages To move between pages select Next Page Previous Page or Go to Page from the PAGE menu Note that any global operations such as Find or Image Statistics apply only to the current page not to all pages in the full multipage document Auto Next Page If the user presses the TAB key to go to the next suspicious character after the last suspicious character then the next page in a multiple page PRO file is automatically opened PrimeVerify supplies two menu commands for quickly locating text in the edit display area Find Choose Find from the EDIT menu to display the Find dialog box Find What Match Case Cancel Enter the text you want to locate in the Find What field and whether the search should be Case Sensitive by selecting the Match Case checkbox If the checkbox is checked PrimeVerify will only display a match if it has the exact upper lower case attributes of the text you entered in the Find field If unchecked PrimeVerify will ignore case restrictions when looking for amatch Match Case does not apply to numerical text Find Next Once a match has been found subsequent searches for the same text can be performed using the Find Next comma
58. to be used in conjunction with View Load Next Previous Image commands Useful to quickly QA images templates and reject bad image templates for later exception processing Multiple Page TIFF Files If the image opened is a multiple page TIFF file then a Page entry box is shown along a page scroll bar and Next Page Previous Page menu commands Any of these commands may be used to move between pages in a multipage tiff file For example if you type 6 into the Page entry box PrimeView will display page 6 of the image file The initial display settings for an image may make viewing the image difficult Maximizing the Prime View Window Once image is opened it is shown in the image display area To enlarge the image display area for better viewing use the Maximize button on the upper right corner of the PrimeView window This will expand the window to fit your entire screen Zooming To Full Screen To have the image fill the entire width of the image display area use the Zoom To Full Screen command from the VIEW menu If it is still difficult to view individual characters or words in this mode you will want to enlarge the image using Prime View s Zoom In feature Zooming In and Out on an Image The Zoom In command on the VIEW menu will enlarge the image in predefined increments Use the Zoom Out command on the VIEW menu to shrink the image by the same increments At any time you can return to full width viewing
59. to the right of the cursor Pressing the Backspace key will remove the character to the left of the cursor The Cut command does not apply to unselected text Replacing Text Replace is actually a combination of removing selected text and inserting new text You can perform a manual replace by first selecting text and then typing new text PrimeVerify will delete the selected text and insert the new text as you type it To replace text automatically choose the Replace command from the EDIT menu The Replace dialog box will appear Replace Find What fo Find Net Replace With Cancel Match Case Replace All Enter the text to search for in the Find What field Enter the text to be inserted in its place in the Replace With field You can limit the replace operation to exact text matches using the Match Case field see Find above Choose either the Replace or Replace button to start the replace Prime Recognition Special Symbols Special characters such as the copyright symbol or international characters can be inserted by holding the ALT key down while typing the ANSI decimal value of the symbol e g 169 for Saving the Output File Exporting Text PrimeView PrimeVerify Replace All Choosing Replace All will tell PrimeVerify to perform replacements without asking for verification If a match is found the text will be deleted and replaced with the text you specified
60. ts are stored as a straight unformatted ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange text file If zones were defined they are separated in the output by two blank lines FASCH Text output is padded with spaces to mirror the layout of the text on the original image If zones were defined they are separated in the output by two blank lines Comma Delimited An ASCII text file The contents of each zone are reported as plain ASCII with a comma between each zone s output This format will typically be used by forms type applications or reporting data from a table from a Green bar application HTML Format defined by Internet standards Defines a format that can be read natively by browsers Format and character attributes such as font type size bold italic underline etc are maintained Useful for example if you wish to have data published directly to a web site PrimeOCR This is an internal PrimeOCR format PRO In addition to recognized text it stores line word and character coordinated as well as character confidence levels Select this format if you are going to use PrimeVerify to edit OCR results PDF Format defined by Adobe Three versions of PDF are supported e Normal Includes formatted text plus image zones if any plus image snippets for low confidence words e Image Only Only image is included in output file no text is included if this format is of interest PrimeZon
61. u cancel the Template File Save no OCR will be performed Otherwise the image and its corresponding template will be submitted for OCR as described in the section entitled Performing OCR Save Template As To manually save zoning information choose Save Template As from the FILE menu PrimeView will bring up the Save File As dialog box and provide a default name for the template file You can change the name of the file as desired and if no extension is supplied Prime View will automatically add the template file extension for you After choosing OK to accept the Template file name PrimeView will save all of the zone information including the number of zones their location and all settings for each zone to this file The Prime View title bar will now show the name of the template just saved Save Template If Save Template is chosen for a template that is already open Prime View will automatically save the latest zone changes to that file otherwise it will bring up the Save Template As dialog box New Template If you wish to remove the current Template or start with a blank Template choose New Template from the FILE menu If changes have been made to the current template PrimeView will ask you to save the template before closing Once closed the Template name will be removed from the PrimeView title bar Open Template To apply a saved Zone Template to another image choose Open Template from the FILE menu The O

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