Read Text (OCRMax) Identification Tool - Settings Tab

Defines a font database reference for the tool. Select from four predefined fonts (OCRA or OCRB, either white-on-black or black-on-white), or create a Custom font database by training characters (up to eight Custom font databases may be created per job).

• When selecting one of the pre-defined fonts, simply position the tool’s region over the text to be read, and the tool will automatically segment the characters in the region.
• When selecting a Custom font, follow the steps outlined in the Setting Up the Read Text (OCRMax) Identification Tool topic when first building the Custom font database. If an existing Custom font is modified, any other Read Text (OCRMax) tools that are using the same Custom font, will be affected, as well.

Defines the operational mode of the tool: Read (default) or Read/Verify.

• Read: The tool will attempt to read the characters in the region, based on trained instances of the characters.
• Read/Verify: The tool will attempt to first read the characters in the region, based on trained instances of the characters, and then verify that the read characters correspond to the text string specified in the Match String parameter.

Defines the text string that must be correctly matched when in Read/Verify Inspection Mode.

Defines the minimum acceptable match score (0 to 100; default = 80) for each character. Any character with a match score below the Accept Threshold will fail.

Defines the minimum difference required between the match scores of the highest scoring character and the second highest scoring character (0 to 40; default = 0).

Defines whether or not to enable image subsampling, which decreases character resolution to increase the reading speed of the function.

Defines the amount of time, in milliseconds (0 to 30000; default = 5000), that the tool will search for characters before execution is halted and it reports a Fail. Setting the value to 0 will disable the setting and a timeout will not be applied.

Defines whether or not the characters and their character regions will be displayed in the other Application Steps, or just in the Locate Part and Inspect Part steps (by default, this setting is enabled).

Defines where the character labels will be positioned, in relation to the character region: Above Character (default), Right of Character, Below Character or Left of Character.