Identification Tools - Read Text (OCRMax)

The Read Text (OCRMax) Identification Tool is used to read and/or verify a text string within a region, after training and creating user-defined character fonts.

The Read Text (OCRMax) Identification Tool performs Optical Character Recognition (OCR) through a process of segmentation and classification. Segmentation occurs first and uses threshold techniques to identify the areas of the image that appear to contain lines of text. After the text has been segmented into characters, the characters are trained and stored as a font database. Classification occurs during run-time, and is responsible for “reading” any text found after the function performs segmentation. This is done by comparing the images of the segmented characters to the trained characters in the font.