User Guide
Automated Forms Processing
Data type checks
Even before submitting data for verification, ABBYY FormReader
6.0 will
check the recognized data against dictionaries and user
databases.
Suppose your questionnaire has a field captioned "Your favourite
brand of cheese". You can create a dictionary of cheese brands and
use it to facilitate recognition. Dictionaries can be created for any
data types to help the program more readily recognize the informa
tion entered into the fields.
ABBYY FormReader 6.0 already includes multilingual dictionar
ies for standard data types ranging from proper names and cities to
currencies and postal codes. Of course it is impossible to cover all
possible areas of human activity, but users can create their own dic
tionaries and associate them with the corresponding fields.
Creating a user's data type and connecting a user's dic
tionary in ABBYY FormReader 6.0 Desktop Edition 6.0.
Adding a data type defined by a regular expression
in ABBYY FormReader 6.0 Desktop Edition.
Together with dictionarydefined data types, FormReader makes
extensive use of regular expressions. Regular expressions describe the
possible combinations of characters and their mutual positions. For
example "c*t" describes all threeletter words staring with a "c" and
ending with a "t" cat, cut, cot, etc.