Operation Manual
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Teaching Mode
To improve the recognition results, you can use Readiris' Teaching Mode. By means of teaching you can
train the recognition system on fonts and character shapes, and correct the OCR results if necessary.
During the teaching process, any characters the recognition system isn't sure of are displayed in a preview
window, in combination with the word in which they were spotted and the result suggested by Readiris.
1
A character Readiris isn't sure of.
2
The word in which the character was
spotted.
3
The solution how Readiris suggests to
recognize it.
Teaching can substantially enhance the accuracy of the recognition system and is particularly useful when
recognizing distorted, defaced forms. Teaching can also be used to train Readiris on special symbols it is
unable to recognize initially, such as mathematical and scientific symbols and dingbats.
ATTENTION: teaching occurs during recognition. The teaching results are temporarily stored in the
computer memory, for the duration of the recognition. Readiris will no longer display the trained characters
when OCRing the rest of the document. When a new document is OCRed, the teaching results are erased.
To save teaching results permanently, use the Teaching Mode in combination with a font dictionary.
TIP: in case the recognition results still need to be edited afterwards, you can use the Text Corrector.
See the topic Editing the Recognized Documents for more information.
Accessing the Teaching Options
Click Advanced Settings on the Home tab.
Or click the expansion arrow in the Acquire group.
Click the Teaching mode tab.
Check the Teaching Mode box.