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PlanetPress Capture ICR
The term "ICR", which means "Intelligent Character Recognition" is an evolution on the
popularly-known "OCR", which is "Optical Character Recognition". The difference between the
two is easily explained: While OCR can only recognize characters using the finished shape (for
example, in scanned documents and pictures), ICR relies on much more data which is provided
by the Anoto Digital Pen: the path that the pen takes, the exact timing of this path, start and stop
points, etc. This extra information boosts the recognition rates of characters by a wide margin.
It's important to note that both OCR and ICR are relatively loose terms - that is to say, they can
have different specific meanings depending on the technology used, but in their general sense
mean the same thing. When using the term ICR, we use the above definition for convenience.
Note
The PlanetPress Capture ICR engine is only available with PlanetPress Workflow
version 7.5 and higher.
An ICR Workflow
The ICR engine in PlanetPress Workflow is used in conjunction with PlanetPress Capture,
translating the ink from the Anoto Digital Pen into separate characters, or text, that is readable
by the suite. Multiple components are required in order for the ICR to work:
l In PlanetPress Design, a Capture Field Object must be added and the Perform ICR
option must be activated (See the Capture Field page in the PlanetPress Design User
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