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Guide). This must be either a Multi-Area Field or a Text Field.
l The Capture Fields Processor must have the Perform ICR Recognition option checked,
and language needs to be selected.
l Once the ICR data is available, do something with it. This is done by reading the ICR data
that is available in the metadata generated by the Get Capture Document task.
l The metadata is also readable by the Capture Condition task, including the captured text
and the reliability of this text.
The Workflow as such is the following:
l A Capture field is setup for ICR in a PlanetPress Design document.
l The document is sent to PlanetPress Production
l The Capture Field Generator is used to produce one or more print-outs using this
document.
l The physical sheets are written on using an Anoto Digital Pen
l The pen is docked and the data is sent to PlanetPress Production
l The pen data goes through the Capture Field Processor, where the Capture Field ink is
sent through the ICR engine.
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The captured ICR data is retrieved with the document using the Get Capture Document
task.
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Conditions are applied if necessary with the Capture Condition task.
Warning
ICR, just like OCR, has its limitations. Please refer to the PlanetPress Capture ICR Best
Practices page for more information.
Terminology and Definitions
In regards to our ICR technology specifically, the following terminology applies:
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ICR: "Intelligent Character Recognition", or the engine that will read the pen data and
attempt to recognize the text written using the pen itself. The ICR engine uses the path of
the pen, its movement speed as well as the overall shape of each character to determine
which character was written.
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