8.5

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 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.