Chapter 14: SureDotOCR

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This chapter explains how to perform optical character recognition (OCR) on dot matrix text with the MIL SureDotOCR module. This module contains MIL functions prefixed with Mdmr.

• MIL SureDotOCR module
• Steps to read dot-matrix strings from an image
• Basic concepts for the MIL SureDotOCR module
• Fonts
• • Importing and exporting dot-matrix fonts
  • • Content of SureDotOCR font files
  • Console-based font utilities
  • Dot-matrices in fonts and strings to read should be the same
  • Delete, control, and inquire about fonts and characters
  • Programmatically managing fonts and characters
• String models
• • Required settings
  • • Dot diameter
    • String box dimensions
    • Maximum and minimum number of characters
  • Optional settings
  • • Foreground
    • Intensity and contrast
    • Acceptance and certainty
    • Rank
    • Number of strings to read
    • Space
    • String angle
    • Italic angle
  • Constraining string model positions with permitted characters
  • • Reading space
    • Default permitted characters, and overriding them
    • General controls for the different positions in the string model
    • Managing the different string model positions (implicit or explicitly constrained)
  • Recommended conditions for optimal string reading
  • • Reading a partial string
    • Reading only one line of a string with multiple lines
    • Reading strings with dissimilar qualities
• Results and annotations
• • Results
  • • Strings and formatted strings
    • Typical results to retrieve
    • Size of string results
    • Positional and dimensional results
    • Recommendations to improve results
  • Annotations
  • Timeout or stop
• SureDotOCR example