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Example Value

Result

137

Threshold used

8.20 (px)

Minimum width found

19.91 (px)

Maximum width found

12.58 (px)

Average width found

8

Number of good regions

175.00 (px)

Total length of good regions

53.00 (px)

Longest good region length

5

Number of narrow regions

72.00 (px)

Total length of narrow regions

20.00 (px)

Longest narrow region length

3

Number of wide regions

87.00 (px)

Total length of wide regions

40.00 (px)

Longest wide region length

7.5.5 Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Tool

Optical character recognition (OCR) is the electronic interpretation of printed text that has been captured by a Vision

Sensor. The OCR tool in the PresencePLUS software is used to train character patterns and their variations into the

Vision Sensor's font library so that the Vision Sensor can recognize character patterns on labels and packages. Each

character pattern is associated with a character ID so that the Sensor is able to identify character strings on a label or

package. For example, you might train different fonts for the letter (S or S) and use the keyboard to associate these

variations with the character ID "S".

Usage

The OCR Vision Sensor tool can be used:
• to ensure that the correct lot or date code is printed on a label or package.
• to ensure that the right labels are placed on the appropriate packages.
• with the Barcode tool to match strings and/or substrings with the human readable text.

Fields

The following are fields on the OCR tool Input tab:

Should I Use OCR or OCV?

on page 229

Decoded String Field

on page 230

Trainer

on page 231

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