Locators, Basic concept of locators – Kofax Getting Started with Ascent Xtrata Pro User Manual

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Figure 4-9. Assigning a Formatter to a Table Column

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Click Close to save the settings and close the dialog box.

Locators

Locators are engines that implement algorithms for identifying items extracted from
the document. A locator returns all alternatives in a list, sorted by their relevance.

The list of locators contains an additional type, the evaluators. Evaluators, in contrast
to locators, always work on the results of locators and do not retrieve the data from
the document.

Basic Concept of Locators

Ascent Xtrata Pro comes with a set of standard locators. Besides the standard
locators, three predefined group locators are included:

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