> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.abbyy.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # CharacterRecognitionVariant Object (ICharacterRecognitionVariant Interface) This object represents the variant of a character recognition. The object provides access to the variant itself and its confidence, probability that a character is written with a Serif font, and the information whether the character is superscript or subscript. It is an element of the [CharacterRecognitionVariants](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/characterrecognitionvariants) collection. You can select the best recognition variant for a character by voting between the variants. See [Using Voting API](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/using-voting-api) for details. The Voting API is not available for handwritten/handprinted texts recognition. ## Properties | Name | Type | Description | | ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Application | [Engine](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/engine-object-iengine-interface), [read-only](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties#readonly_properties) | Returns the Engine object. | | Character | [BSTR](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties), read-only | Returns the variant of a character recognition. | | CharConfidence | [int](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties), read-only | Stores the value of recognition confidence for this variant of character recognition. Confidence estimates the accuracy of a recognition variant. It should not be understood as a general recognition quality measure: the only safe use of confidence is for comparing recognition variants of the same character. The characters extracted from the source PDF file without recognition have confidence set to 55. | | IsSubscript | [VARIANT\_BOOL](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties), read-only | Specifies whether the character is subscript. | | IsSuperscript | [VARIANT\_BOOL](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties), read-only | Specifies whether the character is superscript. | | SerifProbability | [int](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties), read-only | The value of this property specifies probability that a character is written in a Serif font. It is in the range from 0 to 100, and 255 corresponds to the fact that the probability is undefined. | ## Related objects CharacterRecognitionVariant[](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/charparams#characterrecognitionvariants)[](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/charparams#selectedcharacterrecognitionvariant)[](/fine-reader/engine/visual-components-reference/supplementary-objects/spellwordcollection/element-property)[](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/characterrecognitionvariants)[](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/charparams) [Object Diagram](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/object-diagram) ## Output parameter This object is the output parameter of the [Item](/fine-reader/engine/visual-components-reference/supplementary-objects/spellwordcollection/item-method) method of the [CharacterRecognitionVariants](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/characterrecognitionvariants) object. ## See also [CharacterRecognitionVariants](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/characterrecognitionvariants) [WordRecognitionVariant](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/wordrecognitionvariant) [Using Voting API](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/using-voting-api) [Working with Properties](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties)