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# CharacterRecognitionVariants Object (ICharacterRecognitionVariants Interface)

This object is a collection of recognition variants for a single character. The collection contains recognition variants ranked from the best to the worst. 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 collection is accessible via the [CharParams](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/charparams) object.

* The indexing of ABBYY FineReader Engine collections starts with 0.
* The foreach statement in C# (for each in Visual Basic .NET) can be used to manipulate the collection.

## 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.                             |
| Count                                                                                                                 | [int](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties), read-only                                                                                                                                   | Stores the number of elements in the collection.       |
| [Element](/fine-reader/engine/visual-components-reference/supplementary-objects/spellwordcollection/element-property) | [CharacterRecognitionVariant](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/characterrecognitionvariant), [read-only](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties#readonly_properties) | Provides access to a single element of the collection. |

## Methods

| Name                                                                                                          | Description                                            |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| [Item](/fine-reader/engine/visual-components-reference/supplementary-objects/spellwordcollection/item-method) | Provides access to a single element of the collection. |

## Related objects

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/abbyy/6udH-pkk8zkVafYH/images/fine-reader/engine/characterrecognitionvariants.gif?s=c9cec7501a8763dc1b46044ddfaee446" alt="CharacterRecognitionVariants" width="392" height="98" data-path="images/fine-reader/engine/characterrecognitionvariants.gif" />[](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/charparams#characterrecognitionvariants)[](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/charparams#selectedcharacterrecognitionvariant)[](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/characterrecognitionvariant)[](/fine-reader/engine/visual-components-reference/supplementary-objects/spellwordcollection/element-property)[](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/charparams)

[Object Diagram](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/object-diagram)

## See also

[CharParams](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/charparams#characterrecognitionvariants)

[CharacterRecognitionVariant](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/characterrecognitionvariant)

[WordRecognitionVariants](/fine-reader/engine/api-reference/text-related-objects/wordrecognitionvariants)

[Using Voting API](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/using-voting-api)

[Working with Collections](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-collections)

[Working with Properties](/fine-reader/engine/guided-tour/advanced-techniques/programming-aspects/working-with-properties)