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FlexiLayouts and classifiers have a variety of user-defined settings, including pre-recognition settings such as recognition languages, text type, pre-recognition modes, and areas. Selecting the right pre-recognition settings will help you create FlexiLayouts and classifiers that are well-suited for processing your documents. You can change pre-recognition settings in the Pre-recognition Properties dialog box. To open this dialog box, use one of the following ways:
  • Click Properties… on the FlexiLayout or Classifier menu or on the shortcut menu of the FlexiLayout or classifier.
  • Click the Advanced Pre-recognition Properties… button on the General tab of the properties dialog box of the FlexiLayout or classifier.
The following options are available in the Pre-recognition Properties dialog box.

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General tab

Name – The method used for printing the text on the documents. Determine the text type and evaluate its quality, and then select one of the following:
  • Typographic
  • Matrix printer
  • Typewriter
Pre-recognition mode – The mode used to pre-recognize the documents.

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Languages tab

Text languages – The languages used in the documents. You can select one or several languages from the dropdown list. For the full list of available languages, see OCR languages supported in ABBYY FlexiLayout™ Studio. User dictionaries – This group of options lets you add user dictionaries. User dictionaries improve recognition quality by supplementing built-in dictionaries with specialized vocabulary, abbreviations, company names, and so on.

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Advanced tab

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Barcodes

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CJK

Contains options for processing CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) languages. Separated furigana mode – Select this option to improve recognition quality when processing Japanese text with furigana (pronunciation aids).

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NER recognition

Extract named entities – Select this option to extract meaningful information from a field or field group using NLP methods.
This option is only available for licenses that include an NLP module.

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Vertical text extraction

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Pre-recognition area

The area to be pre-recognized. You can specify the position of the pre-recognition area relative to the page edges.

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User pattern

Adds a user pattern in PTN or FBT format. Use a user pattern if your documents contain non-standard fonts and characters.