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Properties of elements are specified in the Properties dialog box of the element or in the Properties pane. To open the Properties dialog box, right-click an element and click Properties on the shortcut menu. After the FlexiLayout has been applied, you can also open the properties dialog box by double-clicking an element in the hypotheses tree. All properties of an element other than its name and comment serve to describe the object that needs to be found (the object represented by the element), that is, they describe its properties and search area.

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General properties

These properties do not depend on the type of element and are specified on the General tab.

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Geometrical properties

These properties describe the geometrical features of an object. They are specified on the tab which names the type of the element. Each type of element has its own set of geometrical properties. For details, see the section where the corresponding element is described.

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Search area properties

These properties describe the search area. They are specified on the Search Constraints tab. For the Currency, Date, Phone, Character String, Static Text, and Paragraph elements, vertical text recognition is additionally available.

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Relative search area properties

These properties define the search area of an object relative to other elements. They are independent of the element type and are specified on the Relations tab.

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Additional search constraints

These properties are specified on the Advanced tab and are checked during and after the search.

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Element fields

An element field is a typed variable that belongs to an element. Element fields are defined on the Advanced tab. For more information, see User-defined properties.

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Copy properties between elements

You can open several properties dialog boxes of elements at a time. This makes it possible to copy the properties of one element to another, but only properties that are inherent to the target element (so you cannot, for example, copy the Max width property to a Static Text element). You can also copy the value of an object’s property from the Properties dialog box and paste this value to the properties dialog box of an element.