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Use a Barcode field to detect barcodes on a document and automatically convert the data they encode into alphanumeric format.

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Add a Barcode field

Add a Barcode field in either of these ways:
  • Click a barcode on the document image (barcodes highlight green on hover), or drag a rectangle around it. The new field appears in the data form with an auto-assigned name and barcode type.
  • Click Add Barcode in the toolbar, and then drag a rectangle around the barcode or click it. The decoded string appears as the field value in the data form.
If the auto-assigned name isn’t right, rename the field. Click its name in the data form, or click Field options > Advanced, and then click the field name.

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Add regions to an existing Barcode field

Select the field in the data form, and then click the barcode location on the document image.

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Change the detected barcode type

Vantage assigns a barcode type automatically. Change it when Vantage detects the wrong type, or when a region may contain barcodes of more than one type.
1

Open Field options

Click Field options to the right of the field name.
2

Open the barcode type

Click the barcode type name.
3

Choose the barcode type

Select the appropriate options in the dialog.

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General properties

To change these properties, click Field options > Advanced.

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Barcode type

The Barcode type section of the field settings lists the barcode types Vantage searches for. Excluded types are not recognized. All types are enabled by default except postal barcodes.
If you know which barcode types your documents contain, exclude the others to speed up processing.