### Standard OCR Tool Parameters

##### Font Selection

Allows you to select the font to use, to create a new font, or to edit the current font library. New fonts are created from existing font libraries.

- Current Font: Select the font to use.

- Font Editor...: Start the Font Editor. The Font Editor allows you to view character sets, remove trained samples, display user-defined characters, and more. See the Font Editor section for details.

- New Font...: New Fonts can be made based on existing default fonts. Press the [New Font...] button, select the font template you want to base on, and give the new font a name. See the Add/Remove Fonts section for instructions on how to add and remove user fonts.

##### Confidence

- Confidence: Allows you to specify the minimum level of character identification confidence required before a character will be read and output. (Range: 0.0 to 1.0)

##### Character Selection

Allows you to specify the width and height of a character (in pixels) or use Auto Size. Disable Auto Size for more reliable reading.

- Auto Size: Allows you to specify the width and height of a character (in pixels) or use Auto Size. Disable Auto Size for more reliable reading.

- Width: Specifies the character width (in pixels) when Auto Size is disabled. (Range: 10-200)

- Height: Specifies the character height (in pixels) when Auto Size is disabled. (Range: 10-200)

- Connection Strength: Helps correct for characters that are either touching or are formed by individual dots such as those produced by a dot peen stylus or inkjet printing.
  This parameter ranges from -3 (AutoVISION will search for characters that are underprinted or not touching) to 3 (AutoVISION will search for characters that are overprinted or touching).
  When set to 0, AutoVISION does not perform any pre-processing (multiple passes of an "erode" function for -3, -2, and -1 or multiple passes of a "dilate" function for 1, 2, and 3), so processing time will be decreased.

##### Match String

- Match String: Allows you to specify the string that must be matched for the OCR Tool to pass. See the OCR Tool Match String for details. (up to 254 strings)

##### Image PreProcessing

Makes it easier for the tool to recognize and read characters in an image. See the Image Pre-Processing section for details.