### Standard OCR Tool Outputs

The OCR Tool can output the read text information, the reliability of the read characters, and the matching result.

- Status: True/False status of the tool.

- Read Text: Raw decoded text.

- Number of Characters Found: Number of characters located by the tool.

- Matching Status: Matching result when string matching is enabled. (False[0]/True[1])

- Minimum Character Confidence: Minimum confidence between characters read. (0.0 to 1.0)

- Maximum Character Confidence: Maximum confidence between characters read. (0.0 to 1.0)

- Mean Character Confidence: Average confidence of characters read. (0.0 to 1.0)

##### Setup Time Feedback

In Edit mode, the tool will display the status and the read text and it allows you to link outputs to tags within the software's Global Data Service (GDS). Refer to Link Menus for details.

In the image, read text will be drawn, and the detected character area will also be drawn:

If the character reading fails, you can click the failed character on the image to add it to the dictionary and learn it in Edit view.

See the Adding/Removing New Fonts section for details.

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