### IntelliText OCR Tool Parameters

##### Font Selection

- 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.

- 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.

##### Character Selection

Allows you to specify character requirements in multiple ways – Confidence, Character Polarity, Min./Max. Height, and Min./Max. Width.

- 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 Polarity: Allows you so specify Dark Characters – black characters on a white background – and Light Characters – white characters on a black background.

- Min./Max. Height: Allows you to configure the minimum and maximum character height limits. (Range: 10 to 200)

- Min./Max. Width: Allows you to configure the minimum and maximum character width limits. (Range: 1 to 200)

- Scaling Factor: If a symbol is very large or very small, adjust Scaling Factor to make the character height 30 pixels tall – the best height for the algorithm. For example, if a character is 60 pixels tall, set Scaling Factor to 0.5. See the Scaling Factor section for details.

##### 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 Binarization

- Image Binarization: Converts grayscale images to black and white (binary) to optimize the readability of poorly segmented characters.

- Binarization Mean Factor: Sets the average coefficient for binarization. This can be set when the binarization threshold mode is the [Fixed Template] method. (Range: 0.0 to 1.0)

- Binarization Dynamic Range: Sets the dynamic range for binarization. This can be set when the binarization threshold mode is the [Fixed Template] method. (Range: 0.0 to 1.0)
  See the Image Binarization section for details on how to adjust each parameter.

##### Image PreProcessing

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