OCR

Recognizes and identifies characters in a binary image. White characters on a black background are supported.

Optionally, a Boolean signal can be selected for the Enable Execution input so that the algorithm is only active if the value of the selected signal is TRUE.

Configuration options

• Model: Choice of OCR model.
• Pattern: Character template with the format in which characters are displayed.
  “!” ignores characters, but not spaces.
  “.” permits any characters, also without spaces.
  “_” stands for a space.
  “d” expects a digit from 0 to 9.
  “#” expects one of the special characters (. / - : =).
  “u” expects a capital letter from A to Z.

Output values

• Count Results: Is incremented when a new result is provided.
• hr: HRESULT error code that outputs the result of the processing.
• Code: Identified characters as a string.
• Last Event: Timestamp of the last result.
• Image: Initial image of the algorithm.
• New Result: (Optional) TRUE if a new result is provided.