Identifying medical claim forms by using Autofield

Datacap Medical Claims uses Autofield in addition to fingerprint matching to recognize medical claim pages and fields.

While Datacap compares fingerprint images to a library of fingerprints for known page types, Autofield works by fitting pixels in an image to a particular zone. As a consequence, changing a zone by moving it by just a few pixels makes scanned medical claims unrecognizable to Medical Claims.

Adding fields to pages in the DCO affects the accuracy of Autofield unless steps are taken so that Autofield knows how to handle them.

Adding a field to a page

In addition, when adding fields to a page, the new fields will show up in the DCO in the exact order you arrange them in the hierarchy. However, these fields will be added to the end of the setup.xml file in the order that they are created. After adding any new fields to a page, you need to manually edit the setup.xml to put the fields in the correct order.

Adding a field that is not under a page

When you add a field to the DCO that you do not want to be recognized as a field on any page, you need to add the Autofield variable to the new field and set its value to -1.