Fingerprint file creation

Datacap provides two methods for creating fingerprint files, image analysis and full page recognition.

Image analysis: This method scans the page image to identify the composite blackness of different regions of the page. It does fast page identification, but requires that you complete recognition later.
Full page recognition: This method completes optical character recognition to identify the locations of text within the page. The full page recognition method takes longer, especially with pages that include handwritten text. However, this method reduces time from subsequent workflow tasks because the full page recognition results are available for use.

For both methods, Datacap creates two files each time you generate a new fingerprint.

A TIFF file with an image of the page.
A CCO file with the fingerprint information.

If you are using full page recognition, Datacap creates a temporary XML file that is generated during recognition.

Attention: The method that you use for creating library fingerprints must be the same as the method you use to generate runtime fingerprints during page identification.

An XML file (<fingerprint_id>c.xml) with the recognition results.