What does developer have to do to enable indexing with OCR technology?

With version 6.5 of IMiS/Scan++ and IMiS/View++ clients we presented new feature called fast indexing. It is using integrated OCR technology to index documents faster. Indexing is input of metadata in DMS.

Indexing mode is activated everytime users opens image with ++ cllient. If indexing mode is on IDX icon in toolbar is framed as shown in picture below.

By using OCR and LSX technology OCR result is immediatelly inserted in Lotus Notes document field. User just needs to select region on scanned image and Lotus Notes field from pop up menu as shown in picture below. Using LSX technology OCR-ed region is immediatelly inserted in selected field.

But how do we know which field is for i.e. Total Value? Developers just need to create field called "IMiSIndexSchema" in doc form and put simple XML in it. For example:

"<Invoice name=\"Invoice\">" +
" <stRac name=\"Number\" type=\"string\"/>" +
" <dtRac name=\"Date\" type=\"string\"/>" +
" <znesek name=\"Total\" type=\"string\"/>" +
" <dtValuta name=\"Payment date\" type=\"string\"/>" +
"</Invoice>"

So in the case of Total OCR-ed value will be inserted in field named znesek. With this simple XML and using formula language or LotusScript we can dinamically create pop up menu for indexing and every entry in this pop up menu represents one field in Lotus Notes document.

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