RecognitionConfidence Property

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Returns the relative confidence factor reported by the optical character recognition (OCR) engine (on a scale of 0 to 999) after recognizing the specified word. Read-only Integer.

expression.RecognitionConfidence

*expression   * Required. An expression that returns a Word object.

Remarks

A high RecognitionConfidence property value indicates a greater likelihood that the OCR engine has recognized the word without error.

Example

The following example performs OCR on the first page of a document, and then reports the properties, including the recognition confidence factor, of the third recognized word.

Sub TestWord()
  
  Dim miDoc As MODI.Document
  Dim miWord As MODI.Word
  Dim strWordInfo As String
  
  ' Load an existing TIFF file.
  Set miDoc = New MODI.Document
  miDoc.Create "C:\document1.tif"
  
  ' Perform OCR.
  miDoc.Images(0).OCR
  
  ' Retrieve and display word information.
  Set miWord = miDoc.Images(0).Layout.Words(2)
  strWordInfo = _
    "Id: " & miWord.Id & vbCrLf & _
    "Line Id: " & miWord.LineId & vbCrLf & _
    "Region Id: " & miWord.RegionId & vbCrLf & _
    "Font Id: " & miWord.FontId & vbCrLf & _
    "Recognition confidence: " & _
    miWord.RecognitionConfidence & vbCrLf & _
    "Text: " & miWord.Text
  MsgBox strWordInfo, vbInformation + vbOKOnly, _
    "Word Information"
  
  Set miWord = Nothing
  Set miDoc = Nothing

End Sub

Applies to | Word Object