Question

What is ICR?

Answer

ICR is Intelligent Character Recognition. ICR is an extended technology of optical character recognition (OCR). While the OCR technology is designed to extract machine-printed characters, the ICR technology is capable of recognizing handprinted characters written as individual characters in areas/zones. Example of a form containing handprinted characters:

In FineReader Engine and Cloud OCR SDK, the handprinted text areas/zones need to be explicitly specified via the API. In FlexiCapture SDK, the handprinted text type can be assigned to automatically detected text fields.

Note:

• In most cases, the ICR technology is linked to Field Level/Zonal Recognition and forms processing.
• To enhance the ICR recognition accuracy, it is recommended to use regular expressions, dictionaries, or database lookups.