In the OCR Editor, you can open PDF or TIFF documents and manually
select characters to add to custom dictionaries. You can define each letter, digit, and
symbol in the dictionary.
Recommendation: Capture three to five iterations of the same
character.
You can only capture characters that are vertically oriented. You
cannot capture characters that are oriented at angles, such as 30°.
To use the OCR Editor:
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Click .
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In the OCR Editor, click Add
Drawing
and open a PDF or TIFF
file.
If the file has an existing dictionary, SOLIDWORKS Inspection
asks if you want to load the existing dictionary with previously captured
characters.
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Click Extract
.
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In the document, box-select a character to define.
The character appears in the Extraction PropertyManager and the Box
Characteristics pane.
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In the Box Characteristics
pane, for any cell that is red, enter a value for the character.
The cells are highlighted in red until you assign a value and
SOLIDWORKS Inspection can precisely adjust the captured zone in the Extraction pane.
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Repeat steps 3 through 5 for all characters you need to
define.
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Click Save
.
You can save this as a new OCR dictionary (.traineddata) and use it for the current project
or share it with other users. You can add the custom dictionary to a project in
the OCR Project Options.