Detect Best Settings dialog box

This dialog box allows you to test how the component detects barcodes using the specified options and to detect the optimal preprocessing options.

The dialog box contains a preview pane where the image is displayed. You can draw blocks around each barcode on the displayed image or get these blocks automatically.

Ribbon buttons

Buttons at the top-left of this dialog box are used for previewing input images.

Button	Description
	This section is used for zooming the image in/out.
	Use these buttons to set up image alignment: fit to screen, fit to width, fit to height.
	Use this button to enter selection mode in which you can select one or more blocks.
	Use this button to enter creation mode in which you can create new blocks. This button is selected by default when the dialog is opened.
	Use this button to remove the selected blocks.

Options

Option	Description
Image	This group allows you to select an image and a page for displaying in the preview pane.
Image file	Enter the path to the image file manually or select the file using the button.
Page	Enter the page number in this text box manually or select from the drop down list. You can also use and navigation buttons for page selection. These buttons are enabled only if the document contains more than one page.
Preview	This group of setting allows you to set how the image will be displayed in the preview pane. Select one of the options: Original image: the original image is previewed. When this option is selected, the Detect barcodes button is disabled because the barcodes are always detected by the component after deskewing of the image and conversion to Black&White. Therefore, this option is used mainly for reference; for example, to compare the original image with the deskewed image to see how much the barcodes are shifted from the original position after preprocessing and how much the zone bound should be adjusted. Deskewed B&W image: the original image will be displayed with applied deskewing and conversion to Black&White. These changes are applied to any image by default prior to the barcode detection when the preprocessing is not used. Preprocessed image: the image is displayed with the enhancement filters applied which are specified in the Advanced tab. If you specified different minimum and maximum values for some enhancement filter, the component will display image with the minimum value used for preprocessing. The set of enhancement filters applied during preprocessing and the direction in which they are applied depends on selection made between the sub-options: Horizontally oriented barcodes Vertically oriented barcodes 2D barcodes If the selection is Horizontally or Vertically oriented barcodes, then directional enhancement filters (specified in the Advanced tab) are applied in the corresponding direction. If the selection is 2D barcodes, then undirected enhancement filters are applied.
Detect barcodes	Click this button to detect barcodes on the displayed image. The component will draw a block around each recognized barcode on the preview pane and assign number for each block automatically. If some barcode is not recognized by the component, you can draw a block around this barcode manually.
Block	Select one of the blocks from the drop down list to see the detected value of the corresponding barcode.
Detected value	This text box displays the value of a barcode from the selected block.
Detected type	This text box displays the type of a barcode from the selected block.
Expected value	Enter the expected value of a barcode in this text box if the barcode was recognized improperly.
Detect preprocessing options	Click this button to detect the best combination of preprocessing filters for the barcode recognition. The component will compare the Detected value and the Expected value and select the best preprocessing options to get the Expected value as a recognition result. The search is made within all possible combinations corresponding to the configured Enhanced barcode detection settings. When you click this button, the component displays the progress bar which shows the progress of preprocessing options detection. If the component does not find any combination that result in recognizing all selected barcodes on those levels, the component will display the corresponding message. When the component detects the best preprocessing options, the Detected Preprocessing Options dialog box opens.

The Cancel button allows you to cancel the detection of preprocessing options. This may be reasonable in case when the barcodes are hardly readable and the component spends too much time for detection of the best preprocessing options.