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Using Form Overlay

You can use the component to regularly extract information from a series of documents and fill in a special form with this information.
  1. Design a workflow with a desired capture component, OP OCR as the first process component, Form OVerlay as the second process component and a desired route component.
  2. Configure the capture component.
  3. In the OP OCR component, configure Zone OCR to find and recognize the information that you need. The result of recognition will be passed to the next component in form of RRTs. The RRTs may look like this ~FRO::%name%.PageNumber~, ~FRO::%address%.PageNumber~.
  4. In the Form Overlay component, use a blank form file as a template file.
  5. Use the RRTs from OP OCR to define the fields to be placed on the template document. Select the position of each field in the Select Zone dialog box so that it exactly matches the corresponding blank on the form.
  6. Specify the font properties for each field.
  7. Configure the route component.
  8. Start the process.
In this scenario the data is extracted from the input documents and passed to the Form Overlay component as named RRTs. The text from each RRT is, then, placed on the template form and the form is passed to the further processing.