Bar Codes

The Bar Codes tab specifies whether the selected index field should be populated using a bar code value. Index fields can be populated by either bar code mapping or with a bar code processing script.

Select Map Field to bar code number to designate a physical or logical bar code number to the current field. (For splitting, see Recognition: Bar Codes.) The following options are available for bar code mapping:

• Bar Code X in Document: Maps to the specified bar code number in the document.

• Bar Code X on Page X: Maps to the specified bar code number on a particular page of the document.

• Bar Code X on Batch Separator Sheet: Maps to the specified bar code number on the batch separator sheet.

• Bar Code X on Folder Separator Sheet: Maps to the specified bar code number on the folder separator sheet.

• Bar Code X on Document Separator Sheet: Maps to the specified bar code number on the document separator sheet.

• Bar Code X in Zone Y: Maps to the specified bar code number within a specified zone in the document. This zone can be defined to be anywhere on the document including on a specified page.

  Clicking Define Zones opens the Zone Configuration dialog box, where you can define a new zone.

Under Bar Code Parsing, the following options can be selected:

• Populate field with entire bar code (default): The entire bar code is placed in the index field.

• Populate field with subset of bar code: The value placed in the index field is based on what values you set for Start position and End position. For example, if the start position is 1 and the end position is 4, only the first 4 characters of the bar code would be placed there.

  If the bar codes in question do not contain fixed length values, an unexpected result occurs. See Recognition: Bar Codes for bar code splitting or use scripting.

Use a bar code processing script to extract specific data from bar codes that are inconsistent in length and/or content. Click Open Script Editor to open the Script Editor.

A generic example script is as follows:

public virtual bool DocumentDataFieldValidated(IDocument document, IDataRecord d[...]
{
  try
  {
    if(dataField.Name == "Date Check Field" && dataField.Value != null)
    {
      DateTime minDate = DateTime.Now.Date.AddDays(-10);
      DateTime maxDate = DateTime.Now.Date.AddDays(1);
      DateTime value = (DateTime)dataField.Value;
      if(value < minDate || value >= maxDate)
      {
        dataField.SetValidationAlert("Date is not between 10 days old and 1 day [...]
        return false;
      }
    }
    return valid;
  }
  catch (Exception exception)
  {