Extracting addresses

The program can extract addresses printed on invoices. At the time of this writing, the address must have a certain format in order for the program to interpret it:

1. First there must be a line that always contains specific words that can be specified as titles.

   In our instructions below, this is defined as the headerline field profile.

2. Then there must be some rows containing the address.

   Below, these are line1, line2, and cityline.

3. A last line must always mark the end of the address, and you must be able to find this last line using a DCL expression (which you must supply yourself).

   Below, the DCL expression is in a file named postaladdress.dcl.

Example

Your company has offices in different locations but centralized invoice processing. You want to extract the address that the invoice was sent to in order to see which office received it. All addresses begin with the company’s name. Compare the example with the description above and the instructions further below.

ExampleCompany Inc.

Any Dept.

Other Street 234

Other City, XX 23456

To extract an address

1. Create a field profile for each line in the address. The title of the first field profile (for the top line) will be used to find the address position. There is no limit to the number of lines you can use.

2. Open the Eiglobalextra.ini file that is used for the invoice profile.

3. Anywhere in that file, create a section called [Address1].

4. In that [Address1] section, connect your address field profiles to the logical division of the address, like this:

   [Address1]

   AddressHeader=headerline

   AddressLine1=line1

   AddressLine2=line2

   AddressFooter=cityline

   AddressFooterdcl=postaladdress.dcl

   Important

   • The field connected to AddressHeader will always be set to the value of its title.

   • Use as many AddressLineN settings as you need, but make sure you connect the last line of the address to AddressFooter.

5. Add an AddressFooterdcl setting, specifying the name of your DCL file, like this:

   AddressFooterdcl=postaladdress.dcl

6. Add appropriate SearchRect settings (as described here), like this:

   SearchRectTop=0

   SearchRectBottom=30

   SearchRectLeft=0

   SearchRectRight=30

Warnings

• Do not specify Address1 in the [FieldTypeNames] section. You can still use [Address1] in any number of invoice profiles-always using the same field profile names, of course.

• Do not connect your address fields (headerline, line1, etc. in the example above) to any predefined field type. Instead, you connect them to AddressHeader, AddressLine1, etc. is done in the Eiglobalextra.ini file, as described above, instead.