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Quick Fields - Is there a way to identify microfilm "blips"

asked on March 29, 2022

We are trying to use Quick Fields to separate documents that came from microfilm.  Each new page has a "blip" in the lower-left corner, which resembles a barcode, and they are all different.  We've tried using Zone OCR, Barcodes, and Auto-OMR to no avail.  OCR produces random results with no regular pattern, and Barcode (all types) and Auto-OMR produce no results.  Has anyone had success with something like this?

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

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replied on March 29, 2022

It seems like you could use an Optimal Mark Recognition process (not Auto-OMR) with a bunch of manually-positioned zones, one for each bar that could be dark or light.  Then join all token values together into a single new token using an Assign Token Value process.

 

I tested it very briefly on the image you selected above and it seemed to work, with some fiddling of the zone sizes (OMR requires they be at least a certain size).  I used 1 for marked/dark and 0 for unmarked/white as my encoding, so combined they look like a binary number.  You can configure that to be something else in the OMR process, though.

Here's some of the configuration:

 

And the three zones I was testing it with.  Notice that I edited the image to make a "master form" where all values are blank (so that when it compares it to a real image, it can decide if the value has been "filled in" enough to be considered marked).

 

And the Assign Token Values process

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replied on March 30, 2022

Love this creative approach and got it working with my sample.  However, I don't see a way to establish a master form since each first page (with blip) is not the same.  It would be great if only a portion of the page could be set as the master form.

Thank you!

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