General tab

Select this check box to activate the OmniPage Barcode component in a workflow.

Specify the maximum number of 1D barcodes that the component should try to read from a page. Specifying a maximum number of barcodes can improve the performance since the component will stop searching the page for barcodes once it has read the maximum number of barcodes specified.

Enter the minimum number of characters for a non-fixed-length barcode. The default value for this field is 2.

Specify the barcode type that will be read from images. Click the browse button (...) to open the Select Barcode Type dialog box in which you can select types. Selecting a barcode prevents selection of incompatible barcode types. Incompatible types will no longer display check boxes.

1D barcode types

• Airline 2 of 5
• Australian Post 4-State Customer Barcode
• Bookland EAN Code
• Codabar
• Code 11
• Code 128
• Code 2 of 5 Standard
• Code 39
• Code 39 Extended
• Code 39 with start-stop characters
• Code 93
• EAN 8/13
• EAN 14
• GS1 Databar Expanded Code
• GS1 Databar Limited Code
• Italian Postal 2 of 5 Code
• ITF (Interleaved 2 of 5)
• ITF 14 Code
• Matrix 2 of 5
• Modified Plessey Code
• Patch Code
• Planet Code (US postal code)
• Postnet code (US postal code)
• SSCC18/EAN-18 Code
• UCC/EAN Code 128 (includes SSCC-18 and EAN-14) 
• UPC-A
• UPC-E (6-digit)
• USPS 4-State Customer Barcode

2D-barcode types

• Aztec (2D barcode)
• Data Matrix (2D barcode)
• PDF 417 (2D barcode)
• QR Code (Quick Response) (2D barcode)

Select this radio button to search barcodes in full pages.

Click Setup to open the Page Setup dialog box in which you can list pages to be searched in documents. Specify a comma-delimited list of pages, for example: 2,4,6..9,11.. To specify a range, use two periods (..). When .. is specified at the end of the list, it means and till the last page. All pages are searched if the Pages list is left empty in the Page Setup dialog box.

To configure zones, click the Setup button. This opens the Setup Zoned OCR dialog box which allows you to configure settings for a zone.

To edit settings of a zone in the list, select it then click the Setup button to open the Setup Zoned OCR dialog box.

To remove a zone, select the zone in the table and click Remove.

• Regular expression: the component will split the document when it finds a barcode with a value matching a regular expression. The expression must follow the ECMAScript grammar. For more information about ECMAScript grammar and note that the entire regular expression needs to be provided.

  For example, the expression [0-9]{5}[\s\S] means the following:

  • Matches a single character in the range between 0 and 9

  • Matches the previous token exactly 5 times

  • Matches any whitespace and any non-whitespace characters

  For more information, see Regular Expressions in the MSDN Library or the official website.

• External script: the component will split the document using a VB script.
• Wildcard: the component will split the document when it finds a barcode with the value matching a wildcard pattern:
  • *:Any value of any length (this is a default value)
  • ?: Any single character
  • [A]: Any single alphabetic character
  • [#]: Any single numeric character
  • [A#],[A#]: Any letter or any number

  For example, *.??? means any string that ends with '.' followed by three symbols; [#]* means any string that begins with a numeric character; and *Data* means any string that contains a "Data" substring.

  If you want symbols like * ? [ ] \ to be recognized as literal characters instead of wildcard characters, use the slash escape character: \* , \?, \[ , \], \\. For example, if a string [a*b]*c is desired to be found, use the following expression: \[a\*b\]\*c.

When Keep separator pages is selected, select whether documents are split before or after the separator page:

• Before separator page — The split occurs before a separator page, so that it is retained as the first page in the document that follows a split. If a separator page is the last page of a document, it is retained as the only page in the last split document. This is the default setting.
• After separator page — The split occurs after the separator page, so that it is retained as the last page in the document that precedes a split. If a separator page is the first page of a document, it is retained as the only page in the first split document.

This list box is only enabled when the Keep separator page check box is selected.