Layout Object (ILayout Interface)
This object exposes methods and properties for working with the image layout. The Layout object serves as a root for blocks. Its attributes are width and height. These parameters are set equal to the corresponding parameters of the black-and-white page of the image for which the Layout object is defined. This is done automatically when the Layout object is analyzed or recognized.
The Layout object is a persistent object. This means that the object's current state can be written to persistent storage: an area in the global memory or a disk file. Later, the object can be re-created by reading the object's state from persistent storage. The following methods provide persistence of the object: SaveToFile, LoadFromFile, SaveToMemory, and LoadFromMemory.
Properties
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Application | Engine, read-only | Returns the Engine object. |
| Block collections | ||
| BlackSeparators | LayoutBlocks, read-only |
Provides access to the collection of separator and separator group blocks of the layout. This property refers to a valid object independently of whether there are any separator blocks in the Layout or not. If there are no separators in the Layout, the BlackSeparators property is empty. |
| Blocks | LayoutBlocks, read-only |
Provides access to the collection of blocks of the layout. This collection does not contain the separator and separator group blocks. To access these blocks, use the BlackSeparators property. This property refers to a valid object independently of whether there are any blocks in Layout or not. If there are no blocks in Layout, the Blocks property is empty. See also Working with read-only object properties.
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| SortedBlocks | LayoutBlocks, read-only |
Returns the logically ordered collection of the blocks of the layout. This collection contains the same blocks that are returned by the Blocks property. They are sorted by the position of upper left corner of each block, first in left-to-right, then in top-to-bottom direction. The blocks that are close together will be considered as part of one logical group. |
| VisualBlocks | LayoutBlocks, read-only |
Provides access to the collection of blocks visible in Visual Components. This collection can contain blocks of the following types: text, table, raster picture, barcode, autoanalysis. The order of the blocks in this collection is the same as you can see in Visual Components. |
| Additional attributes | ||
| Height | int, read-only | Returns the layout height in pixels. It is equal to the height of ImageDocument of the corresponding FRPage. |
| Name | BSTR | Stores the layout name. |
| TextAsString | BSTR, read-only | Writes the text from all text and table blocks to one line. The TableCells object determines the order in which text from table cells is written. So the order may not coincide with the table cells order as they go in the image. Text of barcode blocks is not written. |
| PageRegion | Region, read-only | Stores the bounding region of the blocks of the layout. If there are no blocks, this property returns the empty region. |
| UserProperty | VARIANT | Allows you to associate any user-defined information with an object of the Layout type. |
| Width | int, read-only | Returns the layout width in pixels. It is equal to the width of ImageDocument of the corresponding FRPage. |
Methods
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Clean | Removes all types of blocks and separators from the layout. |
| CopyFrom | Initializes properties of the current object with values of similar properties of another object. |
| LoadFromFile | Restores the object contents from a file on disk. |
| LoadFromMemory | Restores the object contents from the global memory. |
| SaveToArray | Saves the object contents as an array of bytes. |
| SaveToFile | Saves the object contents into a file on disk. |
| SaveToMemory | Saves the object contents into the global memory. |
| SaveToStream | Saves the object contents into the stream. |
Related objects
Output parameter
This object is the output parameter of the CreateLayoutFromStream method of the Engine object.
Samples
C# code
The object is used in the following code samples: CustomLanguage, RecognizedTextProcessing; and demo tools: Camera OCR, Engine Predefined Processing Profiles, Image Preprocessing.
See also
Working with Layout and Blocks
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