TextType enum

Text types recognized by Mobile Capture.

public enum TextType {
  Normal,
  Matrix,
  OCR_A,
  OCR_B,
  MICR_E13B,
  MICR_CMC7,
  Receipt
}

Constants

Name Description
Normal Common typographic text
Matrix

Text printed on a dot-matrix printer. It may look as follows:

OCR_A

Text in monospaced font designed specifically for Optical Character Recognition. It is largely used by banks, credit card companies and similar businesses. It may look as follows:

OCR_B

Text printed in a font designed specifically for Optical Character Recognition. It may look as follows:

MICR_E13B

Special set of characters including only digits and A, B, C, D characters printed in magnetic ink. MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) characters are found in a variety of places, including personal checks. They may look as follows:

MICR_CMC7

Special set of characters, which includes only digits and A, B, C, D, E characters, written in MICR barcode font (CMC-7). They may look as follows:

Receipt

Text of a receipt. This type of text is designed for recognizing sales receipts, invoices, etc. Unlike the other types, it is not concerned with the actual font of the text. Rather, it tells the recognizer that there may be text of low quality, mostly in monospaced or normal font. The typical receipt text can look like this:

3/2/2022 12:59:15 PM

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