Barcodes can be embedded in PDF files either as an image or as text using a barcode font. SimpleIndex and most scanning applications can read barcodes by rendering the PDF page as an image and processing it. However if your PDF uses a bar code font, SimpleIndex can read the value directly from the text. This is many times faster and can save you hundreds of hours of processing time over a large project.

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Turn On Replacement Characters for Barcodes

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Bar Code Recognition reference. With OCR processing certain characters will read incorrectly in some cases, such as an I reading as a 1 and an O reading as a 0. If this is expected to happen you can set the OCR to use the character replacement feature to replace all
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Change the Dictionary Separator Value

This is used to change the dictionary separator value when doing thesaurus matching from the default character of | to any character(s) that you want. This can be useful in cases where the values you would like in your list or dictionary might include the pipe character or “|” or “Shift Backslash” This setting is
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Check and Repair All PDF Files

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete PDF reference. You can set SimpleIndex to assume that it needs to check every PDF file and fix it. Go to this location in the Windows Registry: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\SimpleIndex\Misc Create a New String Value called “FixAllPDF” and set the value to 1
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Keep Pages in Original Order when Bookmarking

If you want to keep all the pages in the same order that they were imported, even though they all go with different bookmarks then do the following. 1.  Open the configuration in Notepad.2.  Search for <BOOKMARK_PAGE_ORDER>3.  Change this line from “false” to “true”:  <BOOKMARK_PAGE_ORDER>true</BOOKMARK_PAGE_ORDER>4.  Save and close.
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Can SimpleIndex read bar codes from existing PDF files?

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Bar Code Recognition reference. There are 2 types of PDF files. PDFs created by scanning applications use images, while PDF files created by software or printer drivers use text. SimpleIndex can read bar codes from either type of document. With image PDFs, SimpleIndex will use normal image barcode
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I cannot recognize PDF417 or QR Code bar codes. What does “Advanced “Only” mean?

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Bar Code Recognition reference. This error applies to versions of SimpleIndex prior to version 7. All current versions of SimpleIndex include 2D barcode recognition. The Barcode and Professional licenses include the faster and more accurate Accusoft bar code recognition engine. In order to enable the Accusoft engine with
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Can I split TIFF or PDF files based on barcodes as a separator and also name the file with the barcode value?

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Bar Code Recognition reference. Yes you can split TIFF and PDF files using barcodes as well as name files using the values from barcodes. To do this simply create a barcode field and check the “Filename” and “Forward” options for that field on the Index tab. The “Filename”
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Will SimpleIndex read multiple barcodes on a page and save the value to the appropriate index field?

it can. By default barcodes on any page are read left to right and top to bottom. The first barcode read on the page will be filled into the first barcode field set up in SimpleIndex and so on. You can also narrow down results by matching against
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Is there a way to just use part of a bar code or OCR value? For example, extract “50” from the value “124450”

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Bar Code Recognition reference. To do this example, create a barcode field (Field 1 for example) and a 2nd field with type “Fixed”. In the template for the 2nd field, enter %FIELD1[5,2]% to get “50” from “124450”. %FIELD1% would get the entire value for Field #1, the barcode
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How can I delete the barcode or blank page cover/separator sheet that I don’t need to save?

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Bar Code Recognition reference. To delete any barcode page go into ‘Options’, to the ‘Barcode’ Tab and click the ‘Delete barcode page’ check box. Blank page deletion is done through the minimum file size threshold located in ‘Options’ in the ‘Batch’ Tab. The option is called ‘Min. File
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Some pages in my documents have unwanted barcodes that are being read. How can I exclude these from recognition?

Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Barcode Options reference. There are several methods for doing this. The fastest, most effective method is to enter a Template for your barcodes to ensure only barcodes that match a specific pattern will be used for that field. Unfortunately it is not always possible to define a template
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How do you configure OCR to read index information from MS Office or PDF documents?

SimpleIndex can just read
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How can I use barcodes or blank pages as Document Separators.

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Why are my barcodes not being recognized properly?

Several factors can affect barcode recognition. -Scan in Black & White instead of color. Barcode recognition must convert color to B&W which can decrease quality. -Print barcodes with a laser printer. Dot-matrix barcodes are very difficult to read accurately. -Check your Zone settings. If there are zone coordinates defined for any barcode fields, only barcodes
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Barcode Scanning Guide

So you want to organize your documents using barcodes? That is an excellent idea! Not only will it improve the speed and accuracy of your document management workflow, but it is easier to set up than it sounds. The guide is written to give you real information instead of marketing, but you can follow the
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Document Barcode Recognition

This video shows how barcode recognition can be used with our 1-click processing feature to index files quickly, easily, and accurately. If you are unfamiliar with the use of barcodes in document scanning, you can learn more about barcodes in our Barcode Scanning Guide. With a single click, a batch of documents is imported, barcodes
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Barcode Recognition

Indexing Solutions with Barcode Recognition Barcode recognition is the most efficient way to capture index data printed on documents. If you are unfamiliar with the use of barcodes in document scanning, you can learn more about barcodes in our Barcode Scanning Guide, but if you want to know more about barcode use with SimpleSoftware products,
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PDF & Office Text Parsing

Office Videos | PDF Video The template and dictionary matching capabilities of SimpleIndex‘s OCR function can be used to extract index information from the text of existing MS Office and PDF files, or any file with an accompanying TXT file. SimpleIndex® will search the document for matches on unique patterns and value lists, then index
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