ABBYY FlexiCapture: Using Label Field Element to find Title and Value

In my previous post, I showed you guys how we can use Static Text Element and Character String Element  And so now in this post I am going to show you one another important element known as Label Field Element. 

Label Field Element is an element by which we can detect Title/Label as well as find the value of the same. It is a compound element which the program uses to search for fields that have names. It includes the following subelements:

1. Static Text: This contains the name of the field. example- invoice number, invoice date, amount, and company name, etc.
2. White Gap: This describes the gap between the name and the value of the fields.
3. Value: This describes the contents of the value field

Label Field elements are marked with  in the tree.

When Label Field searches for the name of the field, the program will consider the Recognized Words and Recognized Lines object detected by pre-recognition and falling withing the element's search area.

So when it finds the name of the field, the program searches for the field related to that label which already found.

Let's understand its 3 main tabs as shown in the above image:

1. Label (Name Properties): The Label of a field is described by a Static Text Element. It works exactly the same as Static Text Element works. 
   
    
2. Field Position: In this, we can find the position od the field relative to its Label. It can be at the right, at the left, above, or below.

   

• Field Alignment: In this, we specify the alignment of the field's search area relative to the rectangle enclosing the name. The value here depends on the value of the Field Position means if we find a label at the left or at the right of the name, its search area may be aligned by the top or bottom boundary or may be centered. Similarly, if the field is positioned above or below the name its search area may be aligned by the left or right boundary.
• Minimum Space: This specifies the minimum space between the name and the field.
• Search area width: The width of the search area
• Search area height: The height of the search area
• Detect indent size: It is a flag specifies whether a White Gap element should be used to detect the distance between the field and its name.

    3.  Field Search constraints: The search constraints for a field are specified on the Field Position              tab. This tab functions are very much similar to the Character String Element.    

 

• Field Content: This specifies the type of the field's contents. Depending on the type of the field, the Field Position tab may include additional search constraints those are the following:

                - Fixed Variants

                - Numbers

                - Currency

                - Date

                - Phone

                - Regular expression

So these are the things that we see in the Label Field Element. In the video below you can see how it works.