GdPictureImaging.ADRGetCloserTemplateForGdPictureImage Method

Performs a documents recognition operation from a GdPicture image and returns the document identifier template ID which has the best similar content.

public int ADRGetCloserTemplateForGdPictureImage(
    int ImageID
);

Visual Basic

Public Function ADRGetCloserTemplateForGdPictureImage(
    ByVal ImageID As Integer
) As Integer

Parameters

Parameters	Description
ImageID	The GdPicture Image.

Returns

The Template ID which has the best similar content than the specified image.

Example

How to create document templates and identify the one which has the closer similar content than an image file.

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Dim TemplateID1 As Integer, TemplateID2 As Integer
Dim nCloserTemplate As Integer
Dim nImage as Integer
 
'We create the first template from an image
TemplateID1 = oGdPictureImaging.ADRCreateTemplateFromFile("template1.tif")
If TemplateID1 = 0 Then
   MsgBox "Can't create TemplateID1 " + "Error number: " + str(oGdPictureImaging.GetStat)
End If
 
'We create the second template from an other kind of image
TemplateID2 = oGdPictureImaging.ADRCreateTemplateFromFile("template2.tif")
If TemplateID2 = 0 Then
   MsgBox "Can't create TemplateID2 " + "Error number: " + str(oGdPictureImaging.GetStat)
End If
 
 
'Now, we will try to identify an image.
nImage = CreateGdPictureImageFromFile("document.tif")
nCloserTemplate = oGdPictureImaging.ADRGetCloserTemplateForGdPictureImage("document.tif")
 
Select Case nCloserTemplate
       Case TemplateID1
            MsgBox "This image seems to get best similar content as TemplateID1. Confidence is: " + str(oGdPictureImaging.ADRGetLastConfidence) + " %"
       Case TemplateID2
            MsgBox "This image seems to get best similar content as TemplateID2. Confidence is: " + str(oGdPictureImaging.ADRGetLastConfidence) + " %"
End Select
oGdPictureImaging.ReleaseGdPictureImage(nImage)
 
'Release created templates from memory
oGdPictureImaging.ADRDeleteTemplate (TemplateID1)
oGdPictureImaging.ADRDeleteTemplate (TemplateID2)