First Page Identification processes matches pages to specified criteria—identification conditions—for each document class to determine whether a document belongs to that class. Some processes can be used only for the purpose of identifying documents, although some of these can be configured in the Pre-Classification Processing stage as well as the First Page Identification stage. Other processes, such as Barcode or OmniPage Zone OCR, can be used to identify a document as well as to extract information from it in order to populate fields and other document metadata during other stages of processing. When configuring these processes in the First Page Identification stage, you will have the additional step of defining the identification condition. You can also assign image enhancements or other processes within First Page Identification that do not contain identification conditions but help prepare the document for the identification process: e.g., using Despeckle to get better results when using OmniPage Zone OCR to read a word from an image.
Note: The processes that appear in the Tasks Pane are determined by the stage selected in the Session Configuration Pane; only processes that can be used in that stage will be shown.
Note: If no identification condition is specified for a document class, all documents and pages that have not already been assigned will be assigned to that document class.
Note: Processes and image enhancements used within the First Page Identification stage will apply only within First Page Identification. To store data from an image or permanently modify the image, use the process or enhancement in a different stage of processing.