Define data output format

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To define where and how the recognized data should be stored you can use the Settings command from File menu.

The main options are two: files or database table.

If you need to store data in a file, you can define the directory where to save the file, the file name and the file format. The file format is defined appendig to file name the specific format extension. For example, .txt to get an ASCII files, .xls to get an Excel file...

The supported file formats are:

·	ASCII text (.txt)

·	Text with fixed spacing (.asc)

·	Comma Separed Value (.csv)

·	Tab Separed Value (.tsv/.tab)

·	Hypertext Markup Language (.htm/.html)

·	Extensible Markup Language (.xml)

·	Microsoft Excel (.xls)

·	Symbolic Link Interchange Format (.slk/.sylk)

·	SQL commands (.sql)

·	dBase (.dbf)

·	Paradox (.db)

·	Access (.mdb)

·	Portable Document Format (.pdf)

If you need store date in a database table you can define the database alias and the table name. The alias can be managed using the BDE Administrator applet in the Windows control panel: an alias is an identifier with associated parameters allowing to access to a specific database. The destination table should be exists before to start the recognition.

All the fields of a form are stored in a single record and you can define for each recognized field the destination table field using the Post-Processing Parameters dialog.

If the predefined output types are not enough, you cand custimize the outout creating specific scripts as explained in the Use the script section.