# OCRMax Tool Applications

An OCRMax tool requires you to specify a rectangular region where the entire character string must appear in each image, and supports a variety of parameters that allow the tool to correctly determine the boundaries of each individual character within that region, such as the minimum character width, the minimum number of pixels per character, and so on.

In addition, you can enable an optional feature that forces the tool to match the character against a subset of all possible characters for any given position.

For every string it analyzes, an OCRMax tool produces a variety of results, including:

- The result string identified in the image
- The overall status of the result string, a range of values which could indicate that all the characters were identified or that one or more characters could not be matched with any character from the trained font
- The number of characters in the string
- An image of the string after image normalization has been used to distinguish the charaters from the background

Be aware of the distinction between an OCRMax tool, which identifies unknown characters in a string, and the OCVMax tool, which verifies that a character strings contains the expected characters at each position.

See the following sections for more information: