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giulio posted this 01 August 2018

Hi,

from OCR i have this string:

No A0065019TN16 (A) FC-373RL

(B) 22.04.2016

(C.2.1) ROSSI

(C.2.2) OTTAVIO

NATO IL 13.0 5.1957 (ROSTTV57El3L378T)

A ROVERETO (TN)

(C.2.3) VIA SPR ' E' 30

ROVERETO (TN)

in the field Regular expression I put \(A\).*

the result is a null string.

any suggest ?
thanks

zone-ocr

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luca.scarpati posted this 01 August 2018 - Last edited 01 August 2018

Hi Giulio,

your RegEx works, but the regular expression field it was designed to find a targeted data selected not an entire sequenze because otherwise is advisable to use a script. In any case, to your regex condition must be valid all word in the selected area.
Try with this "full-text RegEx" : (.|\n)+\(A\)(.|\n)+

You can find more information about this also in our help / manual and for your RegEx test...I suggest you try this: https://regex101.com/

Best Regards,

Luca

giulio posted this 01 August 2018

ciao,

I probably did not explain myself ...

I would like to be able to extract the string "(A) FC-373RL"

this is not possible with regular expression ?

Do I have to use a script ?

Thanks again.

Giulio

luca.scarpati posted this 01 August 2018

Ciao Giulio,

more than welcome!

It's not possible with the regular expression, you need a script to do this.

As I wrote in the previous message the Regular Expression field in the Zone OCR "it was designed to find a targeted data selected"...so yes, to get a specific value from the zone you need a script.

Have a nice afternoon!