Configuration

Profiles

A profile is a named set of columns plus the OCR rules that go with them. Switch profiles when you move between equipment types. The active profile decides what the capture page shows and what the CSV contains.

Columns

The number is the position in the exported CSV. Auto columns can be filled from a scanned code or from the plate text; manual columns are never guessed — use that for locations, links and notes. Aliases are extra labels to look for on a plate, comma separated: adding ser.nr to a serial column teaches it a new label without touching any code.

Reading the plate

These rules clean up what the OCR engine returns, for this profile only. Every line they discard is still shown on the capture page with the rule that discarded it, so you can see what a setting is costing you.

Memory scales with the square of the image size: roughly 280 MB at 1600, 600 MB at 2000, 725 MB at 2600. Raise the confidence to silence noisy glyphs; lower it if real text is going missing.

Deleted from every line before anything else. Useful when a symbol on the plate keeps attaching itself to real text.

This is the fix for a logo being read as a stray letter. A pictogram usually comes back as one or two characters, so ^.{0,2}$ removes it. The default ^[^\x00-\x7F]+$ drops lines that are entirely non-ASCII.

Export

Applies to every profile.

Description suggestions

Suggests a description from the manufacturer and model. The dictionary below is checked first and is instant. Part-number family rules cover common ranges. The web lookup is a last resort and is off by default, because nothing else here needs the internet.