Categories Object (ICategories Interface)

Categories object (ICategories interface) in the ABBYY FineReader Engine API — a collection of Category objects used to populate the categorized data set for training a classifier.

This object represents a collection of Category objects. Use it to populate the categorized data set which will be used to train a classifier.

• The indexing of ABBYY FineReader Engine collections starts with 0.
• The foreach statement in C# (for each in Visual Basic .NET) can be used to manipulate the collection.

Properties

Name	Type	Description
Count	int, read-only	Stores the number of elements in the collection.
Element	Category, read-only	Provides access to a single element of the collection.

Methods

Name	Description
AddNew	Creates a new category with the specified label and adds it into the collection.
DeleteAll	Removes all the elements from the collection.
DeleteAt	Removes an element from the collection.
Find	Finds the category by the label.
Item	Provides access to a single element of the collection.

Related objects

Object Diagram

Samples

This object is used in the Classification demo tool in Windows and the Classification code sample in Linux and macOS.

See also

Working with Collections