Paragraphs Object (IParagraphs Interface)

Paragraphs object (IParagraphs interface) in the ABBYY FineReader Engine API — Collection of recognized-text Paragraph objects with standard collection functionality plus IndexOf for finding a paragraph’s index; accessible via the Text object.

This object provides access to the collection of recognized text paragraphs.

Besides standard collection methods and properties, it contains the IndexOf method that allows you to find paragraph index in the collection given a pointer to Paragraph object. The collection is accessible via the Text object.

• 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
Application	Engine, read-only	Returns the Engine object.
Count	int, read-only	Stores the number of elements in the collection.
Element	Paragraph, read-only	Provides access to a single element of the collection.

Methods

Name	Description
IndexOf	Returns the index of a paragraph in the collection.
Item	Provides access to a single element of the collection.

Related objects

Object Diagram

Samples

The object is used in the following code samples:

• Linux: CustomLanguage
• Windows: CustomLanguage, RecognizedTextProcessing; and demo tools: Engine Predefined Processing Profiles

See also

Text

Paragraph

Working with Text

Working with Collections

Working with Properties