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Confidence Threshold

Cutoff score used to accept or reject OCR-detected characters/words.

Definition

Cutoff score used to accept or reject OCR-detected characters/words.

Why it matters

Balances recall and precision in text extraction outcomes.

Related PDFHQ workflows

Relevant for extraction quality tuning in OCR-heavy workflows.

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Score indicating OCR engine certainty in recognized text.

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