MergenceManager (NewOCR 2.0.0 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultMergenceManager
```
public interface MergenceManager
```
The manager for MergeRules to combine/merge multi part characters.

Since:

April 25, 2019

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`MergenceManager`	`addRule(java.util.function.BiFunction<DatabaseManager,SimilarityManager,MergeRule> rule)`	Adds a mergence rule to be ran using the given `DatabaseManager` and `SimilarityManager` from the constructor.
`void`	`beginMergence(it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.ints.Int2ObjectLinkedOpenHashMap<java.util.List<ImageLetter>> sortedLines, SimilarityManager similarityManager)`	Orders and invokes all merge rules' `MergeRule.mergeCharacters(ImageLetter, List)` method with appropriate data.

- Method Detail
  - addRule
```
MergenceManager addRule(java.util.function.BiFunction<DatabaseManager,SimilarityManager,MergeRule> rule)
```
    Adds a mergence rule to be ran using the given DatabaseManager and SimilarityManager from the constructor.
    
    Parameters:
    
    rule - The rule to add
    
    Returns:
    
    The current MergenceManager
  - beginMergence
```
void beginMergence(it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.ints.Int2ObjectLinkedOpenHashMap<java.util.List<ImageLetter>> sortedLines,
                   SimilarityManager similarityManager)
```
    Orders and invokes all merge rules' MergeRule.mergeCharacters(ImageLetter, List) method with appropriate data.
    
    Parameters:
    
    sortedLines - The read image data
    
    similarityManager - The SimilarityManager used