Image Acquisition

FormSuite includes components for image acquisition using both Twain and ISIS standards. Additionally, the PDFXpress component can be used to load forms from pdf files. Using these components saves time by integrating automated forms processing with the capturing of forms from these common sources.

Image Enhancement and Cleanup

Image enhancement significantly improves recognition results. ScanFix and ImageXpress components provide effective algorithms for enhancing form images prior to forms processing and forms recognition. FormSuite allows seamless integration of these image enhancement and cleanup components into a forms processing workflow.

Forms Processing

The Forms processing core engine is built on the FormDirector and FormFix components.

• The FormDirector component provides a layer for defining forms. It allows loading a form set complete with form definitions which were created using FormsAssist application. FormDirector can also find information about available fields or define a new form set for subsequent processing.
• The FormFix component is used to identify the fields on a form. The Identification processor within FormFix will identify fields in a single step. The produced identification results may be used for further form fields matching.

Recognition

The Recognition core is designed to extract data values from form fields using OMR, OCR, ICR and barcode recognition technologies.

• The FormFix OMR processor is a component used to recognize check mark fields in a form. It can handle single or multiple circles or boxes, and return results based on a contextual template.
• The SmartZone component is used to recognize printed (OCR) or handwritten (ICR) text. Multiple properties can be used to increase the recognition quality by tuning the recognition engine and selecting recognition patterns.
• The BarcodeXpress component is used to detect and read more than 30 different barcode types.

Imaging Utilities

Imaging utilities are useful for adding markup and annotation, and for creating thumbnails to quickly visualize a set of images.

Printing Support

Printing support is provided by the PrintPRO component. PrintPRO is used to access and modify printer properties, create a print job, preview a print job, and print to a device or file.