Accusoft Forms API v1.0 is a set of classes that encapsulates the implementation required to connect FormSuite components together to build a forms processing application. In previous releases of FormSuite, you had to code against the APIs of the components of FormSuite to build a forms processing solution. This could include coding against the APIs of FormFix, FormDirector, SmartZone OCR and ICR, ScanFix Xpress, and possibly other components sold separately from FormSuite. Furthermore, to maximize the performance of these components, you had to understand the best practices use of these APIs. Forms API takes this burden from you, the application developer, and implements a standard forms processing workflow using best practices of Accusoft's form processing and recognition components.

The API is delivered as both source code and compiled binaries (which will be used by FormAssist and the Forms Processing Server sample). The motivation to ship as source code is to allow customers to reuse the API in a solution that uses an alternative forms processing workflow other recognition engines.

Limitations

The API does not completely wrap the FormSuite API, users of the API will still have to interact with result objects from the FormSuite components. Also, the API user can optionally load and save form sets and form definitions using the FormDirector component, or it can leave all of this functionality up to the Forms API.

The Accusoft Forms API will only support forms processing functionality in this release. It does not support any form set creation or editing
functionality. Furthermore, the processing functionality supports one forms processing workflow, which is the standard workflow implemented by FormAssist in previous releases of FormSuite.The Accusoft Forms API encapsulates the usage of all the FormSuite components. It was created to simplify the design of a standard forms processing application using best practices of Accusoft's form processing and recognition components. The API is delivered as both source code and compiled binaries (which are used by FormAssist and the Forms Processing Server sample).