A

Auto classification
Process to automatically determine if the field input is OCR or ICR using computer vision algorithms.

D

Drop-out
A process whereby the pre-printed content on an image is removed, leaving only the data that was added to a form. When filled and template data overlap, the filled data will be reconstructed as accurately as possible.

E

Electronic Document
A document that has been scanned, or was originally created on a computer.

F

Field
A single rectangular region on a form defined by pixels, along with a type, and various other attributes. Frequently, a field will contain a single user-filled item, such as a last name or phone number.

Field Clip
An image of a field.

Form or Form Definition
A single template image, along with various attributes and properties of the form. Forms contain zero or more fields and may be part of a single form set. A Form will generally refer to a single side of a single sheet, although it is possible to have multiple logical form pages on a single form. For example, a 4-page, 8.5 x 11 form could be unfolded and scanned at 11 x 17 as two forms.

Form Document
A customer-defined, logical document comprised of one or more related sheets, with information on one or both sides of each sheet. Some examples would be a one-sheet, front and back credit application, a six-page front-only mortgage application, a 32-page student test booklet, or a one-page HCFA 1500 medical form. The FormDirector component will have no explicit support for form documents.

Form Definition File
A file which defines a single form and all of its fields are read and written by this component. The form definition files will be wholly contained, including a template image with no references to external files. The extension of .frd will be used for all files of this type.

Form Set
A collection of zero or more forms. The FormDirector component will have explicit support for form sets, in order to support identification of a form within the set.

Form Set File
A file which defines a collection of form sets and/or form definitions including all the data that defines them. The extension of .frs will be used for all files of this type.

Forms Processing System
An imaging application for handling printed forms. Forms processing systems often use OCR engines and data validation routines to extract hand-written or printed information from forms that go into a database.

I

ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition)
Machine recognition of hand-printed characters, as well as machine printing that is difficult to recognize.

O

OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
Reading text from paper and translating the images into a form that the computer can manipulate.

OMR (Optical Mark Recognition)
The technology of electronically extracting intended data from marked fields, such as check-boxes and fill-infields, on printed forms.

T

Template or Template Image
A full image of the original form, without any additional data added to it. Also called a "blank form", a template comprises all the content that is common to all images of a given form, and only the content that is common to all images of a given form.

Thread-safe
An application using this component can use multiple controls running in the same process, where they don't interfere with each other. The thread creating the control owns the control and is the only thread that can interact with it.

U

Unicode
A character set that can support a wide range of international characters. Unicode requires 16-bits to encode a character, unlike ASCII, which requires only 8 but supports only a small subset of characters beyond Latin.