FormSuite

FormSuite™ provides high speed and accuracy data extraction for standard printed forms. It is a template-based forms processing engine. You can create a template of the forms you need to process and then process the filled forms against this template. Create your forms processing workflow with FormSuite!

It packages several Accusoft forms processing components into one convenient install providing a rich set of features that will enable you to build powerful applications to process forms.

Some of these features include:

Form Identification - Match a filled form to a predefined form template.
Form Registration - Align a filled form to its matching form template.
Form Dropout - Remove the form template from an image, retaining only the filled-in information.
Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) - Read forms with check boxes and bubbles. For e.g., surveys and tests.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) - Read machine printed characters in a wide variety of fonts and languages.
Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) - Read handwritten characters in several languages and regional variations.
Automatic OCR/ICR field type classification - Detect if the field contains handwritten or machine printed text, and recognize it using the appropriate SmartZone engine.
Advanced image enhancement and correction algorithms to improve recognition results.

Accusoft Components Shipped with FormSuite

FormSuite includes the following components (i.e., these components are installed when you install FormSuite):

FormDirector - For defining forms.
FormFix - For identifying fields on a form.
Forms API - Implements a standard forms processing workflow using best practices of Accusoft's form processing and recognition components.
FormAssist application - An application for creating and testing form templates.
SmartZone OCR - For recognizing printed (OCR) text.
SmartZone ICR - For recognizing handwritten (ICR) text.
ScanFix Xpress - For image enhancement.
ImagXpress - For image loading, binarizing, enhancement, and viewing.
NotateXpress - For adding image annotations.
PDF Xpress - For loading files from PDF forms.

Forms API

Forms API is a standard forms processing solution built using the various FormSuite components implementing best practices of Accusoft's form processing and recognition components.

The API is delivered as both source code and compiled binaries.

Forms API ships as source code to allow developers to reuse the API in a solution that uses an alternative forms processing workflow with other recognition engines.
The compiled binaries are used in our FormAssist application and the Forms Processing Server sample.

The API does not completely wrap all the FormSuite components’ API, you will still have to interact with result objects from FormSuite’s components. You may load and save form sets and form definitions using the FormDirector component or leave all this functionality up to Forms API. The forms processing functionality does not support any form set creation or editing functionality.

The Forms API source code has been built and provided as a .NET component.