SmartZone™ ICR Version 4 performs ICR recognition in user defined areas of interest, or "zones". SmartZone ICR can be easily integrated with other Accusoft components into a robust forms-processing product.

New Features in SmartZone ICR Version 4

• SmartZone ICR SDK provides easy to use updated samples for Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. Samples for Visual Studio 2005 have been removed.

Primary Features in SmartZone ICR

• ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition or Image Character Recognition) of hand-printed English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish, Swedish, and combined Western European language characters, in a zone on an image.
• Ability to specify expected recognition results by specifying:
  • a FieldType such as date, time, and many others,
  • a regular expression, or
  • potential contents in a DataValidationList such as a list of possible account or customer numbers.
• Ability to specify the rejection character when recognition of a character fails.
• Ability to specify the confidence level at which the rejection character is used.
• Ability to report multiple character results and associated confidence values.
• Ability to select the expected language(s) being recognized.
• Ability to recognize text using pre-defined CharacterSets, including:
  • All characters
  • Uppercase alphabetic
  • Lowercase alphabetic
  • Mixed case alphabetic
  • Alphanumeric
  • Digits
  • Currency
  • Currency symbols
  • Arithmetic
  • Arithmetic characters
  • Phone number
  • Punctuation characters
• Ability to specify language in CharacterSets.
• Ability to limit character sets for recognition to custom defined subsets of supported characters.
• Support for streaming to allow communication with other components including FormFix, FormDirector and ScanFix components.
• The component ships as a single DLL.

SmartZone ICR Editions

• SmartZone ICR Standard - includes ICR with standard processing capabilities.
• SmartZone ICR Professional - includes ICR with enhanced speed capabilities.

Additional Accusoft Components Installed with FormSuite™

• FormDirector™ for form and form set definition.
• FormFix® for forms identification, form dropout, and OMR processing.
• SmartZone™ OCR performs OCR Recognition in user defined areas of interest or "zones"  on an image.
• ScanFix® Xpress image enhancements, cleanup, and using automatic binarization.
• ImagXpress® for image loading and viewing.
• NotateXpress™ for adding image annotations.
• PrintPRO™ for printing.
• ThumbnailXpress™ to view thumbnail images.
• TwainPRO™ to acquire images from TWAIN devices.

Only binary images are supported in this release. The component will return an error when asked to process a color or grayscale image. Conversion from color or grayscale images is available by using the included ImagXpress component or the optionally available ScanFix component.

Additional Accusoft Demonstration in FormSuite™

• FormAssist is a program provided with source code by Accusoft to demonstrate the capabilities of FormSuite. FormAssist illustrates best practices for the integration of all the FormSuite components, as well as an example workflow. Use FormAssist as a foundation for developing your production forms processing application.

For information on how to register and license all your Accusoft components, see Licensing.