Read hand and machine printed data off your forms.
SmartZone SDKs make it easy to include the world's best character recognition in your application.
Just pass it an image clip, and SmartZone returns
the characters. It's ideal for processing fields on forms, whether they
were typed (OCR) or hand-printed (ICR).
Confidence values let you decide when an operator should review the
results, and alternate characters help them quickly select the correct
result.
SmartZone for .NET includes exclusive new technology that uses
regular expressions,
such as social security numbers or phone numbers, to improve accuracy
even further. When you know the format of the expected data in any
field, you can increase overall accuracy by specifying which characters
can occupy each position.
Visit the Demo
page to try SmartZone online or to install a demonstration program, or
download the FormSuite SDK to compile and run sample code, and start
developing your own forms processing solution.
OCR, ICR, OMR, & Barcode
Perform OCR, ICR, or OMR on the extracted fields, which could include names, amounts, or serial numbers.
Ready For Storage
Store the results in a database or pass them to the next step in your workflow.
FeaturesLanguages OCR and ICR
- English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French,
German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish (ActiveX
ICR is English-only)
- Can simultaneously recognize characters from all supported languages
Recognition Features
- Pre-defined character sets include: uppercase, lowercase, mixed case alphabetic, digits, currency, and punctuation
- Can be limited to any customer-defined subset of the full character sets
- Return confidence values for each individual character, line, and the complete result
- Return alternate results for each character, with confidence values
- Choose rejection character provided when character cannot be identified
- Set confidence level below which the rejection character is returned
- Can optimize by controlling recognition segmentation parameters
Regular Expressions (.NET only)
- Define an expected character pattern for a field
- Dramatically improves accuracy
- Can apply a different regular expression to each field
Standard Field Types (.NET only)
- Pre-defined field types include: dates, times, email, U.S phone, SSN, URL, currency
- Improves accuracy for defined fields
- Can augment with regular expressions
- Data validation list can be used to automatically verify part numbers, customer IDs, etc.
Image Load, Save, and Manipulation
- SmartZone Professional and Standard include ImagXpress Standard (full product description) for basic image conversion, image processing, and TWAIN scanning
What's New
- Improved SmartZone OCR speed
- Significantly faster processing of multiple zones
- For forms containing a large number of OCR zones, processing time will be about 2 times faster
- Samples upgraded to support Visual Studio 2010
- New image transfer methods to simplify passing images between Accusoft products