FormSuite for Structured Forms Features

• Document Data Capture
  • Scan Forms - Scan forms and documents to capture valuable data. Completely bypass manual data entry, which speeds up processing and reduces errors.
  • Enhance & Cleanup - Set up your process to enhance and clean up scanned images for improved recognition.
  • Identify & Align Forms - Recognize incoming scanned forms and match them to examples in your master form library.
  • Dropout & Extract Zones - Drop out the forms for improved data recognition and extract fields of hand-printed text, typed text, check marks, or bubble marks.
  • OCR, ICR, OMR, & Barcode - Perform optical character recognition (OCR), intelligent character recognition (ICR), or optical mark recognition (OMR) on the extracted fields, which could include data such as names, amounts, or serial numbers.
  • Store Data - Store the results in a database or pass them to the next step in your forms processing workflow.
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) - Looking to add high-speed forms processing functionality to your application that requires little manual oversight? FormSuite for Structured Forms includes form OCR functionality that provides precise results that require less manual review.
  • Powerful Character Recognition Features - Avoid recognition errors with intelligent character reconstruction.
  • Character Sets - Predefined character sets such as uppercase, lowercase, mixed case alphabetic, digits, currency, and punctuation allow you limit allowable results.
  • Improved Accuracy - Improve accuracy using regular expressions to define expected character patterns within fields like telephone, Social Security, or credit card numbers.
  • Intelligent Identification - Approximate regular expressions and try to match complex character patterns that can be expressed in numerous ways.
  • Field Designation - Allow designation of standard field types including date, time, email address, phone number, SSN, URL, and currency amount.
• Confidence Levels & Language Support - FormSuite for Structured Forms allows you to set up a validation station and send form OCR results to it when confidence values fall within your specified threshold. This gives you control over when an operator should review the results, and provides alternate characters to help them quickly select the correct result. With robust language support, FormSuite for Structured Forms provides OCR and ICR support for English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
• Form Recognition
  • Integrate a form recognition toolkit that allows your users to recognize forms and obtain data from form fields. No more manual data entry required. FormSuite for Structured Forms recognizes forms based on the template that you create. Then, it extracts the data automatically.
  • When users are setting up the forms process, they must load blank templates of the forms they want to use into the system. Once any completed forms are scanned in, FormSuite for Structured Forms will recognize the completed forms and match them to the templates in order to capture the appropriate data. It doesn’t matter if the forms are scanned upside down or sideways, or if they are a different resolution than the original form, FormSuite for Structured Forms will recognize it.
  • When you integrate FormSuite for Structured Forms into your website or application, your users will be able to process and identify digital forms. FormSuite for Structured Forms provides confidence values for each form field it recognizes to ensure accuracy in processing data.
  • FormSuite for Structured Forms includes optical mark recognition (OMR), so your users can extract data from filled in bubbles or check boxes. Whether these responses were typed into form fields or marked in a bubble box, this form recognition toolkit captures the data and reports the results with confidence values.
  • Using form dropout for optical character recognition (OCR), FormSuite for Structured Forms eliminates the guide text in a form field so that the OCR only reads data from the person who filled in the form.
• Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) - Whether your application needs to process insurance forms, educational tests, or other types of forms, FormSuite for Structured Form’s intelligent character recognition (ICR) engine provides the precision and accuracy you can trust.
  • Seamlessly identify and extract hand-printed characters and data that you can then map to database fields. FormSuite for Structured Forms includes standard character sets such as:
    • Uppercase
    • Lowercase
    • Mixed Case Alphabetic
    • Digits
    • Currency
    • Punctuation
  • The forms processing SDK also uses standard field types including time, telephone number, date, email address, Social Security number, currency, URL, and custom regular expressions to improve accuracy. The toolkit’s intelligent character recognition engine also supports European style hand printing. Each character, line, and set of complete results is returned with confidence level values. That way users can determine if an operator review is required.
• Form Cleanup
  • Your users’ forms should be displayed with clarity and accuracy. Scanners often introduce issues during the process of digitizing paper-based forms for processing. Whether the issue is low contrast, specks, or a skewed image, FormSuite for Structured Forms has a solution. The document image cleanup toolkit ensures that you have the most accurate representation of your original file, yielding a more accurate data extraction.
  • FormSuite for Structured Forms has a variety of features for digital forms, but one of the most important is image cleanup. Make sure that your user’s forms appear as clean and professional as possible.
  • When your users scan their forms containing valuable data, FormSuite for Structured Forms extracts the fields of hand-printed text, typed text, check marks, or bubbles. Then, it enhances the image for improved recognition with the following document image cleanup capabilities:
    • Color and Bitonal Image Cleanup
    • Automatic Binarization
    • Deskew and Despeckle
    • Dot Shading Removal and Line Removal
    • Character Smoothing
    • Inverse Text Correction
    • Hole Punch Removal and More
  • FormSuite for Structured Forms uses Accusoft’s ScanFix technology to clean up your documents and images. With this document image cleanup toolkit, you can enhance a document or image before it’s ever processed. You can even enable a specific field to be handed off to an OCR engine.
• Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) - Form processing has never been easier with FormSuite for Structured Forms. Including an advanced C# OMR feature, this SDK allows you to recognize and process answers on fillable forms like bubble sheets used for educational testing, surveys, financial applications, and more. FormAssist is a demo application included with FormSuite for Structured Forms that lets you configure OMR operations and processes filled images. The SDK also contains FormFix which enables developers to build powerful form processing applications which include form recognition, registration, dropout, image cleanup, C# OMR, and more.
• Digital Signatures - FormSuite for Structured Forms is designed for production-ready forms processing. Built with technology that enables developers to capture large amounts of data, FormFix technology was chosen for the second decade in a row for the Decennial United States Census. FormSuite for Structured Forms enables your users to check that all of the fields for signatures have been filled in. For example, large contracts like mortgages have several fields for the applicant to sign. The SDK ensures that none of these pages are missing signatures. With extensive C# OMR technology, FormSuite for Structured Forms is able to read multiple marks on forms. Whether it is a single markup or multiple markups on the page, everything is processed through the C# OMR feature.

What's Included?
FormSuite for Structure Forms includes:

• FormFix
• FormDirector
• SmartZone ICR
• SmartZone OCR
• ScanFix
• ImagXpress
  • NotateXpress