ABBYY Announces FlexiCapture Studio at AIIM; New Tool for Enhancing and Developing Semi-Structured Forms Processing Solutions.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management International, Silver Spring, MD, www.aiim.org) A membership organization founded in 1943 devoted to creating industry standards and disseminating information about the document management industry. 2004 Booth #2263 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 2004 ABBYY USA, a leader in document recognition and linguistic technologies today announced FlexiCapture Studio, a powerful tool that enables data capture processing of unstructured or semi-structured forms and documents. Targeted at software developers, system integrators and VARs, FlexiCapture Studio will help develop and expand semi-structured forms processing applications. Initially designed for use with ABBYY FormReader and FineReader Engine SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). , FlexiCapture Studio is a tool that allows users to create solutions based on ABBYY recognition technology to successfully capture data from various semi-structured and unstructured forms, including such varied documents as invoices, health claim forms, resumes, loan documents and the like, without regard to scan resolution or data location. ABBYY FlexiCapture Studio addresses three limitations of current forms processing solutions: a. the ability to handle only fixed forms and documents, but not semi-structured or unstructured forms; b. constant template-tweaking to accommodate minor document adjustments; and c. high costs associated with operator dependence. "Built on the impeccable OCR OCR in full optical character recognition Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry. accuracy heritage that ABBYY has come to be known for, FlexiCapture Studio is paving the way to expand the forms processing market we know today," said Dean Tang, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of ABBYY USA. "With the introduction of FlexiCapture Studio, ABBYY can offer its existing partners and application developers a forms processing tool that will help them greatly expand their business by allowing them to capture a wider variety of data, including semi-structured and variable forms." With FlexiCapture Studio's intuitive user interface, a person who has had no previous programming experience can create a layout definition, or FlexiLayout. In the case of complex flexible forms, ABBYY FlexiCapture Studio allows users to create FlexiLayouts using the powerful FlexiCapture language. FlexiCapture Studio is a proven technology having established efficiency with several large-scale projects in Eastern Europe Eastern Europe The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991. . FlexiCapture Studio allows users to specify which key elements to look for and describes how to locate the elements in a form or document after a specific key element is found. The relationships between elements and associated data are defined using logical concepts such as "above, below, right, left, before, after, closest to, and within the range." FlexiCapture Studio uses a unique, element-relationship algorithm to detect data fields. Unlike other approaches, which analyze separate elements one by one, FlexiCapture Studio uses whole sets of form elements and analyzes the relationship between them to identify the required fields. This drastically reduces the likelihood of error and speeds up the entire capture process. FlexiCapture Studio allows users to define a logical layout for documents of any type. Through the layout definition, FormReader and FineReader Engine know which key elements to look for and how to locate the data after the key elements are found. FlexiCapture technology frees users from the restrictions of template-based form matching, such as the reliance on exact placement of fields on a page. Thus, FlexiCapture-enabled capture solutions can find fields elsewhere, using any information available and are able to find and extract needed data and information from any type of form or document. Target Markets -- FlexiCapture Studio can be used by system integrators, software and consulting companies to create customized solutions for their clients or to develop their own products with flexible forms processing abilities for markets such as healthcare, finance, legal, and government, as well as corporate departments such as human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , accounting, marketing and sales. -- Companies and developers who are currently using ABBYY FormReader or FineReader Engine, interested in processing semi-structured documents, and those who are currently using products which offer fewer capabilities than FlexiCapture Studio. Key Features of FlexiCapture Studio -- Uses proven and established technology to describe layouts of semi-structured and flexible forms. -- Simplifies creation, editing and testing of flexible form descriptions with the help of a refined visualization environment. -- Creates FlexiLayouts in two ways: by using the program's dialog boxes or by writing code in FlexiCapture language. -- Uses an element-relationship-based algorithm to detect data fields, using whole sets of form elements to identify the required fields. -- Allows export of the same flexible form description into ABBYY FormReader and to ABBYY FineReader Engine. Key Benefits -- Developers can create their own products or customized solutions based on ABBYY technologies. Integrators can expand their business by offering a wide range of customization and implementation services for their clients. -- Wide application -- FlexiCapture Studio can be used to capture data from all kinds of semi-structured or flexible forms and documents, expanding a developer's ability to support new markets. -- FlexiCapture Studio can be adopted by users who have had no programming experience. -- Flexible layouts can be created in a matter of hours. System Requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. FlexiCapture Studio supports Pentium PC, 350MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. for Windows XP The previous client version of Windows. XP was a major upgrade to the client version of Windows 2000 with numerous changes to the user interface. XP improved support for gaming, digital photography, instant messaging, wireless networking and sharing connections to the Internet. , Pentium 200MHz for Windows 2000/NT 4.0; Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. XP, Microsoft Windows 2000, or Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (SP6 or later). Pricing and Availability FlexiCapture Studio for ABBYY FormReader Desktop Edition starts at $4995 for ten thousand pages per month (PPM) and is available now. FlexiCapture Studio for ABBYY FineReader Engine SDK will be available in the third quarter of 2004. For additional information please visit www.abbyyusa.com. About ABBYY USA ABBYY USA is a member of the ABBYY Software House Group, a world leader in document recognition and linguistic technologies. ABBYY specializes in the development of software for optical character recognition optical character recognition (OCR), method for the machine-reading of typeset, typed, and, in some cases, hand-printed letters, numbers, and symbols using optical sensing and a computer. (OCR), intelligent character recognition In computer science, intelligent character recognition (ICR) is an advanced optical character recognition (OCR) system that allows fonts and different styles of hand writing to be learned by a computer during processing to improve accuracy and recognition levels. (ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition or Image Character Recognition) The machine recognition of hand-printed characters as well as machine printing that is difficult to recognize. ), linguistics, semantics, and electronic lexicography lexicography, the applied study of the meaning, evolution, and function of the vocabulary units of a language for the purpose of compilation in book form—in short, the process of dictionary making. Early lexicography, practiced from the 7th cent. B.C. . Leading products from ABBYY include the FineReader line of OCR, ICR and barcode software, and FineReader development tools. Companies that license ABBYY OCR/ICR technologies include BenQ, C-Technologies, Cardiff Software, Cobra Technologies, Freedom Scientific, Kurzweil, Kofax Image Products, Legato (Legato Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA, www.legato.com) A leading provider of storage management and high-availability software founded in 1988 and acquired by EMC Corporation in 2003. Legato software, including Celestra data management (data mining, data migration, etc. Systems, Lexmark, Microtek, Mustek, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Optika, Panasonic, SER Ser serine. Ser abbr. serine SER smooth endoplasmic reticulum. Ser serine. Solutions, Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics (SEC, Hangul:삼성전자; KSE: 005930, KSE: 005935, LSE: SMSN, LSE: SMSD) is a South Korean multinational corporation and the world's largest and leading electronics and information technology company. , Sumitomo Electric Systems, and Umax. For more information about ABBYY, visit: www.abbyyusa.com or contact ABBYY USA, 3823 Spinnaker Ct., Fremont, CA 94538. Phone: (510) 226-6717. Fax: (510) 226-6069. E-mail: info@abbyyusa.com. |
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