ABBYY Launches FormReader 6.5 in North America; Truly Unified Data Capture Platform Supports a Wide Range of Form Processing Functions.FREMONT, Calif. -- ABBYY Software House, a leading provider of document recognition and linguistic technologies, today announced North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. availability of ABBYY FormReader 6.5, a feature and functionality enhancement to ABBYY's turnkey forms processing solution. The FormReader 6.5 release adds support for new document input and output formats and new add-on options, functions that enhance the versatility of the software platform. With the option of adding FlexiCapture technology, FormReader is capable of processing both fixed and semi-structured forms in one batch without pre-sorting. All these features, combined with options for distributed processing The first term used to describe the distribution of multiple computers throughout an organization in contrast to a centralized system. It started with the first minicomputers. Today, distributed processing is called "distributed computing." See also client/server. across an enterprise and customization through an easily accessible API, make the ABBYY FormReader platform one of the most flexible platforms for data capture available in a single, unified environment. Based on ABBYY's award-winning technology, FormReader offers cutting-edge 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. , 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. , OMR (Optical Mark Reader) A scanner that reads marks on specific areas of the page. See mark sensing. OMR - Optical Mark Reader , and OBR OBR Ohio Board of Regents OBR Online Banking Report OBR Ortsbeirat (German: Municipal Advisory Council) OBR Optimized Background Regimen (used in HIV treatment) OBR Optical Backscatter Reflectometer technologies to extract key pieces of data from forms for export to a variety of databases and information management systems. An out-of-box solution, FormReader offers helpful tools to make the process of setting up a form processing solution simple, allowing companies and integrators to deploy a system without a significant investment in IT resources. Powerful functions for fixed form template design and creation, validation, and verification, give FormReader all of the core functionality required for efficient data capture. In addition, ABBYY FormReader is based on an expandable, modular architecture, making it simple to extend the system to support a variety of options, tasks, enterprise configurations, and document types. ABBYY FormReader is available in three versions: --FormReader Desktop Edition, basic fixed-form processing for small to mid-sized work groups on a desktop computer; --FormReader Enterprise Edition, a client-server based product designed for regular or daily high volume processing and advanced features to support distributed document processing Processing text documents, which includes indexing methods for text retrieval based on content. See document imaging. , network administration and roll-out, and license management; --FormReader Developer Edition, an API for customization or integration of FormReader into other applications. New Features in FormReader 6.5 With the introduction of FormReader 6.5, ABBYY offers the following new options for FormReader customers: --Multi-page Document Assembly -- ABBYY FormReader Desktop Edition is now enriched with multi-page document support, previously available only with FormReader Enterprise Edition. ABBYY FormReader will correctly assemble and sort these documents and export them so that multiple pages of data can be easily assigned to a single table string or database record. Document assembly accuracy is checked by using a special link field. --PDF Support -- available in two new add-on modules for PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. -- PDF Opening and PDF Saving. The PDF Opening module allows customers to input data from forms and documents scanned as PDF files. The PDF Saving module allows users to save original form images back into the PDF image format. --High Production Scanning Via ISIS Scanners -- also available as a new add-on module. FormReader now supports input from scanners using the ISIS scanning interface. This makes it possible for FormReader to work seamlessly with high speed, high production scanners commonly used by organizations such as business process outsourcing Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the contracting of a specific business task, such as payroll, to a third-party service provider. Usually, BPO is implemented as a cost-saving measure for tasks that a company requires but does not depend upon to maintain its position in (BRO bro n. pl. bros Slang 1. A brother. 2. Friend; pal. Used as a form of familiar address for a man or boy: So long, bro. ) companies. --Visual Basic Script Support for Validation Rule A Validation rule is a criterion used in the process of data validation, carried out after the data has been encoded onto an input medium and involves a data vet or validation program. Creation -- FormReader's powerful set of options for creating rules used for automatic validation of recognized data, is now even easier to customize. Administrators can now create any rule by using the Visual Basic Script (language) Visual BASIC Script - (VBScript) Microsoft's scripting language which is an extension of their Visual Basic language. VBScript can be used with Microsoft Office applications and others. It can also be embedded in web pages but can only be understood by Internet Explorer. programming language. --Semi-structured Document Support Via FlexiCapture Studio 1.5 -- FormReader 6.5 now supports semi-structured form and document processing through support for FlexiCapture Studio 1.5, also released today. FlexiCapture Studio is an easy-to-use tool that allows integrators and administrators to create FlexiLayouts, intelligent form definitions that allow FormReader to find necessary field data on a document even when the location of the field varies from document to document, or page to page. This add-on module allows FormReader to process both fixed forms and semi-structured forms such as invoices, shipping orders, and loan documents in one batch. New features supported through FlexiCapture Studio 1.5 (and thus through FormReader 6.5) include table support, texture filtering In computer graphics, texture filtering is the method used to determine the texture color for a texture mapped pixel, using the colors of nearby texels (pixels of the texture). In short, it blends the texture pixels together by breaking them up into tinier pixels. , and multiple language selection for pre-recognition. In addition to the previous enhancements to FormReader's core functionality, the following new features are available via FormReader Enterprise Edition: --Export via OLE DB (OLE DataBase) A programming interface for data access from Microsoft. It is a COM object that functions in a similar manner to ODBC, but for every type of data source, not just SQL databases. -- provides direct uniform access to data stored in diverse information sources. --eFormDesigner -- a new add-on module for creation and testing of electronic forms. To simplify the initial steps of establishing a form processing system, the electronic forms can be created automatically on the base of paper form blanks created in FormDesigner. With eFormDesigner, administrators can expand the capabilities of the system so that any form type -- scanned paper document or electronic form -- can be processed using the FormReader system. eFormDesigner ships with eFormFiller a module that makes filling out forms created with eFormDesigner, comfortable and easy. --Enhanced Network Configuration Functions -- including remote installation and upgrade of new workstations using the Active Directory. Flexible Platform to Support a Wide Range of Documents With a powerful core platform and wide variety of add-on options, ABBYY FormReader 6.5 can support processing of a variety of forms and documents such as applications, tax declarations, questionnaires, etc. FormReader products and technologies are already in use around the world by such organizations as banks, insurance and law companies, marketing and polling agencies, government establishments, and educational institutions. With the addition of FlexiCapture technology, the FormReader platform additionally supports processing of invoices, financial reports, letters, agreements, and documents with tagged headers and footers, making it an all-encompassing solution for processing forms of all types. Partner Programs ABBYY FormReader products are sold through select certified VARs, integrators and resellers. ABBYY offers a comprehensive training and certification program for partners designed to demonstrate how to take advantage of FormReader's tools for easy system deployment The deployment of a mechanical device, electrical system, computer program, etc., is its assembly or transformation from a packaged form to an operational working state. Deployment implies moving a product from a temporary or development state to a permanent or desired state. and customization. Partners can further enhance their businesses by using ABBYY FlexiCapture Studio to expand FormReader capabilities for their customers. Pricing and Availability ABBYY FormReader 6.5 is available immediately. For pricing and a trial version, please contact ABBYY's local office or your nearest ABBYY partner, for additional product information go to www.ABBYY.com. About ABBYY ABBYY (ABBYY Software House) develops linguistic and Artificial Intelligence (AI) software providing a full line of OCR and text-processing programs and solutions. ABBYY's products include: FineReader OCR systems -- a family of end user programs and development tools for recognition of printed texts, tables and forms; FormReader -- an ICR program for recognition and processing of hand-printed forms; and ABBYY Retrieval & Morphology Engine -- a set of developer's tools for integration of full-text search A search that compares every word in a document, as opposed to searching an abstract or a set of keywords associated with the document. Word processors and text editors contain full-text search functions that let you find a word or phrase anywhere in the document. and linguistic capabilities into external applications. Companies that license ABBYY recognition technologies include Siemens Nixdorf See Fujitsu Siemens. , 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. , C-Technologies, Sumitomo Electric Systems, Banctec, BenQ, Documentum, EPSON EPSON Son of Electronic Printer , Freedom Scientific, Hewlett-Packard, Kurzweil, Kofax, Microtek, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Panasonic, Stellent, Toshiba, Verity, Neurascript, Saperion, and SWT SWT - Standard Widget Toolkit . ABBYY Group Headquarters are located in Moscow with offices in Ukraine (ABBYY Ukraine), the USA (ABBYY USA, Fremont, CA), the UK (ABBYY UK, Bishops Stortford, England), and Germany (ABBYY Europe, Munich). For more information about ABBYY, please visit the company's website at www.ABBYY.com. ABBYY and FineReader names and logos are registered trademarks of ABBYY Software House. Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies and are hereby recognized. |
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