• OMR Technology
  The OMR technology allows user to read the check boxes, that is the sign affixed in predefined spaces. The power of this engine, compared to similar products, is the advantage of working with two operative parameters, evaluating the quantity of existing ink and the size of the sign in the box;
   
• ICR Technology:
  With ICR system it's possible to recognize manuscript data in unconstrained or constrained mode when there is usually space among characters. The engine has been expressly trained on the European and American writing style with an high accuracy.
   
• BCR Technology:
  The BCR Technology allows the recognition of bar codes, decoding their content. It recognizes all the standard bar codes, enclosed the pharmaceutical ones.
   
• OCR Technology:
  It's the recognition technology for printed and typed texts. It's omnifont and it can recognize characters having any font style and size.
   
• OCR-A Technology:
  This engine works on pre-printed OCR-A codelines of postal and banking documents;
   
• OCR-B Technology:
  This engine works on pre-printed OCR-B codelines of postal and banking documents;
   
• MICR CMC7 - E13B Technology:
  This engines works on pre-printed CMC7 or E13B check codelines.
   
• CHR Technology:
  It allows user to read manuscript data in cursive written (natural writing not in capital letters): what was only imaginary a few years ago, now it's real. This feature is essential for reading forms that haven't been expressly designed for the automatic acquisition and contain unconstrained fields, freely written, without any tie.
  
  
• AMK Technology:
  The AMR allows you to perform the assisted manual data-entry for data you can't or you don't want to read automatically;
   
• IDE Technology:
  Through the IDE system it's possible to export page zones or whole pages in image format. It's very useful when you need to keep portions of forms containing signatures, sketches, drafts or other information, without modifying anything of their characteristics or structure.

Both versions use a a job-oriented approach, grouping documents in batches. A batch can contain any number of documents. Each batch's process is structured as follows:

• Images input (scanning or importing files)
• Pre-processing (deskew, despeckle, form-removal, etc.)
• Automatic reading (CHR, OCR, ICR, BCR, OMR, etc.)
• Suspicious characters verification (Eye Blow Verification®)
• Fields correction (comparison between data and image)
• Post-processing (data transformation and normalization)
• Data output (storing in files or in databases).

Main Features
In order to better explain the main features of Recogniform Reader, let's follow a "step by step" approach, following the production steps described above. For more details on technical infos, please give a look to the specific pages of Recogniform Desktop and Recogniform Workgroup Reader.

Step 0. Template definition

• Definition of fields areas
• Simple Visual interface
• Definition of form global parameters
• Definition of fields pre-processing parameters
• Definition of fields processing parameters
• Definition of fields post-processing parameters
• Customization via script
• Possibility to implement external DLLs
• Rules for recognition/correction
• Use of not-optimized forms for optical recognition: YES.

c 1. Input

• Input from scanner
• Input from file .TIF, .JPG, .BMP, .PDF
• Input by automatic directory monitoring
• Input by fax
• Input from internet (TCP/IP)
• Set of the batch priority*
• Set of the batch max no. of images*
• Number of Input stations: UNLIMITED*

Step 2. Recognition

• Setting of advanced pre-processing parameters:
  - Color filtering
  - Color inversion
  - Vertical lines removal
  - Horizontal lines removal
  - Intrusins removal
  - Characters boxes removal
  - Field Boxes removal
  - Reconnection of crossed characters
  - Despeckle
  - Black border removal
  - Form auto-orientation
  - Form auto-alignment
  - Global Deskew (form)
  - Local deskew (field)
  - Characters smoothing
  - Dynamic thresholding
  - Template auto-identification
  

• Setting of optical recognition engines:
  - BCR recognition engine (Barcode). Speed: UNLIMITED
  - ICR recognition engine (handwritten chracters). Speed: UNLIMITED
  - OCR recognition engine (printed text). Speed: UNLIMITED
  - OCR recognition engine (printed text with OCR-A/B font). Speed: UNLIMITED
  - MICR CMC7/E13B recognition engine (codelines printed with CMC7/E13B font). Speed: UNLIMITED
  - CHR recognition engine (curive handwritten text). Speed: UNLIMITED
  

Step 3. Correction

• E.B.V.® (Eye Blow Verification)
• Visual assisted verify
• Text-to-Speech integrated
• Trigrams
• Dynamic Look-up
• Link to every DBMS
• Compressed dictionaries
• Rules customizable via script
• Overlay (see the form with blind colors)
• Number of Correction stations: UNLIMITED*

Step 4. Output

• Release data and normalization;
• Save images in the preferred directory
• Statistics per form, user, day, etc.
• Release data on files:
  -  .txt, .csv, .xls, .html, .htm, .pdf, .mdb, .tab, .slk, .sylk, .xml, .tsv, .sql, .dbf, .db, pdf ricercabile
• Release data on database
  - Oracle, Interbase, Sybase, SQL Server, Access, ODBC Compatibili, Paradox, dBase, FoxPro, Db2