ABBYY FORM READER
If you have forms printed on the paper from different sources, and the principle fields are positioned differently on them, then you are dealing with a flexible form. The simplest example of such a form is invoice. Till now it was impossible to process such flexible forms, but now you have a software solution for this complicated task û ABBYY FormReader.
ABBYY FlexiForms method of searching for fields is similar to one we humans use. You just have to tell
ABBYY FormReader once how to find all the fields on your document. The description looks like ½the field is marked by word "ZIP"╗. It can be the case that this word is missing, so you may want to give the application some additional tips, such as ½a black line is very likely to be on the left and the text below may be something like "Street address"╗.
Using α description of this kind ABBYY FlexiForms searches for data on your forms. The set of such descriptions of a form is called a flexible template.
The development of a template for flexible form is a complicated task requiring intrinsic knowledge FlexiForms technology. But this is no problem, as our developers are always ready to design any template you need.
ABBYY FlexiForms technology, if implemented for your forms, makes it possible to apply all the capabilities of
ABBYY FormReader form input, including scanning, verification, validation rules, etc.
This technology can be also applied to legacy forms, i.e. forms created not for machine-input, but which need to be processed.
Not only form processing task, but also image-indexing problem may be solved using
ABBYY FlexiForms, since ABBYY FormReader can find the indexed field elsewhere on your images.
Examples
FlexiForms technology was applied to a great variety of documents that come from different countries of the world:
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Polish hand-written banking bills;
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Russian payment drafts;
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International VISA slips;
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Ukrainian pay bills;
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Lithuanian library cards;
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bank transfer document used in Belgium (two families: the ones in BEF, the other ones in EUR),
and many others.
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