excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% Pre-processing forms is essential Summary: Pre-processing forms is essential. Sequoia Data specializes in software solutions for pre-processing images in order to make automated forms processing practical. One of the most significant hindrances to OCR accuracy is skew. Pre-processing is an essential ingredient of successful forms processing. Sequoia Data specializes in image enhancement and forms processing technologies. 93% Table of Contents Summary: . . . . . 92% News Shorts 4-7-97 Summary: ORACLE TO INTEGRATE IA'S REMITVISION. RemitVision, from IA Corp. INTERTECH'S DOCUPACT SUPPORTS DIGITAL'S. Alpha 5/440-based NT Network Server. SCANNING A HALF-BILLION DOCUMENTS. 90% Forms processing A market takes shape As the... Summary: In fact, the paper forms industry now refers to itself as the forms and systems industry. The forms automation marketplace. Pricing: the new differentiator. There is also an annual maintenance fee of 15% of system cost. Prices vary. 89% Automated cleanup rids systems of worthless im... Summary: Future forms will be measured against that form and will be adjusted for skew and other attributes against the original form. "This is especially important when you are doing recognition on particular zones on a form," says Macciola. The forms recognition capability will also scale the image to match the form. For example, contrast may be more important than skew, but OCR readabiliy in a... 88% A database engine designed for imaging Summary: They are the image filing system (IFS) and the database management system (DBMS). System requirements.. Image filing system (IFS) criteria. The IFS should link individual pages to the entire document. If the requested image is page 50 of a 100-page document, only page 50 need be retrieved, not the entire document. 87% An essential ingredient: Post recognition processing Summary: Assuming an equal distribution of unrecognized characters in all fields, a field level accuracy rate can be calculated by taking the character level accuracy rate to the power of the number of characters in a particular field. Character level accuracy rates may be above 80% and field level accuracy rates can still be as low as only 20%. Post recognition processing is essential to ensure the... 87% Reading the hard stuff....forms Summary: Column 4 always says "TO". recognition. Why isn't voting multiple recognition engines enough? Forms processing packages try to remove lines, since they confuse most OCR engines. Only Line Avoidance gets it right. 87% Smashing the traditional roadblocks of ... ... Summary: For OCR or other recognition applications, grayscale images contain much more data to work with than bitonal images. The two major roadblocks for grayscale scanning have traditionally been scanner technologies and computer technologies. Technology advances. Previously, scanner technology could not effectively handle grayscale because it was not designed for grayscale output. There are plenty of... 86% Bigger, better, faster, cheaper High-speed s... Summary: Image quality is affected by image enhancement. * a background concern that producing the images will increase the cost to unacceptable levels. * cost. * Better image enhancement. Data prep is reduced if pages can be automatically turned. 85% Capturing your healthcare data Summary: Error type 1: A correct character that is flagged. Error type 2: A wrong character that is flagged. If the OCR/ICR gets a character wrong, you want it to tell you, so you can clean it up. Error type 3: A wrong character that is unflagged (substitution error). Error type 4: The original data is wrong. 85% InputAccel Summary: * Products. * Process flexibility. * Functionality. * customize the application to fit users' specific needs. Currently, in addition to modules provided by other companies, available modules include: * InputAccel/Scan * InputAccel/Image Enhancement * InputAccel/Indexing and Quality Assurance * InputAccel/Re-scan * InputAccel/OCR * InputAccel/OCR... 85% ElectroCom Imaging: The Big Secret Summary: At this time ECI offers two major product lines: AEG Recognition, a world-renowned family of integrated ICR/OCR engines, and the IntelliScan 120/240 family of high-performance document scanners. The AEG Recognition offers commercially the underlying technology that automatically reads the myriad pieces of US mail at very high speed. If the mail is readable, the machines apply ICR/OCR to it. A... 84% OTG Software Summary: OTG Software specializes in the development and distribution of document management, mass storage and COLD software solutions for Windows and Windows NT. With headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, OTG has sales and distribution partners worldwide. 84% The next level of imaging: Automated information capture Summary: Automated. information capture. A well-planned document scanning, indexing, and image processing system brings automation to this process. Batch processing automates the scanning, image processing, indexing and information extraction by first organizing the documents into similar work processes and sequences. Document Capture Process. 84% TAWPI forum targets savvy niche market Summary: Imaging World, September 1st, 1996. TAWPI forum targets savvy niche market. Remittance and forms processing share spotlight. Among the users at the forum, confidence in forms processing technology seems to be at an all-time high. Another TAWPI highlight was Microsystems Technology's (Tampa, FL) OCR for Forms forms processing software. 84% Product debuts energize Expo'96 Summary: Several exhibitors will be introducing new products, upgrades and innovative software and systems solutions at ImagingExpo'96. Among the product launches is a "new" company that is grabbing a lot of headlines recently. The line will be demonstrated for the first time in the Lucent booth. Several new 32-bit software modules will appear at the 'Expo for the first time. Datacap (Tarrytown, NY) will... 84% Banking-How to reduce front-window costs Summary: front-window costs. Those front-window capture costs can be quite onerous, and depending on the line of business, can involve substantial costs. The difference is that the capture costs for international services will be higher per transaction than credit card costs. Credit card mail usually involves one or two pages (application, customer correspondence) and does not have the same document... 84% Scanner/Web/VAR Beats Summary: Intrafed continues on the scene. BancTec announced a distribution agreement with TextWare. The Web beat. "We believe that publishing on- and off-line go hand in hand on the Web and CD, and we believe that automating the process is critical to the success of the project." Now they are asking how to solve problems." 84% Recognition experts move down-market Summary: In concert with the pricing announcement, ElectroCom unveiled enhancements to one of its two primary product lines, AEG Recognition, an integrated family of ICR/OCR engines. It also announced IntelliDoc Pro, Version 1.0, a new product line based on AEG Recognition. ElectroCom Imaging was formed in 1995 as a division of ElectroCom Automation. AEG Recognition, Version 5.0 is the latest enhancement...
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