excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% OCR for Win 95: Comparing Caere OmniPage 7 and Xerox TextBridge 96 Summary: OCR is a very demanding task, and multiprocessing is not an option, it's a requirement. After a page or two of checking correct "errors," you have the option of only checking the worst "errors." The display window and the Soundex correction screens are very helpful. This measures every time a user would be faced with an error in a spell checker and the obvious errors that the spell checker... 93% Character recognition vs. content recognition Summary: Imaging World, October 21st, 1996. In Adobe's definition, "imaging" refers to the process of creating page images, bit by bit. In addition, Capture is designed to fit text into the exact space it occupied in the original document. Acrobat Capture is designed to treat unrecognizable text as pasted-in images, and often areas treated this way are not even output to the text file. recognition take? 89% 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. 86% Desktop imaging redux Summary: Upon installation, Imaging Pro automatically creates scan icons in the Word and Excel toolbars. * Runs in a Web browser. Imaging Pro not only runs as a Windows 95 or NT desktop executable, it runs inside the Internet Explorer Web browser, too. * Web link annotations. Clicking on the link annotation in the image viewer displays the linked document, if necessary launching the browser and retrieving... 86% Convergence of technologies results in rich We... Summary: "The fastest growing collection of documents in a corporation is its Web site. PDF problem, comparing our content." and fourth is long documents. We believe these applications are better served by Acrobat solutions." Informix's Universal Server. 86% 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% New Acrobat 3.0 is a watershed in Web document Summary: The Verity Search engine is then available to Acrobat users on a network to retrieve documents through the Catalog index (Search can be licensed for CD distribution at $500 per title). Forms processing functions. Two completely new functions that have been added to Acrobat 3 are Forms and Dynamic Controls. The forms tool is full-featured and easy to use. The Movie tool applies this same simple... 85% Caere to acquire Recognita Summary: In addition, the acquisition advances its goal to be a source of OCR technology for strategic manufacturers worldwide. A global OCR strategy. With the acquisition, Caere will be positioned as a global OCR provider with recognition technologies for more than 100 languages, from Arabic to Swahili. The acquisition will provide Caere a local office in Eastern Europe, the first step in leveraging... 85% 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." 85% Wang Payback in a day Summary: Wang: Payback in a day?. By Tony McKinley Wang Software's Pro Imaging for Windows package is aimed squarely at meeting the needs of millions of desktop users. Selling software on the Web. Wang selling personal software is a stunning departure from Wang's heritage. Wang's mission with this product is to sell it directly over the Web. 84% When forms processing pays Summary: Forms processing pays for itself when there is a good "fit-to-function." Forms processing pays for itself when there is a good "fit-to-function." Forms processing pays when it is easy to fix errors. Full-context editing displays images of forms side by side with questionable data highlighted on the screen. This allows operators to view and edit questionable characters in the full context of... 83% Drawing a document technology roadmap Summary: document management and electronic delivery. Document management for authoring or delivery? Tools for communicating and coordinating are perhaps more important, too, since authoring is more collaborative than viewing or delivering documents. Standards impact document delivery and management at the document, application, and communications levels. They are also the systems of choice for Web-only... 82% large-format capture Color brightens the sca... Summary: CalComp 800-932-1212 www.calcomp.SGI-scanners. Feeder scanners offer a maximum resolution up to 400 dpi. It is suitable for use in high volume production environments. 82% News Shorts 12-16-96 Summary: .. Giga doles gold. PC Docs partners have ESP. Each of the software companies is delivering solutions that integrate with DOCS Open. ISIS not lacking Imagination. IMAGinE with Pixel engines is available from Imagination Software at prices starting at $1,000. 82% The latest news in ... Scanners Trend Applicat... Summary: Speed. * Is the scanner simplex or duplex? For the OCR accuracy test, we scanned sets of test documents of varying weights, qualities and text sizes. All scanners provide default settings to simplify configuration. Some scanners can detect misfeeds and doubles. 82% "Outsmarting" the engines: Smart HTML vs. spamdexing Summary: So, Rule #1 is to pick the subject of your page and concentrate on it. So, Rule #2 is a title and heading that describe the core offerings of the page. So, Rule #3 is to use meta tags. To spam or not to spam. On the hit list, these spam pages stand out. 82% 1996 the year in products Summary: From 1996 we've chosen a dozen (or so) products that burned brightly. Imagination Software (Silver Spring, MD) was another vendor embracing ActiveX in '96. A late-year hardware introduction (also by Kofax) was a product standout in 1996. Still, he sees production imaging's dominance continuing in the coming year. That, she points out, "is sort of dichotomous." 81% HP replaces network scanner Summary: Imaging World, March 3rd, 1997. HP replaces network scanner. Billing the new ScanJet 5 as "the digital on-ramp" to a network, Hewlett-Packard (HP, Palo Alto, CA) offers not only document conversion (at 15 ppm) but also logical routing directly into applications on a networked user's desktop. The 300-dpi Network ScanJet 5 ($3,000)­a 4Si replacement­ offers an enhanced control panel, a... 81% Caere MSeries II Production OCR on NT Server Summary: Production OCR on NT Server. The roots of high-performance OCR servers go back to the original Palantir Corp.' The M/Series II Board serves the needs of a large, stable market. NT Server OCR software. WordScan is a proven solution. 81% The next logical step to keyless data entry Summary: The earlier an error is detected, the cheaper it is to correct it. The earlier an error is de- tected, the cheaper it is to correct it. Rejects must be corrected. Cost to Correct Rejects. The better the recognition accuracy, the fewer rejects to be corrected.
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