excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% 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? 93% 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... 90% 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. 90% 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... 90% Adobe Acrobat performs even more tricks Summary: PDF and HTML files becoming equally accessible. Adobe claims that Acrobat 3.0 is the fastest way to publish any document on-line. This ability to download and display PDF files as individual pages is one of the upgraded product's greatest strengths. Users will be able to retrieve and view only the pages they want to see in a given document. Further, Amber optimizes documents in Adobe's PDF... 89% 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. 89% Adobe and 20 vendors team for paper-to-Web so... Summary: Adobe and 20 vendors team. for paper-to-Web solutions. By Tony McKinley On March 31, Adobe Systems (San Jose) announced teaming arrangements with more than 20 vendors to capitalize on Acrobat Capture to bring paper documents to the Web. DOCUMENT CAPTURE. What's completely new and different about the announcement is that huge numbers of Adobe Acrobat users are already in place. 89% 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. 88% 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." 87% Exclusive Acrobat 3 preview Summary: By Tony McKinley Acrobat 3 from Adobe Systems (Mountain View, CA) is brimming with capabilities, and everything--including the core Portable Document Format itself--has been improved in this latest release. The functionality packed into Acrobat 3 makes it a superior bargain at SRP of $300, or $1,600 for the 10-user version. Acrobat 3 is primarily a set of tools for creating PDF documents, which... 86% 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% 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... 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% 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% Forms processing primer Summary: Forms processing primer. What, then, is forms processing? The ability to easily train the system to read forms is also important. The ability to process multiple forms at once (e. 6. Some forms-processing systems provide the ability to perform data validation checks at the point of data capture. 84% 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. 84% MostImportantProds96 Summary: The most important products of 1996 (so far). Lava Systems' Lava 4.3 release has all three functions available in one software product. Its indexing module creates pointers to any kind of document the same way it creates pointers to scanned images. It's 4.6 GB, 5.25 inches and is rewritable! It was available before, but this year it has really turned into a full-function product. 84% 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. 84% 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. 83% Search specialization The leading text retrieva Summary: Imaging World, April 7th, 1997. Search specialization. The leading text retrieval vendors all offer a different spin on searching. The same interface and index is used throughout, scaling from the desktop to the Web. Dataware is also one of the few vendors to offer semantic searching through thesaurus and dictionaries.
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