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- From: tscwhitehead@cc.weber.edu (Clarke Whitehead)
- Subject: Re: Form processing
- Message-ID: <8JAN199316530329@cc.weber.edu>
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- Organization: Weber State University
- References: <C0Js35.1CtB@austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 16:53 MST
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- In article <C0Js35.1CtB@austin.ibm.com>, larryhow@austin.ibm.com () writes...
- >What is the best solution for processing order forms in a PC environment?
- >Scanning hardware: a IBM-PC compatible with an HP-IIc scanner.
- >Is the best approach?
- > a) use an OCR program (which one?) and setup templates
- > b) a dedicated form processing application (does one exist?)
- > c) manually type the information in?
- > d) something else
-
- Your request doesn't include enough information to determine this. Are
- the forms hand printed, typed, various sources or types? What types of
- information are on a form? You may have to do some time/motion studies
- to determine which is faster. OCR software is not 100% accurate even
- when used with a single standard typewritten font. How critical is
- accuracy? Is the text mingled with graphics like form lines, etc?
-
- >
- >How should the form be structured to make it easily read?
- >(i.e. Fill in the blank, circle number,..)
-
- Again, depends on the source. For hand-filled forms, mark-sense forms
- (like class test sheets) are probably the most accurately read type of
- hand-filled form. Hand-filled text forms, have much lower accuracy and
- are awkward to fill out.
-
- >
- >The order form may also contain an image.
- >
- >Is there a program which can handle both, form processing & image
- >storage/enhancement or should these be broken into 2 steps?
-
- I've seen high end archiving systems that claim to be able to do that to
- some degree, but they're expensive and the accuracy is questionable.
-
- Clarke
-
-