FormFix 3

FormFix delivers both .NET and ActiveX COM components offering bitonal template-based form identification, form registration, form drop out, and OMR technology to developers of forms processing applications. Highly flexible and optimised for speed, FormFix’s superior form recognition and form registration improve ICR, OCR, and OMR accuracy. It easily interfaces with Pegasus recognition engines (see FormSuite), and with any recognition engine supporting memory-to-memory data transfers. ImagXpress and ScanFix Xpress are included with FormFix for image handling, advanced image cleanup, and TWAIN scanning.


 

New Features in FormFix 3 • New Object-Oriented .NET Controls • New ActiveX COM Controls • More Advanced Development Tools • Improved OMR • Easier Integration With Other Pegasus Imaging Toolkits • New File Format Support, Improved Image Handling, Scanning Support, and More • Improved Image Cleanup • Substantially Improved Deskew Algorithms • Easier Evaluation Process • Updated Sample Code and Documentation

Designed to enable production-level forms processing applications, FormFix technology was used in the largest data capture project in history, the Decennial Census.

FormFix v3 is the upgrade path for customers currently using form recognition, form registration, form drop out, and OMR of bitonal images within the Prizm IP, FormFix v2.8x, or SmartScan Xpress ICR/OCR/OMR products.

Included Components
FormFix Professional - FormFix Professional v3, ScanFix Xpress Bitonal v5, ImagXpress Document v8, NotateXpress v8, ThumbnailXpress v1, TwainPRO v4, PrintPRO v3, FormDirector v1
FormFix Standard - FormFix Standard v3 (delayed to processing forms at a speed of approximately 5 seconds per page), ScanFix Xpress Lite v5, ImagXpress Standard v8, TwainPRO v4, FormDirector v1

Ultimate Flexibility in Forms Processing
Pegasus Imaging integrates its superior FormFix form matching, registration and dropout technologies with our proven ScanFix image cleanup and new, high-accuracy SmartZone ICR and OCR recognition to let you build highly-optimised solutions for processing forms.

Incoming scanned or faxed images can be identified by FormFix, which can rapidly match the form to one of thousands of form templates. Specific ScanFix cleanup functions can be applied to each form or region, in any combination, yielding images that are optimised for accurate ICR and OCR by SmartZone.

Tight integration of all Pegasus components makes building sophisticated forms processing applications easier than ever. Complete workflow flexibility allows developers to customise all processing steps to maximise quality and accuracy for each individual form and field. Download FormSuite now, and let your imagination be your only limitation!

Benefits

Rapid form identification
FormFix rapidly matches incoming images to the correct form in the form set. Advanced proprietary algorithms are applied to avoid exponentially-increasing processing time often associated with large form databases. This makes FormFix the perfect solution for high-volume form identification.

Accurate identification and registration
FormFix includes automatic scaling, rotation, and warp-compensation algorithms to accurately identify incoming forms and precisely register them against template images. Accurate registration results in improved OCR and OMR accuracy.

Registration marks not required
You don’t need control over the design of forms to obtain accurate registration with your template images. Since FormFix automatically catalogues the unique identifying features of each template provided, your forms don’t require targets, cross-hairs, or other marks. You can operate with forms from any source, and do not need to add the clutter of additional marks to obtain precise registration.

Dropout improves recognition accuracy
FormFix template form dropout, with scaling, character repair, confidence reporting and other advanced features, leaves you with clean images of the variable data fields that yield far more accurate recognition results.

Tightly integrated with other Pegasus Imaging components
FormFix was designed specifically to work with other FormSuite components, including ScanFix and SmartZone. Sending image clips and instructions between components is easy to implement and executes quickly. This architecture enables development of highly-evolved custom solutions that optimise accuracy.

Flexible OMR features for fast, accurate recognition
Advanced OMR features include support for grids of bubbles arranged in rows and columns, multiple arrays of bubbles in various orientations on a single image, specification of bubble shapes, customisable minimum confidence thresholds, and prioritised recognition of multiple marks in each array. These features make it easy to specify how forms are processed, and improve the speed and accuracy of mark recognition.

For more information please contact the MicroWay sales team:
Head Office MicroWay Pty Ltd PO Box 84, Braeside, Victoria, 3195, Australia Ph: 1300 553 313 Fax: 1300 132 709 email: sales@microway.com.au ABN: 56 129 024 825	Sydney Sales Office MicroWay Pty Ltd PO Box 1733, Crows Nest, NSW 1585, Australia Tel: 1300 553 313 Fax: 1300 132 709 email: sales@microway.com.au ABN: 56 129 024 825	New Zealand Sales Office MicroWay Pty Ltd (NZ) PO Box 912026 Victoria Street West Auckland 1142, New Zealand Tel: 0800 450 168 email: sales@microway.co.nz
International: call +61 3 9580 1333, fax +61 3 9580 8995