SmartZone v3

Text and Handprint Recognition SDK

• Delivers unparalleled OCR accuracy
• Revolutionises forms processing applications
• Outperforms any other OCR technology – we challenge you to compare!

“SmartZone is the most accurate OCR technology we’ve seen in over 10 years.”

Features

Technical Notes

• Programming environments: Win32 visual development environments including Visual Studio 2008
• Sample code is included for: VB.NET, C#, VB, Delphi, VC++, HTML
• Object-oriented API for .NET users
• Deploys within .NET as a managed control and is fully compliant with .NET 2.0 and above
• Can also be used in any development environment that hosts ActiveX COM controls
• Can be used in a multi-threaded environment and perform synchronous thread-safe processing.
• Support user-specified debug logging levels
• Downloaded as a toolkit within the FormSuite forms processing SDK bundle that includes SmartZone, FormFix, ImagXpress, and ScanFix Xpress
• Both editions include 4 controls: SmartZone, ScanFix, ImagXpress, and TwainPRO
• Suitable for Client/server Web applications
• Perform operations on bitonal images (may be converted to bitonal from color sources)
• Two processing speeds are available (Standard and Professional editions)
• Free full-featured trial version available for immediate download

Zone Definition & Processing

• Perform recognition on defined zones
• Perform image cleanup on defined zones

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

• Support English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish languages
• Recognize text using pre-defined character sets, including uppercase, lowercase, mixed case alphabetic, digits, currency symbols, combined currency and digits, arithmetic symbols and punctuation characters
• Recognition can be limited to any customer-defined subset of the full character sets
• Simultaneously recognize characters from all supported languages
• Return confidence values for each individual character, as well as the complete OCR result, to help manage the recognition process
• Return multiple character results with associated confidence values
• Specify the rejection character provided when recognition of a character fails
• Specify the confidence level below which the rejection character is returned
• Specify recognition segmentation parameters

Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR)

• Recognize hand-printed American and European English characters using pre-defined character sets: uppercase, lowercase, mixed case alphabetic, digits, currency (including $ (dollar), ¢(cent) € (Euro) £ (pound), ¥(Yen)), arithmetic and punctuation characters (including period, comma, single quote, double quote, ! & ( ) ? @ { } \ # % * + - / : ; < = >).
• Tailor recognition results by specifying custom character sets containing only expected values
• Return confidence values for each individual character, as well as the complete ICR result, to help manage the recognition process
• Return alternate character results with associated confidence values
• Specify the rejection character provided when recognition of a character fails
• Specify the confidence level below which the rejection character is returned
• Specify recognition segmentation parameters
• Support English characters only

Image Input, Image Output, and Image Handling

• SmartZone includes ImagXpress Standard (read the full ImagXpress Standard product description) for basic image conversion, image processing, and TWAIN scanning
• Support image data transfer with other components

Bitonal Image Cleanup

• SmartZone Professional and Standard editions include ScanFix Xpress Lite (read the full ScanFix Xpress Lite features) for bitonal image cleanup technology such as deskew, despeckle, rotate, mirror, flip and more

Edition Descriptions

• SmartZone ICR / OCR Professional is designed for commercial forms processing application developers. Purchase of this edition will give you the full speed and power of SmartZone for both ICR and OCR, and will also include ImagXpress Standard and ScanFix Xpress Lite.
  
  

• SmartZone ICR / OCR Standard is designed for developers deploying a low volume forms processing solution. Purchase of this edition will limit SmartZone processing speed to 20% of the Professional edition. Purchase will include both ICR and OCR, ImagXpress Standard and ScanFix Xpress Lite.
  
  

• SmartZone OCR Professional is designed for commercial forms processing application developers. Purchase of this edition will give you the full speed and power of SmartZone, and will also include ImagXpress Standard and ScanFix Xpress Lite.
  
  

• SmartZone OCR Standard is designed for developers deploying a low volume forms processing solution. Purchase of this edition will limit SmartZone processing speed to 20% of the Professional edition. Purchase will include ImagXpress Standard and ScanFix Xpress Lite.
  
  

FormAssist Sample Application with Source Code

1. Quickly evaluate Pegasus Imaging’s forms processing technology, including:
   • Form identification (FormFix)
   • Form dropout (FormFix)
   • Zonal OCR (SmartZone)
   • Zonal ICR (SmartZone)
   • OMR mark recognition for check-boxes and bubbles (FormFix)
   • Image display and editing (ImagXpress)
   • Image cleanup (ScanFix Xpress)
2. Use FormAssist source code as a foundation for developing your production forms processing application:
   • Modular source code facilitates rapid development of form setup and forms processing solutions
   • Illustrates best practice for integration of Pegasus components and example workflow
   • Included in the FormSuite .NET toolkit download as C# source code
3. Quickly set up forms and processing instructions
   • Create, save, and manage form sets
   • Add form templates to form sets
   • Set up and add recognition fields to form templates
   • Configure properties for image cleanup, OCR, ICR, OMR, and processing
   • Process filled images to optimize settings for OCR, ICR,OMR, and form identification

Benefits

Accurate recognition reduces costs

Fewer errors mean less manual intervention and reduced operating cost. SmartZone internally employs multiple recognition engines to accurately recognize hand-printed (ICR) and machine-printed (OCR) characters. SmartZone employs advanced lexical analysis to achieve highly-accurate OCR results.

Report with confidence

SmartZone puts control of recognition in the hands of the user, by providing multiple character results and associated confidence values. The user decides the confidence level at which rejection characters are used.

Restrict character sets for improved accuracy

SmartZone gives you precise control over details such as character segmentation algorithms and allowed character sets, including: individual characters, uppercase, lowercase, mixed case alphabetic, digits, currency symbols, combined currency and digits, arithmetic symbols, and punctuation characters. The result is improved accuracy in each recognition field.

Tightly integrated with other Pegasus Imaging components

SmartZone was designed specifically to work with all FormSuite components, including ScanFix Xpress, Barcode Xpress and FormFix. Sending image clips and instructions between components is easy to implement and executes quickly. This architecture enables development of highly-evolved custom solutions that optimize accuracy. For example, OCR results can be evaluated to select image cleanup options, or to make other processing decisions.

Easy ICR and OCR for more solutions

SmartZone .NET and ActiveX COM components are so easy to drop into your applications, you’ll want to add character recognition to many new document workflow scenarios, such as form archiving, routing, distribution, pre-processing, and indexing.

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