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With an industry-leading OCR accuracy rate, SmartZone delivers the
World’s Best OCR Technology Available! Providing both zonal OCR
(optical character recognition of machine-printed text) and zonal
ICR (intelligent character recognition of hand-printed characters),
the SmartZone Software Development Kit (SDK) is used to build forms
processing applications within either .NET or ActiveX COM
development environments.
- Delivers unparalleled OCR accuracy
- Revolutionises forms processing applications
- Outperforms any other OCR technology – we challenge you to
compare!
Included Components
SmartZone v2, ImagXpress Standard v9, TwainPRO v5, ScanFix Xpress
Lite v5
“SmartZone is the most accurate OCR technology we’ve seen in over
10 years.”
Features
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 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
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Zone Definition & Processing |
- Perform recognition on defined zones
- Perform image cleanup on defined zones
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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
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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
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Image Input, Image Output, and Image Handling |
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Bitonal Image Cleanup |
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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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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FormAssist Sample Application with Source Code |
- 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)
- 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
- 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
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Benefits
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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| For more information please contact the MicroWay sales
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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 |
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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 |
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International: call +61 3 9580 1333, fax +61 3 9580 8995
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