[Overview]

With the FormFix SDK, you can build powerful forms processing applications that include form recognition, registration, and dropout, along with image cleanup and OMR (optical mark recognition for check boxes, bubbles, etc).

Designed for production-level forms processing, FormFix technology was chosen for the largest data capture project in history, the Decennial Census, and is being used again in 2010.

Visit the Demo page to see it in action or to install a demonstration program, or download the FormSuite SDK to compile and run sample code, and develop your own forms processing solution.

[Featrues]

   Form Setup

   ■ API for setting up fields, form templates, and form sets
   ■ Define OMR, text, image, and custom fields on each form
   ■ Architecture allows flexible order of operations
　

   Form Identification

   ■ Match forms with user-defined templates and return confidence values
   ■ Quickly identify one of thousands of different forms
   ■ Automatic identification without the need for registration or anchor marks

   ■ Match forms that are rotated 90, 180, or 270 degrees from template image
   ■ Match forms scaled from 90% to 110% of the template size
   ■ Match forms scanned at 50% to 150% of the template resolution
   ■ Match forms skewed up to 20 degrees
   ■ Limit matching to a subset of templates
   ■ Set the level of effort for form matching
   ■ Set minimum acceptable confidence level for form matching
   ■ Return up to 100 alternative form matches of lower certainty



   Image Cleanup

   ■ FormFix Professional includes ScanFix Xpress (full product description) for advanced color and bitonal image cleanup, including automatic binarization, deskew, despeckle, dot shading removal, line removal, character smoothing, inverse text correction, hole punch removal, etc.
   ■ FormFix Standard includes basic cleanup features of ImagXpress Standard (full product description) for bitonal image cleanup, including automatic binarization, deskew, despeckle, rotate, mirror.

   OMR (Optical Mark Recognition)

   ■ Detect the presence of marks or characters (i.e. for signature detection)
   ■ Single and multiple mark recognition
   ■ Set threshold for marks
   ■ Perform OMR at 0, 90, 180, and 270 degree orientations

   ■ Specify fields as grids (rows by columns) or single bubbles
   ■ Programmatic specification of bubble shapes
   ■ Recognize checked boxes
   ■ Unlimited number of fields
   ■ Set recognition parameters for each field
   ■ View confidence values for each OMR field

　

   Form Registration

   ■ Align a filled form to its template to within two pixels, based on image content
   ■ Automatically determine anchor points on the master template form
   ■ Adjust alignment within a drop out zone to compensate for form variations

   ■ Can also use anchor marks for registration
   ■ Can apply aligned image adjustments to the original image  
   ■ Register forms even when they exhibit:
     - Skew up to 20 degrees
     - Scale from 90 to 110%
     - Resolutions from 50% 150% of the template
     - Rotation (at 90, 180, and 270 degrees)



   Form Drop Out

   ■ Remove template image at sub-second speeds
   ■ Confidence values highlight problem images
   ■ Precisely remove lines, broken lines, shading, noise, guide text
   ■ Automatically repair characters that intersect with removed lines or guide text

   ■ Adjust for distortion caused by printing, copying or scanning
   ■ Apply "character smoothing" for increased OCR accuracy
   ■ Selective drop out in specified fields
   ■ Create image clips by cropping from source image



   Image and Data Transfer

   ■ FormDirector component provides communication between FormFix, SmartZone, and ScanFix components
   ■ Organizes and delivers descriptions and control parameters for processing forms
   ■ Handles over 10,000 unique form templates

   ■ For reading, revising and writing form templates and sets
   ■ For bitonal, grayscale and color files
   ■ Unicode character support
   ■ Customer-defined field types, and custom data attached to fields, forms, and form sets



   Image Load, Save, and Manipulation

   ■ FormFix Professional includes ImagXpress Professional (full product description) for image viewing, compression, conversion, thumbnail images, image processing and editing, TWAIN scanning, annotation, and printing
   ■ FormFix Standard includes ImagXpress Standard (full product description) for basic image conversion, image processing, and TWAIN scanning