ABBYY FlexiCapture Studio 1.5

Key Features

Interface

Comfortable tree-view visualization environment for FlexiLayout creation, editing and testing.
Moving elements by using drag&drop.
Highlighting blocks and elements in different colours depending on their type and status (found/not found).
Blocks and elements can be shown/hidden for the sake of convenience.
Program windows can be customized and resized for the optimal screen layout.

Technologies

Unique ABBYY FlexiCapture technology to describe layouts of semi-structured documents.
ABBYY's award-winning recognition and document analysis technologies used as a background for layout description.

Image Input

Images in the following formats can be added to a batch: PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PCX, DCX, PNG, and BMP.

Pre-Recognition

Detecting such objects as text, words, lines, separators, barcodes, and pictures.
OCR:
- 172 natural languages with Latin, Cyrillic or Greek alphabets;
multi-language recognition.
optical barcode recognition:
- 1D (Code 39, Check Code 39, Interleaved 25, Check Interleaved 25, EAN 8, EAN 13, Code 128, IATA 25);
- 2D (PDF 417).
full and fast pre-recognition modes
viewing recognized image by types

FlexiLayout Objects

There are two types of FlexiLayouts objects: blocks which contain required data, and elements, objects which help to search for the fields.

Types of blocks: text, tables, barcodes, checkmarks, pictures.
Types of elements:
- simple elements (static text, separator, white gap, barcode, character string, text fragment, object collection, table, date, phone, currency);
- compound elements, i.e. simple elements joined by AND.

FlexiLayout Creation

FlexiLayout is created by setting elements properties in comfortable dialogs.
Various element properties can be specified depending on the type of element:
- text to be searched with possible alternatives and numbers of errors;
- columns, rows, header and footer properties for tables;
- search constraints with absolute search area coordinates and relative position over other elements;
- advanced settings by writing code in FlexiCapture language with automated checking its syntax of and displaying error messages.
Settings advanced one-to-many relations between elements.
Building FlexiLayout at any time of its creation for checking it for errors.

Testing and Tuning FlexiLayout

On-the-fly testing and adjusting of FlexiLayout by using a batch of sample images.
Formulating a set of hypotheses, i.e. assumptions that the detected objects correspond to the elements:
- hypotheses are created for the whole set of elements but the not just a single element;
- if several hypotheses are formulated they are arranged in tree-like structure and ranked by their quality;
- the best hypothesis are selected and marked;
- relation between FlexiLayout element and possible hypothesis is visualized;
- the concept of null hypothesis allows user to continue creation of hypothesis tree in the case some optional elements cannot be found;
- hypotheses are grouped in clusters and displayed depending on the types of elements and search results (found/not found).
Comfortable testing of FlexiLayout matching by using reference layout that can be created:
- by drawing elements manually;
- by correcting the results of matching.

Exporting FlexiLayouts

Export of build FlexiLayout as *.afl file, which can be used in FormReader or FineReader Engine for processing semi-structured documents.

Licensing

FlexiCapture Studio comes as optional module to ABBYY FormReader family as well as ABBYY FineReader Engine and requires special license that enables both creation and processing of FlexiLayouts.
Data capture application (FormReader or FineReader Engine based) that uses FlexiLayouts requires special license that enables processing of FlexiLayouts.

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