Forms Processing
 

With Forms Recognition customers will possess a feature that incorporates a variety of forms processing and character recognition support into comprehensive forms processing and data entry systems. This tool allows the recognizing and editing of forms, including targets, fields and base image. Fields may be added to or deleted from the loaded form, or existing fields may be modified. Many types of solutions incorporating Forms recognition will enable pre-processing, reading and post processing options, which optimize overall recognition, speed and accuracy.

Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) technology can be made available, and can be tailored to meet specific application requirements. These functions can be utilized to develop a document processing application from the ground up or can be easily integrated into an existing document processing system.  Forms recognition (or forms processing) technology is specifically designed to extract data from paper or facsimile questionnaires, applications etc.

The main types of recognition are:

  • OCR (Optical Character Recognition) - for the interpretation to computer-readable output of machine printed (laser, dot matrix) alpha numeric characters.

  • ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition) - for the interpretation to computer-readable output of hand printed alpha numeric characters.

  • OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) - for the interpretation of whether a response has been entered based on what amount of the interior area of a circle or check box was filled in.

  • Barcode recognition - for the interpretation of horizontally or vertically printed or affixed bar codes.

With these technologies companies can reduce their manual data entry processes in many areas of business, such as

  • Survey research,

  • Tax return processing,

  • Health insurance claims capture.

  • Invoice Processing

  • POD/Docket processing

  • Signature recognition

  • Barcode recognition

  • Enrolment Processing