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FormFix Professional by Accusoft (formerly Pegasus Imaging Corp.)

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Add identification, form registration, OMR technology to your application. FormFix delivers both .NET and ActiveX COM components offering bitonal template-based form identification, form registration, form drop out, and OMR technology to developers of forms processing applications. Highly flexible and optimized for speed, FormFix's form recognition and form registration improve ICR, OCR, and OMR accuracy. It easily interfaces with Pegasus recognition engines, and with any recognition engine supporting memory-to-memory data transfers. ImagXpress and ScanFix Xpress are included with FormFix for image handling, advanced image cleanup, and TWAIN scanning. Professional Edition has full speed of processing forms (Standard Edition is delayed at approximately 5 seconds per page).

Form Setup

API support for setting up fields, form templates, and sets of form templates

Flexible architecture for defining custom operations at any stage of processing

Define OMR, text, image, or custom fields on each form

Extensive support for form processing operations

Form Identification

Match forms against previously defined unfilled templates and return confidence values

Provide automatic identification without the need for registration marks, ID marks, or anchor marks

Match forms that are rotated 90, 180, or 270 degrees from template image

Match forms that have been scaled from 90% to 110% of the template size

Match forms scanned with resolution of 50% to 150% of the template resolution

Match forms that are skewed up to 20 degrees by pre-processing with the included ScanFix

Identify thousands of different forms

Limit a recognition operation to a subset of the available templates

Set the level of effort expended in completing form matching

Return Identification Certainty indicating confidence of form matching

Accept a Minimum Certainty level for acceptance as a matched form

Return up to 100 alternative form matches of lower certainty

Quickly identify forms, even when using very large sets of template forms

Form Registration

Automatically align a filled form to its master template based on image contents, to within one or two pixels of the blank template without requiring registration marks

Analyze the master template form content and determine anchor points automatically

Adjust alignment within a drop out zone to compensate for small differences between forms

Support an alternate registration process using anchor marks in each corner

Register forms even when the forms exhibit these characteristics:

Skew (up to 20 degrees)

Smaller or larger image size than the template (up to 10%)

Forms scanned at different resolutions (up to 50% greater and lesser) than the template resolution

Rotation (at 90, 180, and 270 degrees from the template)

Form Drop Out

Remove template forms at sub-second speeds

Provide confidence values to highlight problem images

Adjust for distortion caused by printing, copying or scanning

Precisely remove lines, broken lines, shading, noise, guide text, and more

Automatically repair text that intersects with lines or guide text defining the form, that was damaged during template removal (fills broken characters)

Apply "character repair" across areas of the image where the form was removed

Apply "character smoothing" to smooth the edges of characters for increased OCR accuracy

Support for form drop out only within specified fields or the entire image

Create new images using pixels cropped from a source image (field clips)

OMR (Optical Mark Recognition and Mark Sense)

Detect the presence or absence of marks or characters (for verification of signature presence for example)

Support programmatic specification for bubble shape

Support OMR recognition at 0, 90, 180, and 270 degree orientation

Specify fields as grids (rows by columns) or single bubbles

Support single and multiple mark recognition

Recognize check-marked check boxes

Set custom recognition parameters on a per-field basis

Allow an unlimited number of fields

Support programmatic specification for threshold for positive marks

Return confidence values to check accuracy of OMR

Form Overlay

Enables the use of dropout to access the filled, variable data

Overlay archived "data only" file over form template for display or print

This process dramatically reduces storage requirements

Increase data transmission speed

Image Input, Image Output, and Image Handling

FormFix Professional includes ImagXpress Document for image viewing, compression, conversion, thumbnail image support, document image processing and editing, TWAIN scanning, annotation, printing, and more

FormFix Standard includes ImagXpress Standard for basic image conversion, image processing, and TWAIN scanning

Bitonal Image Cleanup

FormFix Professional includes ScanFix Xpress for advanced bitonal image cleanup technology such as dot shading removal, line removal, character smoothing, inverse text correction, hole punch removal, deskew, despeckle, rotate, mirror, flip and more

FormFix Standard includes ScanFix Xpress Lite for bitonal image cleanup technology such as deskew, despeckle, rotate, mirror, flip and more

Image and Data Transfer Tool

Included with FormFix is the FormDirector component, providing communication among multiple Pegasus Imaging components (including FormFix, SmartZone, and ScanFix Xpress)

Assists in organizing, storing, and retrieving the descriptions and control parameters you will use while processing forms

Supports reading, revising and writing form template set files

Supports reading, revising and writing form template definition files

Handles over 10,000 unique form templates

For bitonal files (grayscale and color will be supported in a future edition)

Supports Unicode characters

Supports customization, including customer-defined field types and private customer data attached to form sets, forms, and fields

Replaces the form definition and form drop out features of SmartScan Xpress ICR/OCR/OMR (form definition files), FormFix (table files), and Prizm Color IP (form definition and form suite files)

Add identification, form registration, OMR technology to your application.

Pricing: FormFix Professional V3.1 1 Developer License, FormFix Professional V3.1 Deployment Licensing(A minimum of 5 client licenses is required for first time purchases) 1 Additional Client Runtime License, price per client (1 to 4) (you must already own at least 5 client Runtime Licenses), FormFix Professional V3.1 Deployment Licensing(A minimum of 5 client licenses is required for first time purchases) 1 Client Runtime License, price per client (5 to 9) (minimum quantity 5), FormFix Professional V3.1 Deployment Licensing(A minimum of 5 client licenses is required for first time purchases) 1 Client Runtime License, price per client (10 to 24) (minimum quantity 10), FormFix Professional V3.1 Deployment Licensing(A minimum of 5 client licenses is required for first time purchases) 1 Client Runtime License, price per client (25 to 49) (minimum quantity 25), FormFix Professional V3.1 Deployment Licensing(Servers are licensed per core, annually. Minimum 2 core per server.) 1 Server (CPU) Deployment License (Minimum quantity 2 per server)

Evals & Downloads: Read the FormFix help file, Read the Pegasus Licensing Information, Download the FormFix V3.1 for .NET evaluation on to your computer - Displays nag screens, Download the FormFix V3.1 for ActiveX evaluation on to your computer - Displays nag screens

Operating System for Deployment: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Component

Component Type: .NET WinForms, ActiveX DLL

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET, Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, Microsoft Visual C# 2005, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual C# .NET, .NET Framework 2.0, .NET Framework 1.1, .NET Framework 1.0

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Part numbers: PC-517540-282835 517540-282835 PC-517540-282836 517540-282836 PC-517540-282837 517540-282837 PC-517540-282838 517540-282838 PC-517540-282839 517540-282839 PC-517540-282841 517540-282841