LEADTOOLS Forms Recognition Module

LEAD Releases Major Update to LEADTOOLS v16.5 SDKs
Many new features have been added to LEADTOOLS

OCR and Forms Recognition

• Improved OCR Advantage recognition algorithm to improve accuracy.
• New MICR support in OCR Advantage engine.
• New XML output from OCR.
• New Forms Recognition Only demo.
• Improved Forms Recognition documentation including new topics, best practices and examples.
• New Rake Remove Bitmap function to remove data rakes from form images.

PACS & Medical Imaging

• New PACS Workstation Framework. The LEADTOOLS PACS Workstation Framework is a set of .NET PACS components to build a complete PACS Workstation system. To speed up development, a medical workstation viewer application with source code is included.
• Create, load and save all IOD classes defined in the 2008 base standard and final 2008 DICOM text supplements.
• New Auto Segment Bitmap function. Segments objects in CT/MRI images by shrinking a defined rectangular region onto the objects.
• New Tissue Equalize Bitmap function. Equalizes between hard and soft tissue in x-ray images resulting in an enhanced image.
• New DICOM HD MPEG-2 support.
• New support for 16 bit grayscale images in WPF.
• New Scroll event in the Medical Image Viewer control.
• New Point to Client method in the Medical Viewer Cell class.
• New DICOMDIR dialog.

PDF Imaging

• New searchable and editable PDF save features including encryption, fast web viewing, size optimization, document author properties, and PDF profiles.
• New PDF Dynamic Resolution demo.

Document Imaging

• New Document Writers for XPS and DOCX.
• New Empty Pages support for Document Writers.
• New Vertical Text support for Document Writers.
• New support for DPI in Document Writers.
• Improved output for text flow formats such as TXT and DOC.
• New support to rasterize Excel XLS files.
• New C DLL snap to grid functionality for annotations.
• Improved Auto Zone function algorithm.
• New Get Background Color function.
• New Sigma Filter Bitmap function to smooth images while maintaining sharp edges.
• New Object Counter function that counts the number of binary objects in an image.

Barcode

• New .NET assembiles for Barcode.
• Improved QR Code error correction algorithm.

Web Imaging

• New functionality to set text in the LEADTOOLS Web Thumbnail Viewer.
• New functionality to clear the Web Image Viewer.
• New Web Forms demo to call LEADTOOLS OCR WCF web service.
• Updated Silverlight Image controls to Silverlight 3.0.

General Imaging

• Added region of interest compression level support to JPEG 2000.
• New Fast Magic Wand region selection function.
• New rubberband multi-selection feature in LEADTOOLS WPF Image List control.
• New feature to load images faster.

Key Features of LEADTOOLS Forms Recognition

Code Support

• High level classes enable adding form recognition features with very little code
• Includes full source code for an end-user Forms Recognition and Processing application, plus hundreds of lines of sample source code

Build Workflows

• Use in conjunction with other LEADTOOLS Document Imaging functions to build workflows that incorporate scanning,  OCR, ICR (hand-written text), OMR (to extract check marks, check boxes, etc), MICR, redaction and annotations with recognition and processing
• Automatic, manual (text-analytic), trained, and multi-level recognition
• Flexible automatic recognition engine can be customized to use Barcode, OCR, line detection, and special object detection (such as logos, text blocks, and shapes)
• Recognizes any of 150+ input file formats, including different bits-per-pixel, dpi, scales, skew angles, and noise

Forms, Region, and Data Support

• Define multi-page forms for recognition and processing
• Store any number of pre-defined master forms for recognition
• Recognize forms at both form and page level, to compare an image to any form page or compare a complete multi-page form to any predefined master form
• Load and save form identification information as XML for storage in a database
• Recognize any number of regions or objects on a page
• Define inclusion and exclusion regions to be used to classify forms
• Supports a variety of data fields:
  • Text fields support both printed and hand-written text
  • Supports regular expressions to find / validate text in a specified format
  • Image fields to extract signatures, personal pictures, logos, and fingerprints
  • Barcode fields support all barcode 1D (Linear) and 2D types, such as PDF417, DataMatrix, QR, EAN, UPC, Databar, and 4-state

Results Enhancement

• Auto-registration (deskew) and clean-up to improve recognition results
• Manual feature weighting for improved recognition performance
• Generates comprehensive results and confidence level reports to assess performance