Manager

The Manager module, designed to be user-friendly, employs a visual schematic icon diagram to smoothly navigate users and their documents through the system. The MS Windows design includes: job control and monitoring, workflow status, and statistics reporting all on the screen. Real time notification of errors and problems saves a lot of time. Users can also view and access document image files, templates, recognition results, and database tables within workflow.

Design

In order for a form to be processed, a template must be created that tells the system about the form's attributes, data location, and data types. The Design module provides a wizard to guide users through the setup of templates. It also automatically performs form identification, form registration, auto deskew, rotate, and inversion so that correct and clean data images are extracted for recognition. After the form template is finished, its instructions are stored in an HTML text file. This file can be accessed by other components of the system. 

FreeStyle? Recognition Engine

FreeStyle employs CerebralNet, an advanced recognition technology. This recognition engine is the result of years of research by CereSoft engineers. It has robust character recognition capabilities including the ability to read and recognize completely freestyle handwriting. The document may contain individual letters, words, sentences, and paragraphs. CerebralNet technology integrates, in real time, image, context and linguistic validation rules to ensure the highest degree of accuracy.


The FreeStyle recognition engine recognizes both handwritten and machine-printed words simultaneously and automatically. It also recognizes OMR, barcodes, logos, and form identities. 
In addition to the built-in validation rules, such as lexical and geometrical context to enhance accuracy, FormAgent uses a real-time higher level context known as ¡°data objects¡± to assist with the recognition process. As an example, FormAgent cross-checks the street, city, state, and zip code of an address from the beginning of, rather than after, the recognition process. In this way, the system dramatically cuts down on mistakes. An otherwise unreadable address can be correctly read in most cases. Other data objects include dates, phone numbers, and email addresses. FreeStyle also uses a large dictionary to limit candidates to recognized words. The Trueword module is built into our recognition engine and designed to be utilized at the start rather than as a post-processing tool.

Recognition results are stored in an HTML text file. This file contains the multiple choices of each character and word, their confidences, geometric locations, etc. This information can be easily accessed by FormAgent's other components and modules.

Verify
FormAgent will invoke a carefully designed editor to correct any remaining recognition errors. The editor has two editing modes. In the Field Mode, individual fields will be presented to users one at a time for manual correction. But if field alone cannot resolve the ambiguity of a word, Page Mode can be accessed by double-clicking the field image. In Page Mode, the editing field and the original image in the page are highlighted together for easy identification. Alternative choices for each character and field are displayed at all times along with the field you are editing. 

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Export 
FormAgent has the ability to export the extracted data in either ASCII text format or any ODBC compliant database format. The Export Manager allows you to export data to multiple databases in multiple formats. It also allows you to export data to spreadsheets, EDI (electronic data interchange), or web-form format. 

Other Features 
FormAgent is completely scalable. It can distribute work to many PC stations for scanning, recognition, verification and data export. It is also internet enabled so that remote processing is possible over private or public networks. 

It also has an extremely flexible user interface that makes adding or modifying existing jobs easy. It supports all major SCSI, ISIS, and Twain compatible scanners. 

DLL, COM, DCOM and ActiveX basedAgents allow FormAgent to be easily integrated so that it can be used not only as an out-of-the-box product but also as a data entry component of a business information processing system. 

System Requirements 

IBM Compatible Pentium or higher  

64 Mb of RAM and 200 MB of hard disk space 

MS Windows 2000, XP Professional, or Vista