FormSuite packages Pegasus Imaging’s forms processing components into one convenient download and one discounted purchase. All forms processing components are designed to communicate with one another using memory-to-memory data transfers. A FormSuite purchase includes FormFix Professional v3, SmartZone Professional v1, ScanFix Xpress Bitonal v5, ImagXpress Document v8, and the FormAssist demonstration application including source code in C# for .NET developers.

The included FormAssist application facilitates evaluation of FormSuite technologies. The application and C# source code are free of charge. FormAssist demonstrates form identification and form dropout (FormFix), zonal OCR (SmartZone), OMR (FormFix), image display (ImagXpress), and image cleanup (ScanFix Xpress). Users can import scanned images of master forms, define OCR and OMR recognition regions on each template, assemble sets of form templates, then process images of filled forms to confirm template setup and observe OCR and OMR results. By tuning the various parameters at each stage of processing, accuracy and performance can be measured on users’ own forms, prior to application development.

The .NET FormSuite download provides software developers with FormAssist source code to use as a foundation for developing production form template setup and forms processing applications. The source code illustrates best practice for integration of Pegasus components and provides an example workflow. The modular construction of the source code facilitates rapid development of form setup and forms processing solutions.

Review the descriptions of the included FormSuite products below. These products are also available for purchase separately. FormFix® v3 - Forms Processing and OMR Toolkit

FormFix delivers both .NET controls 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 superior form recognition and form registration will assist in improving ICR, OCR, and OMR accuracy. It easily interfaces with Pegasus recognition engines and with any recognition engine supporting memory-to-memory data transfers.

SmartZone™ - Zonal OCR Toolkit

The SmartZone OCR toolkit offers developers the ability to perform zonal OCR (machine print character recognition) commonly used in forms processing applications. This .NET control and ActiveX COM component internally utilizes two separate recognition techniques to co-verify results and improve accuracy.

ScanFix® Xpress v5.1 - Bitonal Image Enhancement Toolkit

ScanFix® Xpress is delivered as a .NET and ActiveX COM software development toolkit, offering powerful bitonal document image enhancement technology. Create smaller file sizes and cleaner images, ultimately resulting in higher OCR rates. Clean up images using deskew, noise removal, character smoothing, dot shading removal, hole punch removal, line removal, text repair, auto inverse text correction, auto negate, auto binarization, auto border crop, image registration, blank page detection, and rotate.

ImagXpress™ Document v8 - The Comprehensive Document Imaging Toolkit

ImagXpress Document is ideal for powerful document imaging and forms processing application development. As a .NET and COM toolkit, it delivers single and multi-page TIFF support, embedded-image PDF support, TIFF tag handling, EXIF tag handling, file conversion, and support for 1 to 24-bit images with transparency. Build applications displaying documents and thumbnail images with fine details enhanced. ImagXpress Document provides sophisticated TWAIN scanning support, image editing and clean up (including image binarization, thresholding, anti-aliasing, deskew, despeckle, line removal, hole punch removal, blank page detection, scale to gray, save as grayscale, crop, rotate, scale, zoom), annotation/redaction capabilities, and advanced printing capabilities beyond Internet Explorer.