Accusoft Pegasus’s scientists have written a new form recognition algorithm to support application requirements identifying form types, and to tailor processing instructions for each form type processed. This algorithm corrects image warping or resizing introduced through scanning and copying, and automatically reorients images scanned at 90, 180, and 270 degrees from a user provided form template. Form drop out and stroke restoration can be requested as well. Form registration is another new feature, added to remove image warping or resizing, and to position scanned forms correctly for zonal form processing.

Greatly enhanced preprocessing and image clean up actions including improved line removal, border removal, and deskew, can be applied to the entire form or to specified regions of interest as programmatically defined. Form processing instructions can easily be defined using the brand new, included Forms Editor application designed to generate form processing instructions. The Forms Editor includes its Microsoft .NET source code, allowing developers to easily tailor or augment the application for specialized requirements.

Advanced form clean up and character segmentation technology result in improved OCR, MICR, and ICR recognition, and more accurate translation of images into character or mark representations. In addition to machine-print uppercase/lowercase alphabetic and numeric, Version 4 recognizes accented characters, many currency symbols, digits, arithmetic symbols, expanded punctuation characters, and more. Additional language support provided for Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, and German. OMR is also significantly improved in Version 4, including specification of OMR fields as grids (rows and columns), or as single bubbles. MICR is improved to recognize and properly report MICR symbols as well as returning MICR digits.

Improved documentation and sample code is included in the new product install to assist in understanding the product. The Forms Editor source code is shipped with the product, providing a full featured working sample of how to use the toolkit. Updated FAQ’s provide easily accessible answers to common support questions.