Technical FAQs for "FormSuite"

In FormSuite for Invoices, what are the accepted characters for the Currency and CurrencyPlus field data types?

Note: FSI assumes that currency values are United States values. It normalizes fields that are marked as Currency (not CurrencyPlus), any punctuation (except negative and decimal).

The Currency and CurrencyPlus formats are used in the FSI recognition to help determine currency values on the page.

The Currency value is of the form

dd¢

[$|€|£|¥]ddd[{separator}ddd][{decimal}dd][-|=][ €]

The CurrencyPlus value is of the form

dd¢

[$|€|£|¥|E|EUR]ddd[{separator}ddd][{decimal}dd][-|=][ €| E|EUR|DKK|DKR|NOK|NKR|SEK|SK|GBP|KR|USD]

Where separator “,” and decimal “.” Or separator “.” and decimal “,”

Is the main FormSuite for Invoices (FSI) process multithreaded? If so, would more cores or more CPU’s increase the performance?

Internally, we do multi-threading where we can at the beginning of the process. Improving your hardware will help if you are doing multiple pages at once, otherwise it will not. FormSuite for Invoices is thread-safe as long as each thread owns the FSI object being used. 

Please see: https://help.accusoft.com/FSInvoices/v1.0/webframe.html#Operating%20Requirements.html

What quality should my images be for processing form data and recognition using FormSuite?

In all cases, you want to have your images as clear and as clean as possible. For any particular procedure, please consider the following:

OCR and ICR: Capture images in at least 300 DPI resolution. Ideally, working in black and white allows the objects of interest on your image to be better defined and recognized. Free the image form all noise as much as possible. As if a human were reading it, you want the text objects on the image to be as legible as possible. For ICR, ensure that the characters are printed (no cursive text, etc).

Barcode recognition: As with OCR and ICR, capture images in at least 300 DPI and working with black and white content can provide excellent results. Ensure that the bars in the barcodes are clearly defined on the image and are not mal-formed (for example, the barcodes should have the proper start and stop sequence, etc). Clear as much noise from the image as possible.

Forms matching and registration: As with the prior 2 items above, capture your documents in at least 300 DPI. Ensure that your resolution is consistent between your form templates and incoming batch images. Form templates should only contain data that is common to every image that is being processed (i.e. Form fields, the text that appears on the blank form itself, etc). The template should not have filled-in field information as this will affect the forms matching process.