SmartZone OCR/ICR
Add outstanding character recognition for both typed and hand-printed information, and eliminate manual data entry.
Improve character recognition with our powerful ICR and OCR SDK.
Just pass it an image clip, and SmartZone returns the characters. It’s ideal for capturing data from form fields whether they were typed (OCR) or hand-printed (ICR). You can enhance accuracy with data matching/lookup, regular expressions, and custom character sets for character recognition. Confidence values let you control when operators should review results and alternate characters help operators quickly pick correct entries.
OCR Xpress Features
Just pass it an image clip, and SmartZone returns the characters. It’s ideal for capturing data from form fields whether they were typed (OCR) or hand-printed (ICR). You can enhance accuracy with data matching/lookup, regular expressions, and custom character sets for character recognition. Confidence values let you control when operators should review results and alternate characters help operators quickly pick correct entries.
Languages for OCR and ICR
The software recognizes several languages including English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish (ActiveX ICR is English-only). It can simultaneously recognize characters from all supported languages.
Recognition
- Pre-defined character sets include uppercase, lowercase, mixed case alphabetic, digits, currency, and punctuation.
- Can be limited to any customer-defined subset of the full character sets.
- Return confidence values for each individual character, line, and the complete result.
- Return alternate results for each character with confidence values.
- Choose rejection character provided when character cannot be identified.
- Set confidence level below which the rejection character is returned.
- Can optimize by controlling recognition segmentation parameters.
- Users can define an expected character pattern for a field and apply a different regular expression to each field to dramatically improve accuracy.
Standard Field Types
- Pre-defined field types include: dates, times, email, U.S phone, SSN, URL, currency. Defined fields experience improved accuracy.
- They can be augmented with regular expressions and a data validation list can be used to automatically verify part numbers, customer IDs, etc.
Image Load, Save, and Manipulate
SmartZone Professional and Standard include ImagXpress Standard for basic image conversion, image processing, and TWAIN scanning.
MICR Recognition (MICR)*
- Recognizes E-13B font within configurable zones.
- Returns confidence values for each character, field, and line.
- Parses MICR text into fields defined by ASC X9, Inc.**
*MICR support is available as an add-on.
**See standards document ANSI X9.100-160-1-2004.
SmartZone Development Environments
.NET
- 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7, 8.1, 10; Windows Server 2008 (and R2), 2012 (and R2), and 2016
- Visual Studio 2010, 2015, and 2017
- Microsoft .NET Framework 2.x, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0
Aleksey Kondratov joined Accusoft in 2008 as a QA team leader. He worked on many Accusoft products including BarcodeXpress, forms processing applications, and other SDKs. Now Aleksey is a software engineer for PrizmDoc Suite. He likes working on new programming technologies like ML and Computer Vision. In his spare time, Aleksey enjoys landscape design and spends free time in his garden where he grows roses and other flowers. In addition, he likes to spend time with his children and travel in his car.
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Tech Specs for SmartZone
Discover how you can include intelligent character recognition (ICR) and optical character recognition (OCR) into your application with ease.
Development Environments
.NET
- 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7, 8.1, 10; Windows Server 2008 (and R2), 2012 (and R2), and 2016
- Visual Studio 2010, 2015, and 2017
- Microsoft .NET Framework 2.x, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0
Sample Code
- Samples for VB.NET and C#
Included Components
SmartZone Standard
- SmartZone OCR or ICR Standard
- ImagXpress Standard
- ThumbnailXpress
- TwainPRO
SmartZone Professional
- SmartZone OCR or ICR Professional
- ImagXpress Standard
- ThumbnailXpress
- TwainPRO
SmartZone Help Files
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SmartZone Pricing
Pricing for SmartZone varies based on server runtime, desktop runtime, and other variables. Contact sales for help choosing the right options for your project.
Toolkit
Standard Runtime
Professional Runtime
All customers receive free Upgrade Support for 90 days after initial purchase, which includes email support and all product upgrades. Customers wanting longer-term support may choose to extend Upgrade Support, or to move up to Priority or Expedited support.
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