ABBYY FlexiCapture Engine 8.0

The Engine enables you to easily add functionality required from today’s document management solutions, e.g.:

• Automated data extraction from various types of fixed documents like questionnaires or insurance forms, which often come in large numbers;
• Handling semi-structured forms in which the location of key data fields (such as date, invoice number, or text block) varies across documents, providing fast and precise data extraction;
• Document indexing and classification options allow you to automate document storage and archiving routines. This makes digital documents, even unstructured ones, easily accessible and improves the entire document workflow.

ABBYY’s reputation and high profile in the industry will help in promoting your solutions.

ABBYY's form processing and data capture end-user products are used by many government agencies and commercial organizations all over the world, including: Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club e.V. (Germany), Connecticut Braille Association (USA), UMW Toyota (Malaysia), Cargill Foods (USA),   Indian Educational Institutions (India), Finansbank (Turkey), Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate (Lithuania), Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation (Russia), Trendset (USA), Ministry of Rural Development of Malaysia (Malaysia), Prodco TV (UK) and many more.

In today’s world, it is very important to have not only a local version of a product but to be ready to make localized international solutions. The Engine has a unique OCR/ICR language coverage and other features you may need:

FlexiCapture Engine is able to recognize more than 180 languages in OCR (including the Latin, Greek, Armenian, Cyrillic, and Thai alphabets) and more than 110 languages in ICR. The ABBYY team is constantly working to increase the list of available languages, both with and without dictionary support.

Applications built on the Engine, offer automatic processing of incoming documents, simplifying input, recognition, verification, and export into just one action performed on a bundle of records. The whole process can be configured for operating in standalone mode for maximum stability and smoothness.

Applications powered by ABBYY FlexiCapture Engine cut down expenses on labor force and related risks. They help you to save hours of employees’ work on inputting and re-inputting data if they were incorrectly recognized. All this is possible due to:

• the high quality of OCR and ICR that reduces the amount of data correction work;
• rule-based automated verification process;
• extremely effective error-proof group verification.

ABBYY is constantly developing existent and searching for new technologies that respond to every day challenges faced by end-users. FlexiCapture 8 is offers multiple examples of radical improvements:

• New and emerging approach handling a document not as just a bundle of pages but as a single entity with uniform processing options for every page;
• Export of images along with extracted data for classifying and indexing purposes;
• Support for recurrent items in documents, including complex tables, to speed up processing of groups of identical fields.

ABBYY FlexiCapture Engine 8.0 delivers a full-range of state-of-the-art technologies for data capture and archiving scenarios. This allows developers to stick to one SDK supplier for different tasks, having a single approach to developing, maintenance, and training for the SDK.

ABBYY provides not only traditional data capture utilities but also instruments for document conversion. These tasks are highly interconnected and the customer benefits from having only one supplier for all of them.

FlexiCapture Engine 8.0 has a clear and easy-to-use API. Nevertheless, to shorten the learning curve the distribution package contains:

• Training courses and certification questions on ABBYY FlexiCapture technology
• Professional Services to help you quick-start your development
• Single and integral API;
• Full and clear developer’s Help.

The Engine API conforms to the COM standard and can be easily used in C/C++, Visual Basic, .Net, Delphi, or any other development tools supporting COM components.
With minimum effort, the Engine can be adopted for use in scripting languages such as VBS, JS, and Perl.

The distribution package contains samples for C/C++, VB 6, VB.Net, C#, and Delphi programming languages.

ABBYY is an international company with a wide geography of local offices ready to provide you with technical support:

• At the time which is most convenient to you, as we are able to respond during your office hours;
• In many cases in a language you are familiar with;
• With a minimum response time, since we provide technologies we are developing ourselves.