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Jaime Saeger Marketing Director +1 (813) 875-7575 x320 marketing@jpg.com |
Pegasus Imaging Corporation 4001 N. Riverside Drive Tampa, FL 33603 USA www.pegasusimaging.com |
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SMARTSCAN XPRESS ICR/OCR/OMR VERSION 4 ANNOUNCED BY PEGASUS IMAGING |
| TAMPA, FL, June 3, 2004 - Pegasus Imaging Corporation, the leader in digital imaging technology, launches the latest SmartScan Xpress ICR/OCR/OMR development toolkit, Version 4. Designed for use in Win32 Visual development environments, SmartScan Xpress ICR/OCR/OMR is a .NET control, COM component, and VCL that offers software developers the ability to recognize characters and marks, define forms, recognize forms, and perform image clean up. Version 4 includes a greatly enhanced recognition engine and numerous features designed to facilitate form processing application development.Pegasus Imaging'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.
Pegasus Imaging's team of scientists and engineers has greatly enhanced the character and mark recognition engine included within this latest version. 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. 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.
"Our imaging engineers are very excited about the user interface improvements we've added to our OMR processing, and the algorithm enhancements we've made to support new character sets for OCR processing," says Janet Jordan, project manager at Pegasus Imaging. "Our beta customers have been delighted with the Forms Editor they can use to generate processing instructions. They've reported this greatly expedites the development process." Visit the Pegasus Imaging website at www.pegasusimaging.com/smartscanicr.htm for a complete SmartScan Xpress ICR/OCR/OMR v4 product description. E-mail sales@jpg.com for more information. |
| About Pegasus Imaging |
| Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Pegasus Imaging Corporation delivers digital imaging software development components, image compression and image editing technologies. The company exceeds speed and quality requirements for document imaging, forms processing, medical imaging, color/photo imaging, video applications and more. Technology is delivered as Microsoft .NET controls, COM controls, VCLs, DLLs and applications. Multiple platforms are supported, including Windows, Linux, Solaris, IBM AIX and Mac. Visit www.pegasusimaging.com for more information. |
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