SmartZone ICR / OCR Software Development Toolkit

The SmartZone ICR / OCR software development toolkit (SDK) provides zonal ICR (hand-printed, intelligent character recognition) and zonal OCR (machine-printed, optical character recognition) technology for use within either .NET or ActiveX COM development environments. Commonly used in forms processing applications, this toolkit internally employs multiple independent recognition techniques to verify results and improve accuracy. ScanFix Xpress Lite and ImagXpress Standard are included in the SDK for image cleanup, image handling, and TWAIN scanning.

Key Features:

• Programming environments: Win32 visual development environments including Visual Studio 2008


• Sample code included for: VB.NET, C#, VB, Delphi, VC++, HTML


• Object-oriented API for .NET users


• Deploys within .NET as a managed control and is fully compliant with .NET 1.0 and above


• Can be used in any development environment that hosts ActiveX COM controls


• Supports user-specified debug logging levels


• Client/server Web development capabilities


• Two processing speeds available (Standard and Professional editions)


• Free full-featured trial version available for immediate download

Recognition Capabilities:

• Recognize hand-printed American and European English characters


• Return confidence values for each individual character


• Specify rejection characters and confidence levels


• Supports English characters only

Additional Features:

• Includes ImagXpress Standard for basic image conversion and processing


• Supports image data transfer with other components


• SmartZone Professional and Standard editions include ScanFix Xpress Lite for bitonal image cleanup technology

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