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Dynamic forms processing has emerged to recognize data
Author: jerominejuliana

Forms Processing applications let you recognize forms filled in by hand in order to automate data entry tasks. Handprint recognition has come a long way in the past few years. Cost and complexity have gone down while accuracy gets increasingly higher. This has finally made this technology available to small and mid-sized businesses.

Dynamic forms processing has also emerged to recognize data on documents like invoices where the data appears in a different location on every page. This lets you automate virtually any data entry task except script handwriting.
Compare ICR Forms Processing features side-by-side

ScanStore specializes in low-cost, easy-to-use document scanning and ICR Forms Processing for SMBs and corporate departments. Our web-based approach to imaging sales and support lowers costs and makes technology accessible to companies worldwide. While most of the industry is still focused on high-volume applications, ScanStore has found solutions from ABBYY and IRIS that have the simplicity and price to work for the vast majority of companies not in the Fortune 500.

ICR Forms Processing for Small Business & Departments
ABBYY FlexiCapture for Fixed Forms is affordable, fast, accurate and easy to configure. It is much more powerful and flexible than the “vaporware” handprint recognition applications out there, and much easier and affordable than other desktop versions of enterprise forms processing applications.

FlexiCapture 8 for Fixed Forms

ABBYY ICR Forms ProcessingFlexiCapture 8 Professional enables recognition of variable documents like invoices or checks, where the information you are recognizing can appear in a different location on each page.

FlexiCapture 8 Professional

IRISCapture for Forms is a good solution for less demanding handprint recognition applications that do not require scripted validation rules. It is easier to setup and use than FlexiCapture, but is not as accurate or feature-rich.

IRIS ICR Forms ProcessingIRISCapture for Forms

IRISCapture for Invoices automates the very technical task of setting up recognition templates for invoice processing. It is designed to detect elements like name, date, invoice number and total and extract the data automatically.

IRISCapture for Invoices

ICR Forms Processing for Service Bureaus & Scanning Departments
ABBYY FormReader also has an Enterprise version for service bureaus and corporate scanning departments that have to process 30,000 forms per month or more (assuming a single full-time operator can process just over 1,000 pages per day). Enterprise forms processing means batch jobs are coordinated by a central server, with multiple scanners, recognition stations, verification operators and administration all on separate workstations.

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At the risk of offending all those who love to talk for hours about cores, caches and clock speeds, I have to say that I personally find discussions about the innards of silicon chips and how they are wired together intensely boring. In fact, I’ve probably already used all the wrong words and phrases, even in that first sentence, which is no doubt going to annoy some people further.

So, when Tony, Martin and I were invited to a dinner to meet with some of AMD’s European executives, I was understandably in two minds about attending, especially as I am also not really into all this wining and dining stuff as some other analyst are.

I went along, though, and I’m glad I did. Sure, I found myself sucked into the odd eye glazing conversation that I only partially understood, but something that came across clearly was that AMD is investing quite a bit in ‘reaching through’ relationships with its direct customers (largely the OEMs) to the ultimate customers – Enterprises, SMBs and consumers.

Of course there is nothing new or unique in this, in fact I ran a team at Nortel Networks back in the early 00’s which did exactly the same thing (in that case, reaching through the mobile operators to understand how 3G related to their subscribers). The basic idea is that you can gain insights and tune your R&D based on direct end user/buyer input that would not be possible if you worked second hand through your customer as an intermediary. To do this well, however, you really need people who understand that end user environment and the trends that are taking place within it, and that’s not necessarily the same people that deal with your core product design from an internal perspective.

Anyway, this end-user oriented view of the world shifted discussions to more familiar territory for me during the dinner, and I enjoyed hearing people like Giuseppe Amato, who goes under the title “Director, Value Proposition Team”, explaining how the whole process works in relation to data centre evolution, high performance computing and mobile working. It changed my perception of AMD quite a bit from simply “the alternative to Intel” to that of an independent player that is committed to driving industry development in its own way.

While I am not qualified to comment on the relative merits of AMD technology versus the competition, nor its ability to execute in the cut throat world of OEM deals and supply chains, I now have a much better appreciation of why what AMD does actually matters. It is not just about price/performance or performance per watt of energy consumed, it is about shifting thresholds to make things economically or practically possible in the mainstream market that previously were not. That’s why the “what if you could….?” conversations with end customers as suppliers like AMD reach through to them are so important. And also why, for the first time in my life, I actually had some genuinely interesting conversations about silicon that were directly relevant to the world in which I live.