Working with good quality machine print, OCR provides recognition accuracy of nearly 100 percent (99.9%). The diversity of human writing styles, spacing variations, irregularities of handwriting – all these factors make handwriting recognition a much more challenging task than reading machine printed or even hand printed characters. Therefore, the recognition systems that read cursive handwriting […]
Can You Use ICR for Bad Quality Machine Print Text?
People might think that handwriting is similar to bad machine print and that ICR is a more advanced form of OCR that can process text of worse quality. In reality, those 2 recognizers, OCR and ICR, are designed to process completely different types of text; OCR for machine print and ICR for handwriting. Machine print […]
FormXtra Wins CRN Tech Innovator Award
Monday night, we were honored to join the likes of IBM, Microsoft, and Ruckus and Soonr at the annual CRN Tech Innovator Awards, hosted by The Channel Company at their NexTI event in Las Vegas. Our flagship intelligent document recognition product, was selected as the winner in the printing and imaging category. It was identified as a standout product […]
New FormXtra Features – Summary of Enhancements
Announcing FormXtra 5.4 Today, Parascript announced FormXtra® and FormXtra Capture 5.4. If you’ve been watching the evolution of our FormXtra technology, we are particularly excited about this release. Most significantly, it represents the joining of many discrete and powerful competencies into a unified software solution for document capture. Below is a summary of the changes, and […]
Parascript.com updates – more content, available anywhere
Earlier this month we published significant updates to Parascript.com. This includes both surface level changes and deep structural changes. Both are designed to help you find the right content, quickly, from any device you are on. This site utilizes cookies to help tailor your experience. I’ll explain what that means (and doesn’t mean) in greater […]
Why Check Scanner OCR is Not Enough for Check Recognition
There is often a need to read different data from checks, such as amounts, dates, signatures and so on. It may seem that the most logical approach is to rely on the OCR capability that comes with check scanners. Unfortunately, check scanners OCR offers very basic capabilities and its often not the solution. Reading fields […]
The Next Step in Postal Services: The Digital Post
Today’s world is characterized by globalization, liberalization, deregulation, and technological advances challenges posts’ monopolistic position as the sole providers of postal services. Their only opportunity to withstand increased competition is to raise the bar for performance and efficiency standards of mail sorting and the quality and variety of services offered. Having the advantage of directly […]
Recognition and Remote Deposit Capture – Takeaways from this year’s RDC Summit
This years annual Remote Deposit Capture summit was held in Orlando, Sept 25-27. It is a fascinating niche event that unlike many industry conferences evolves dramatically each year. And for the financial industry, which tends to be slow about technology adoption; watching the evolution of this space is really interesting. Heres a summary of the […]
Video: Intelligent Document Recognition | Benefits and Features
Want to learn more about document capture and only have a couple of minutes? Well, do we have the video for you! Intelligent Document Recognition (IDR) software allows companies to automate data capture and reduce manual data entry. Parascripts FormXtra Capture provides the ability to process any document, with any data, from any source. It […]
How Does Incoming Mail Processing Software Work?
State-of-the-art incoming mail processing software is able to locate the correct destination address block on the image of an envelope, flat-size mail piece, or parcel. The software automatically parses and recognizes the fields within this address block. It is designed to deal with different address block structures and automatically reads the variety of fields and […]
3 Thoughts from Harvey Spencer’s 2013 Capture Conference
Every year in early September, leading document capture analyst Harvey Spencer hosts an annual industry vendor conference at the Glen Cove Mansion in Glen Cove, NY. Here, Harvey provides a synopsis of the document capture market, and IT trends as they relate to capture (think process-oriented applications, information security and governance, etc). Here’s a few […]
Over $1,000 Billion Bill Payments by Mail in 2013
According to a recent report from Aite Research, $1.062 billion of consumer payments will be done by mail in 2013 in the U.S. Thats compared to $1.769 billion done online. Payments with checks are declining, but as we can see here, they are still part of the second most used payment channel. Even if the […]