Forms processing is the process whereby information (data) is extracted from scanned documents and can then be made available to your business systems. While OCR / ICR are now relatively established practices, computers can never be perfect and a good forms processing system will manage the whole process including validation and manual entry where that may be required.

There are many great forms processing packages available ranging in ability and price. We have evaluated all the mainstream packages and have chosen to work with a great solution from ABBYY that is well suited for smaller environments and is priced to suit many more of the businesses that we work with. ABBYY software is at the core of around half the packages in the market and we benefit from close ties to ABBYY both with their UK office and their European headquarters in Germany.

Do you need to process forms and automatically read handwriting as well as other structured information?

If you are processing forms in paper or web forms or are looking to process vast quantities of invoices or similar types of documents, we can help you streamline this manual process and read information in most formats. The result is a massively reduced admin overhead and great cost savings can be made.

Abbyy FlexiCapture forms recognitionFeatures of a Forms Recognition Solution

  • Fast Scanning of Structured Forms
  • Recognition of Hand writing
  • Reading check boxes
  • Zone OCR of key areas
  • Simple Design & Process
  • Easy export to XML / Spreadsheet/ CSV
  • Fast ROI
  • Easy to use
Abbyy FlexiCapture ICR

Tips & Tricks for Better Forms Recognition

Drop Out Colour

    It's a good idea to design the form in a single colour such as red or blue. Then when we scan a form we can set the scanner or the scanning software to "drop out" this colour. We are then left with the information we need to read. The ABBYY ICR (image character recognition engine) can read Hand print (capital letters) and handles cursive (free flowing writing) as well.

Multi Stream Scanning

    Using the right tools we can scan an image in colour and black & white. This means the colour image can be used for recognition and the black & white image can be archived in a document management system.

Seamless Integration

    To Get the best from your Intelligent Scanning, you need to make sure yor applications are all linked together so that data from the scanning can be sent straight into your database system. We can provide the code to make the processes work together.

Find Out More

    if you would like to find out more on Forms Processing solutions, call Click2Scan on 0845 873 8600 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .