The imaging module offers support for opening image files in various input formats. Next to image file access basic image processing (resolution- and pixel conversion, compression…) is provided.

• Standard:
  This standard module allows you to open the most common input formats including JPEG, TIFF (CCITT G4 and Packbit compressed), BMP, GIF, PNG and PDF*.
  *Input in PDF supported through Third Party module

• External:
  iDRS can use external imaging toolkits such as LeadTools to extend its imaging functionalities.

Pre-processing

Provides image pre-processing capabilities allowing image enhancement to increase the accuracy and interpretability of the image resulting in optimal recognition results.

• Standard pre-processing
  The standard pre-processing module offers several image enhancement techniques to improve the OCR result: skew correction, despeckling, adaptive and threshold based binarization, pixel inversion…

• Advanced pre-processing
  The advanced pre-processing module offers more advanced pre-processing capabilities: color dropout after binarization, advanced despeckling, dark border removal, line removal and interpolation.

Recognition

The recognition engines for machine print (OCR, MICR), handprint (ICR) and barcode recognition.

• OCR
  The IRIS OCR engine currently supports 137 languages under which all Latin languages, Greek, Cyrillic, etc.
  Add-ons offer recognition of Asian languages, Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi.
  Next to pure recognition the OCR module also offers page analysis, access to the recognized data and formatting information, possibility to load user lexicons and many other recognition related functions such as:
  - Page-layout analysis: automatic detection of text, graphic, table and barcode zones.
  - Detailed recognition information: access to the character confidence level, alternative solutions, the coordinates of each character…
  - User Lexicon support: a user lexicon containing specific terms can be loaded into the engine. This is very useful for the recognition of very specific information like for example pharmaceutical names.
  - Formatting information: paragraph attributes, typefaces, font size, typestyle, color, drop capital.
  - Character recognition: recognition of ligatures ("joined" characters), broken and degraded characters (6 to 72 point size)
  
• ICR
  I.R.I.S. has developed its own Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) engine for all Latin based languages. Supports spaced and even touching handprint.
• Banking Fonts - MICR
  The following banking fonts can be recognized: OCR-A, OCR-B, E13B and CMC-7.
• Asian add-on
  The Asian add-on extends the OCR languages with 4 additional languages: Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
• Hebrew add-on
  The Hebrew add-on extends the OCR languages with the Hebrew language.
• Arabic & Farsi add-on
  Offers recognition of Arabic and Farsi.
• Barcode 1D
  The barcode module will identify any barcode located anywhere on a page. 24 different 1-dimensional barcodes are supported covering the most popular ones as code 39, EAN, Code 128, etc.
• Barcode 2D
  The IRIS barcode engine also supports the recognition of PDF 417 and QR barcodes. 2-dimensional barcodes containing much more information than the 1-dimensional barcodes.

Formatting

• Standard
  The following output formats are available in this module: PDF (text, image-text, text-image and image), PDF/A-1b, HTML, XML, RTF, TXT, UNICODE, UTF-8, ODT, WordML, SpreadsheetML and CSV.
  
• Advanced
  This module offers additional compressed output formats like for example PDF iHQC™: Hyper Compressed PDF.
  

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