Kofax Forms Recognition Reads Generic Forms at Rated Speed

IRVINE, Calif., August 10, 1994 -- Kofax Image Products today announced the
September availability of a tool that can distinguish generic forms at
high speed with no degradation of scanner performance. The latest addition
to the Kofax family of Advanced Imaging Extensions for the KIPP. Advanced
Developers Toolkit, Forms Recognition also provides "best match"
percentages and information on registration displacement to improve the
accuracy of optical character and mark sense recognition.

Unlike most other packages on the market today, Forms Recognition does not
require custom-designed templates or special identification marks on
forms, according to Kevin Drum, Kofax director of marketing. It can
identify any form stored in memory and returns an estimate of matching
confidence for each scanned document.

Improves Indexing, Workflow Applications

Forms recognition technology detects specific form types as documents are
scanned into the system and generally is used in conjunction with indexing
or workflow applications. Optical recognition technologies, such as
optical character recognition (OCR) or mark sense detection can be
programmed to read specific zones or text areas in the document based on
the form classification. For example, three or four different types of
insurance claim forms, each designed differently, might be grouped and
scanned in a single batch. Forms Recognition would identify each type of
form so that OCR software can locate the desired fields and recognize the
characters prior to workflow queueing and routing.

The Forms Recognition extension from Kofax includes features to measure
variations in form sizes, common when processing faxed or photocopied
documents, and vertical or horizontal shift on the image. These
registration displacements can affect text positioning and, as a result,
the accuracy of optical recognition technologies.

"More than one third of all scanned documents are forms. Users in
high-volume document image processing environments need to accurately
identify document types without slowing down the capture process," Drum
said. "The Kofax Forms Recognition extension operates at the scanner's
rated speed, then adds the registration data that can improve OCR,
handwritting recognition and mark sense performance."

Add to Any KIPP Application

The capabilities of Forms Recognition can be added to any application
developed with the KIPP Advanced Developers Toolkit. Either a KF-9250 or
KF-9275 controller from Kofax is also required.

The new extension will ship in September for $1995. Other Advanced Imaging
Extensions compatible with the Kofax toolkit and currently available
include Bar Code Annotation, Bar Code Recognition, Deskew, Job Separation
Detection, Mark Sense Detection and Text Annotation.

Kofax Image Products was established in 1985 to develop products supporting
document image processing on the networked PC platform. Today the company
is the world leader in image processing software and hardware that
supports document scanning, compression, manipulation and printing. Kofax
sells its Kofax Image Processing Platform image processing boards and
software toolkits worldwide to resellers, integrators and OEMs who develop
complete document image processing solutions for end-users. In April of
1994, Kofax introduced the new Ascent family of modular software
applications that brings production-level document imaging capabilities to
the client-server environment.

Kofax Image Products
3 Jenner Street
Irvine, CA 92718-3807
714-727-1733,   FAX 714-727-3144

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