What do you get when you take all the best of LEADTOOLS and wrap it up in an app? The LEADTOOLS Doc Scanner App. A combination of the award-winning LEADTOOLS Recognition, Document, and Imaging engines bring to life an app built by the developers here at LEAD that gives you the ability to accomplish any task with images and documents all in the palm of your hand!

In our previous blog, we discussed the benefits of using the LEADTOOLS Document SDK to easily recognize hundreds of different forms and invoices. This post will build off of that, showcasing how to then automatically extract information and data from the recognized forms.

First, we will identify and then process the fields. The fields are the various locations on the form that were set when we created the master form (or template) for each invoice or specific form type. Our processing engine will look for data in those designated areas. There are many types of data fields including text, images, tables, OMR bubbles, and barcodes. Our engine loads and processes all the fields for the developer to then easily write how they want that information distributed. It is often good practice to check to see what type of field was processed and then write code for that type accordingly.

We were recently put in contact with an experienced technical blogger and web developer, Dick Strauss, about exploring the possibility of conducting a product review. He found our product line interesting and something his readers might benefit from. We were happy to partner up with him and gave him a development license for one of our most popular products, LEADTOOLS Recognition.

Not only did he navigate our documentation and rapidly implement both full-page and zonal OCR with little effort, but he found that LEADTOOLS was, in his opinion, a "stunning product" rather than just a "good functional product." He experienced the entire process of using LEADTOOLS, including unlocking support with his development license, starting a project from scratch, and firing off some questions to our outstanding support department.

There is a great and growing need for people and organizations to be able to quickly recognize and extract data from documents, images, and forms that are filled with varying areas of machine printed text, handwriting, graphics, and more (think: almost every type of form you’ve had to fill out and sign). Handwritten text specifically has been historically difficult to recognize due to variations in each and every sample set of handwriting. With LEAD’s continued commitment to advancing OCR technology, our developers set out to create a solution. Version 21 brings a new and improved ICR engine as well as brand new Mixed Mode AutoZone capabilities.

Organizations all over the world are quickly adapting to their employees working remotely right now. Many programmers are hurrying to develop solutions to help keep teams working and exchanging information in effective new ways. Luckily, LEADTOOLS can help. LEAD is going on 30 years of providing developers with the code they need to hit the ground running and now is no exception.