
Automatic Reader
Features
The following tables
summarize the Automatic Reader features categorized as General Features,
Image Processing & Recognition Features, and Technical & Integration
Specifications.
Available in two new versions
OCR 9.0 Gold Edition
- OCR 9.0
Platinum Edition
General Features
|
No. |
Feature |
Description |
|
1 |
Performance and
Accuracy |
800 characters per
second on PIII-based computer.
Up to 99%accuracy in
recognizing Arabic books, newspapers, and similar quality scanned
documents. |
|
2 |
Languages Supported |
Sakhr OCR recognizes:
-
The
main Arabic based characters languages: Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Jawi,
Pashto (Farsi, Urdu, Jawi, and Pashto come in an extra language pack).
-
As well
as 18 other international languages (as it includes the most powerful
Latin OCR engine – ScanSoft): English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish,
French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian,
Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. |
|
3 |
Language Pair
Supported |
Sakhr's Automatic
Reader recognizes scans with bi-lingual content of:
Arabic/English,
Arabic/French, and Farsi/English |
|
4 |
Recognition
Technologies |
Sakhr's OCR supports
both OMNI and Learning technologies to obtain higher accuracy in
different fonts. |
|
5 |
Supported Input
Formats |
Sakhr OCR can deal
with different image format standards (BMP, TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PMB, PCX,
PDF, FAX, Multiage, and other standard formats)
Sakhr OCR supports
also PDF based images; which is needed especially with Document and
Content Management Systems. |
|
6 |
Supported Output
Formats |
Sakhr OCR can save
the output text in different formats such as txt, rtf, and HTML. |
|
7 |
Supported Scanners |
Sakhr OCR works with
any type of scanner simplex or duplex, using any of the Twain, KOFAX,
or ISIS protocols. |
|
8 |
Send E-Mails |
Ability to send OCR
results by e-mail. |
|
9 |
Interface |
User friendly
Arabic/English
interface that allows the program usage to be easy and productive. |
|
10 |
Help |
Comprehensive help is
provided in both Arabic and English. |
|
11 |
Personal Archive |
Users can organize
images in structured and hierarchical folders for faster reach. |
Image Processing and
Recognition Features
Sakhr OCR is backed up with
the following unique features:
|
No. |
Feature |
Description |
|
1 |
Powerful Imaging
Enhancement Tools |
Supports automatic and
manual image rotation and fixing, image skew removal, shading removal,
zooming, and white on black text. |
|
2 |
Diacritics |
Recognizes or skips
diacritics in Arabic images. |
|
3 |
Preserving Document
Layout |
Recognizes and supports
tables (with a special support for ill-formed tables), column, pictures,
page size detection, and paragraph indentation in scanned images. |
|
4 |
Characters Formats |
Recognizes underlined
words, and automatically detects style for fonts (Regular or Bold). |
|
5 |
Input Quality |
Recognizes broken and
connected characters, and colored documents. |
|
6 |
Framing Modes
|
Supports both automatic
and manual framing modes, and the ability to save frames it files and
apply the saved frames as templates.
Supports non
rectangular frames. |
|
7 |
Pre-Configured Modes |
Sakhr OCR groups many
of OCR recognition attributes (e.g., broken words, noise average, etc.)
into predefined types of source documents (e.g., magazines, newspapers,
old books, etc.). Users can choose the source document type, and
accordingly OCR will apply the pre-configured OCR attributes that suits
the chosen type. These modes can be updated with the user input and
saved for future usage. |
|
8 |
Arabic Language
Morphological Support |
Sakhr NLP technologies
for Arabic Language are used to correct the recognition results (like
Morphological Analyzer, Morphological Syntax, Statistical Language
Pattern, Arabic Thesaurus and other NLP technologies to enhance OCR
results). Also Sakhr OCR includes Sakhr corrector as well as an English
spellchecker. This is a unique feature in Arabic OCR field which makes
Sakhr OCR accuracy incomparable. |
|
9 |
Batch Mode |
Support 4 different
types of batch Mode:
-
Scan &
Save
-
Scan &
Recognize
-
Load &
Recognize
-
Scan &
Save Then Load & Recognize |
|
10 |
Program operating modes |
Works as standalone
application with interactive interface or through a wizard from which
user can perform all program functions, or as a menu item from other
applications. |
Technical and
Integration Specifications
Sakhr OCR is backed up with
the following unique features:
|
No. |
Feature/Spec. |
Description |
|
1 |
Working Platforms |
Runs under Windows 98
(A or E), NT or 2000, and XP (Arabic-Enabled). |
|
2 |
Aware |
Capability of running the OCR recognition from the menu of word
processing software such as MS Notepad, MS WordPad, MS word, etc… |
|
3 |
SDK (available only for
the Platinum Edition) |
The SDK supports scanning without opening OCR application;
and enables the user to highlight a specific recognized word in the
image. The SDK contains:
-
OLE
Automation
-
OCX
-
Dll
(Standard APIs) |
|
4 |
Training Material |
Includes demos and
training materials for powerful usage, maximum accuracy with minimum
effort. |
Automatic Reader
9.0
Multilingual OCR
System Requirements:
CPU 486 - Pentium II 300 ||
5 Mbytes - 400 Mbytes ||
32 Mbytes - 64 Mbytes
MS Arabic. Win 9x, Arabic NT,
or any Win 2000, XP ||CD-ROM
(Set Arabic as Default Language in Win 2000/XP OS, Prior to Installation)
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