An Image Processing Control/Component by Pegasus Imaging Corporation

Technical Notes
- Programming environments: Win32 visual development environments
- Sample code is included for: VB.NET, C#, VB, Delphi, VC++, HTML
- Object-oriented API for .NET users
- Deploys within .NET as a managed control and is fully compliant with .NET 1.0 and above (see "Building Robust Imaging Components for the Microsoft .NET Platform" white paper)
- Can also be used in any development environment that hosts ActiveX COM controls
- Can be used in a multi-threaded environment
- Professional edition includes 8 controls: FormFix, FormDirector, ScanFix, ImagXpress, NotateXpress, ThumbnailXpress, TwainPRO and PrintPRO
- Support user-specified debug logging levels
- Optimized for speed, delivers matching results at sub-second speeds
- Supports over 10,000 unique form templates as candidates for matching
- Client/server Web development capabilities
- Increased image processing speed available via an easy to use multiple image buffering mechanism
- Two processing speeds are available (Standard and Professional editions)
- Free full-featured trial version available for immediate download

Form Setup
- API support for setting up fields, form templates, and sets of form templates
- Flexible architecture for defining custom operations at any stage of processing
- Define OMR, text, image, or custom fields on each form
- Extensive support for form processing operations

Form Identification
- Match forms against previously defined unfilled templates and return confidence values
- Provide automatic identification without the need for registration marks, ID marks, or anchor marks
- Match forms that are rotated 90, 180, or 270 degrees from template image
- Match forms that have been scaled from 90% to 110% of the template size
- Match forms scanned with resolution of 50% to 150% of the template resolution
- Match forms that are skewed up to 20 degrees by pre-processing with the included ScanFix
- Identify thousands of different forms
- Limit a recognition operation to a subset of the available templates
- Set the level of effort expended in completing form matching
- Return Identification Certainty indicating confidence of form matching
- Accept a Minimum Certainty level for acceptance as a matched form
- Return up to 100 alternative form matches of lower certainty
- Quickly identify forms, even when using very large sets of template forms

Form Registration
- Automatically align a filled form to its master template based on image contents, to within one or two pixels of the blank template without requiring registration marks
- Analyze the master template form content and determine anchor points automatically
- Adjust alignment within a drop out zone to compensate for small differences between forms
- Support an alternate registration process using anchor marks in each corner
- Register forms even when the forms exhibit these characteristics:
- Skew (up to 20 degrees)
- Smaller or larger image size than the template (up to 10%)
- Forms scanned at different resolutions (up to 50% greater and lesser) than the template resolution
- Rotation (at 90, 180, and 270 degrees from the template)

Form Drop Out
- Remove template forms at sub-second speeds
- Provide confidence values to highlight problem images
- Adjust for distortion caused by printing, copying or scanning
- Precisely remove lines, broken lines, shading, noise, guide text, and more
- Automatically repair text that intersects with lines or guide text defining the form, that was damaged during template removal (fills broken characters)
- Apply “character repair” across areas of the image where the form was removed
- Apply “character smoothing” to smooth the edges of characters for increased OCR accuracy
- Support for form drop out only within specified fields or the entire image
- Create new images using pixels cropped from a source image (field clips)