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    My company are on the lookout for some software API that we can interface with from our WPF app. It is required to be able to scan data from a variety of pre-printed forms, filled in by hand (checkboxes and handwritten text). do you have any experience of any of the various products out there you could recommend (or otherwise?) There just isn't time to evaluate them all, so I'm looking for ways of significantly shortening my short list!

    MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

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      My company are on the lookout for some software API that we can interface with from our WPF app. It is required to be able to scan data from a variety of pre-printed forms, filled in by hand (checkboxes and handwritten text). do you have any experience of any of the various products out there you could recommend (or otherwise?) There just isn't time to evaluate them all, so I'm looking for ways of significantly shortening my short list!

      MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

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      You need a tool. Preferably a cheap one :)

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        My company are on the lookout for some software API that we can interface with from our WPF app. It is required to be able to scan data from a variety of pre-printed forms, filled in by hand (checkboxes and handwritten text). do you have any experience of any of the various products out there you could recommend (or otherwise?) There just isn't time to evaluate them all, so I'm looking for ways of significantly shortening my short list!

        MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

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        Have a look at the products of Abbyy http://www.abbyy.com/[^] Allows you to create and read the templates and has an API. Been a while since I worked with it, so I don't know how up-to-date they are...

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          Have a look at the products of Abbyy http://www.abbyy.com/[^] Allows you to create and read the templates and has an API. Been a while since I worked with it, so I don't know how up-to-date they are...

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          thanks - they're on my list. - Were they any good when you did work with them?

          MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

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            You need a tool. Preferably a cheap one :)

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            Tanks for your kind suggestion, perhaps you would recommend one? Instead of trying to be funny :mad:

            MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

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              thanks - they're on my list. - Were they any good when you did work with them?

              MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

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              It was very easy to create the templates, just scan a document and add the areas of interest in a designer. Then you use the template to process whatever you need to process. The API to automate was very straightforward. We did have some problems with it in production but that was down to GIGO in combination with the used hardware... It just couldn't deal with lipstick on the documents (and no, you don't want to know :~)

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                Tanks for your kind suggestion, perhaps you would recommend one? Instead of trying to be funny :mad:

                MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

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                Sorry for not understanding my pun :(

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                  Sorry for not understanding my pun :(

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                  I still don't...

                  MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

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                    It was very easy to create the templates, just scan a document and add the areas of interest in a designer. Then you use the template to process whatever you need to process. The API to automate was very straightforward. We did have some problems with it in production but that was down to GIGO in combination with the used hardware... It just couldn't deal with lipstick on the documents (and no, you don't want to know :~)

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                    Jonathan Nethercott
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                    ABBYY Finereader 9.0 came free with my scanner. It's very good - and the OCR works very well - although handwritten text is a bit hit and miss - but personally I'm amazed it can do it all. I can't say about the API though - I haven't used it. They have trial versions on the website - so I'd recommend trying those first.

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                    • L Lost User

                      I still don't...

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                      A tool is a person you use as a fool.

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                      • B Bassam Abdul Baki

                        A tool is a person you use as a fool.

                        Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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                        Have I passed into some strange parallel universe? What the heck is everyone talking about?

                        MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

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                          Have I passed into some strange parallel universe? What the heck is everyone talking about?

                          MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

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                          Bassam Abdul Baki
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                          Leppie said "You need a tool. Preferably a cheap one". What he implied was hire someone cheap to type it for you manually.

                          Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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                          • B Bassam Abdul Baki

                            Leppie said "You need a tool. Preferably a cheap one". What he implied was hire someone cheap to type it for you manually.

                            Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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                            leppie
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                            TADA.WAV

                            :)

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