ABBYY FlexiCapture Studio is a new software tool based on ABBYYs FlexiCapture Technology. FlexiCapture Studio increases the capabilities of FormReader 6.0, ABBYYs forms processing application, and FineReader Engine 7.1 *, a Software Development Kit, allowing them to extract data from forms with similar data but different layouts, such as invoices, health claim forms, resumes, or loan documents. Data can be extracted from documents scanned with different resolutions.

ABBYY FlexiCapture Studio is intended for developers, VARs and integrators who want to expand their business and supply their clients with reliable and effective data capture solutions. ABBYY FlexiCapture Studio provides an easy-to-use front end access to the development know-how previously used only by ABBYY in-house developers in large-scale forms processing projects.

FlexiCapture Studio is built on powerful db;eand time-tested ABBYY technologies which in their turn are based on the IPA principles that imitate the way humans recognize objects. The purpose of FlexiCapture Studio is to “teach” FormReader or the FineReader Engine to find the required fields on forms with variable layouts. ABBYY FlexiCapture Studio creates a formalized description of forms that have similar data but different layout. This formalized description, called FlexiLayout, tells FormReader or the FineReader Engine how to look for a particular field: the program analyzes the form, finds objects that can be found and recognized without fail, and then uses these objects as reference to find the data fields and capture their contents.

This flexible tool allows you to choose the way of creating a flexible layout, or FlexiLayout — by selecting options in the programs dialog boxes or by writing the code in a formalized FlexiCapture language. Even if you have no programming background, you can easily create a FlexiLayout.

The powerful and flexible technologies used in ABBYY FlexiCapture Studio allow you to create a FlexiLayout for extracting data from both simple and complex documents on which the location of similar fields may vary greatly. FlexiCapture Studio uses a unique algorithm to detect data fields. Unlike other similar applications which analyze separate elements one by one, FlexiCapture Studio uses the whole sets of form objects to identify the required fields. This drastically reduces errors and speeds up the entire process.