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1. Introduction

1.1. The aim of document and data capture

All sorts of different documents are now used everywhere, by businesses, industries, and services alike.

Applications, surveys, and invoices are an important part of the work of every enterprise or institution.

The current standard of information technology makes it impossible to operate with paper documents

only: most data must be converted into electronic format for storage, analysis, and further processing.

The main difficulty in processing a paper document is in entering the data into a computer system.

Traditional manual data input can only be justified if the volume of information is relatively small. If the

volume of information is large, manual input is inefficient because it is far too labor-intensive, slow, and

expensive. Manual input cannot be made more efficient overnight and the time and expense incurred by

an increase in manual input is more or less equivalent to the cost of starting the entire process cycle from

scratch.

Manual data input is clearly far from ideal. The alternative is much less problematic and much more

efficient – an automated data and document capture system. ABBYY FlexiCapture 8.0 Professional is

exactly such a system.

1.2. Automated document and data capture

ABBYY FlexiCapture 8.0 Professional is a software system for capturing data from documents of

various types: fixed forms, semi-structured documents, and non-structured documents.

Automated data capture involves the following steps:

• Scanning of a batch of pages using a scanner;

• Automatic assembly of scanned pages into documents;

• Automatic character recognition;

• If the program has generated multiple hypotheses about certain characters (i.e. the recognition of

these characters is uncertain), the characters are sent to the verification operator;

• Export of verified data to a file or database and saving of document images to the specified

folder. Images may be saved in graphical format or searchable PDF;

ABBYY FlexiCapture 8.0 Professional is an efficient solution for automated data capture that allows

you to monitor and manage data processing and to control the quality of input data.

The benefits of using ABBYY FlexiCapture 8.0 Professional

• Low cost. The system can be set up so that most operations are performed automatically, almost

completely without human intervention. The operator need only enter batches of documents into

the scanner feeder and verify uncertain characters. Instead of several workplaces devoted to

manual data input, you therefore only need one workplace equipped with ABBYY FlexiCapture

8.0 Professional.

• Faster input. Automating the entire process can significantly speed up document processing.

• High recognition quality. ABBYY award-winning technologies allow fast, high quality

character recognition. It is extremely difficult to achieve comparable quality with manual data

input without a significant drop in processing speed.

• Convenient to use and easy to learn. ABBYY FlexiCapture 8.0 Professional offers a user-

friendly interface, both for the system administrator and document-processor. No lengthy