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. | Imagination Software Adds VBX Support for "Voting" OCR through Prime Recognition's PrimeOCR. Imagination Software adds Prime Recognition's PrimeOCR "Voting" OCR engine to its growing list of imaging engines supported in its industry-leading VBX toolkit, IMAGinE. IMAGinE is the imaging industry's leading multi-engine VBX toolkit that provides access to over 20 imaging engines covering 20 categories of imaging functionality from within a single, simple-to-use VBX. IMAGinE's new support for Prime Recognition's PrimeOCR engine means that users can access the higher accuracy benefits of voting OCR with minimal coding effort. Imagination Software will be shipping a special bundle of IMAGinE that includes Prime Recognition's PrimeOCR engine, along with a compression, print, scan, and image cleanup engine starting at $3,500 by August 1, 1995. "Although we have several OCR engines already supported in IMAGinE, our new support for Prime Recognition's PrimeOCR allows users to easily integrate sophisticated OCR voting techniques into their applications with virtually no programming effort. Prime Recognition is an impressive voting OCR engine that uses the best conventional OCR software from Caere, Calera, Expervision, Maxsoft-Ocron, and Xerox with complete flexibility, and enhances the OCR output by up to 80% using its proprietary voting technology," says Larry Klein, president of Imagination Software. "We are demonstrating our commitment to bringing imaging mainstream by supporting over 20 engines, both low-end technologies as well as high-end technologies such as PrimeOCR, into a seamless VBX so that users can integrate the imaging solutions they need when they need them." "State-of-the-art VBX-based toolkits such as IMAGinE provide the modularity and functionality needed for rapid image application development," says Kenn Dahl, President of Prime Recognition. "IMAGinE's support for PrimeOCR gives our customers yet another avenue for accessing the highest level of OCR accuracy currently available. If they need an end-user product, they can use our PrimeProof Zoning and Verification Tool. To access our OCR engine directly, the can use the PrimeOCR Software Developer's Kit. And if VBX-based access is desired, they can now use IMAGinE." Easy Imaging Integration Through IMAGinE IMAGinE 4.0, the Visual Basic custom control (VBX) and application from Imagination Software, Inc., is a powerful, comprehensive and easy-to-use imaging tool. Users and programmers of all levels can use and integrate 20 categories of imaging features including viewing, printing, scanning, image clean-up, programmable annotations, forms overlay, forms extraction and processing, OCR barcode recognition, mark sense, ICR, and more. The industry-leading unique multi-engine support allows users to select from over 20 different engines for different tasks. Higher Accuracy Through PrimeOCR's "Voting" Technology Developed for the production OCR marketplace, PrimeOCR is a Windows 3.1X based software OCR engine and Application Programming Interface (API) toolkit. Combining proprietary "Voting" algorithms and sophisticated recognition technology with software licensed from the best retail OCR vendors, PrimeOCR is able to reduce OCR errors by an average of 65% over conventional OCR products. This reduces the cost of manual error correction by 65%, which often accounts for over 50% of the total annual imaging system cost. PrimeOCR also marks a higher percentage of recognition errors than conventional OCR products. This, combined with PrimeOCR's higher accuracy, results in 70-75% fewer errors left in the final document after manual error correction. And, since PrimeOCR provides better accuracy on lower quality images, end-users can now cost-effectively OCR many of those images that used to be keyed in by hand. PrimeOCR also has upgrade options that provide 75% and 80% higher accuracy. Prime Recognition, Inc. Prime Recognition designs and develops advanced character recognition software for the production OCR marketplace. Prime Recognition's goal is to facilitate the acceptance of OCR by reducing errors through the use of sophisticated "Voting" technology. Headquartered in San Carlos, California, Prime Recognition (650-631-9800) markets its products through systems integrators and imaging application vendors. Imagination Software, Inc. Imagination Software develops and markets imaging custom controls (VBX/OCX), and applications built on imaging custom controls. Imagination Software is based in Silver Spring, MD, and can be reached at (301) 588-8411 or fax to (301) 588-1912. |