Intelliant OCR Description:

Intelliant OCR is an optical character recognition commandline utility, able to convert scanned images into a searchable PDF format, including both image and text in a same standard container. This increases the value of your intellectual capital, allowing you to best utilize your image documents with any search engine. It is remarkably fast, light (the installator weighs only 5 Mb) and the recognition function makes quite a nice job for the main european languages. Several text and image compression methods allow to enormously reduce the size of the documents. Input images can be in all the flavours of the TIFF format, even already encapsulated in a PDF document. Currently Intelliant OCR only processes monochrome inputs, but the support of gray level and colour documents will soon be available. Output documents can be in ASCII format, smart ASCII (tries to produce text as much like the original image as possible), RTF and PDF. You can specify all security options and properties (title, author, subject and keywords) in the version 1.4 of Adobe PDF format.

Above all Intelliant OCR can be easily integrated in your existing document management system. As a demonstration, we provide configuration files allowing you to plug Intelliant OCR "out of the box" into Alfresco document management system (the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management). For example, you will be able to define OCR transformations that you can use within basic content rules (for example, transform to PDF all TIFF images dropped into a specific folder).
Benefits:

Above all, it's a commandline application, which means that it can be very easily integrated in your existing document management system. As a demonstration, we provide configuration files allowing you to plug Intelliant OCR into Alfresco ECM "out of the box". For example, you will be able to define OCR transformations that you can use within basic content rules (for example, transform to PDF all TIFF images dropped into a specific folder).

The OCR engine is based on Tiger OCR and it's remarkably fast. Its brute processing capabilities are one of the most powerfull ones available today. This is necessary if you want to be able to make capital out of your voluminous existing image archives.

Intelliant OCR is also very light (the installator weighs only 5 Mb) and it doesn't require much of computer's resources.

The recognition function makes quite a nice job for the main european languages.

Several text and image compression methods allow to enormously reduce the size of the documents.

Input images can be in all the flavours of the TIFF format, even already encapsulated in a PDF document. Currently Intelliant OCR only processes monochrome inputs, but the support of gray level and colour documents will soon be available.

Output documents can be in ASCII format, smart ASCII (tries to produce text as much like the original image as possible), RTF and PDF. You can specify all security options and properties (title, author, subject and keywords) in the version 1.4 of Adobe PDF format.