Significant accuracy improvements, along with a simpler API and robust new technologies make version 15 the most powerful OmniPage Capture SDK release ever.

Building on its tradition of delivering the power and accuracy of OmniPage to commercial and in-house developers, the OmniPage Capture SDK 15 continues to deliver best-of-breed imaging, recognition, and PDF solutions in one single toolkit. This release offers our most accurate OCR and layout retention yet, along with enhanced dual-core and hyper-thread processing support that together provide high levels of accuracy with no speed-trade offs. The addition of new Workflow controls and Logical Form Recognition and Processing capabilities that are designed to streamline application development and provide added value to your product.

Refreshed and updated in every way, the OmniPage Capture SDK 15 is destined to remain the #1 OCR toolkit in the world and the continued choice of imaging technology providers among nearly all commercial vendors implementing imaging into their applications.

• New! Support for the .NET Managed Environment
  OmniPage Capture SDK 15 now offers support for .NET, one of the leading development environments among programmers. C# and VB.NET sample recognition programs and sample viewers are included.
• Improved! The Most Accurate OCR
  Newly developed 3-way voting system provides a 36% increase in accuracy over previous versions. Regardless of whether your top priority is layout retention, accuracy, or speed, the OmniPage Capture SDK offers ultimate scalability in engine configurations to meet the broad range of customer application requirements.
• Improved! Enhanced dual-core and multi-thread processor support
  Better multithreading applied in the OmniPage Capture SDK lets you exploit the full potential of your processing environment. In multi-page mode, OmniPage Capture SDK 15 ran up to 34% faster than previous versions.
• New! Support for Workflow
  Developers can create workflows to simplify and speed up the development process, while streamlining their application. Your end-users benefit from these workflows in two significant ways, reduced training time and workload balancing that results in performance boosts of up to 40%.
• New! Logical Form Recognition and Processing Technology
  OmniForm’s award-winning Logical Form Recognition technology is now available in OmniPage Capture SDK 15. LFR provides the framework for building complete form solutions including automated generation of an XML form template file that can be loaded and registered against completed forms to collect and process form data.
• New! Support for Text-To-Speech (TTS)
  OmniPage Capture SDK 15 includes Nuance’s RealSpeak Text-to-Speech technology. It is the only OCR SDK that enables applications to turn paper and digital documents into human-sounding audio files. Not only is this an important way to provide document support for disabled users, it allows everyone to save documents to files that can be played on personal computers and mobile devices, including Apple iPod.
• Improved! Recognition Modules
  Updated ICR and other engines reduce errors by 20% of the range of standards – Handprint, OCR A, OCR B, E13B (MICR), OMR. This release also offers barcode accuracy improvements of 20%, along with expanded 2D support to include Data Matrix. Color and grayscale barcodes are now also supported.
• Improved! Accuracy in Asian OCR
  The Asian OCR module is now up to 25% more accurate and uses a full English engine (vs. a light, built-in English engine) to recognize English text embedded in Asian documents. OmniPage Capture SDK 15 Asian OCR supports output of multi-page files, including multi-page RTF with color, grayscale, or black and white pictures, and multi-page searchable PDF.
• Improved! Updated Professional Toolbox
  New controls have been added to our already robust Professional Toolbox to provide added workflow, document, and image functionality, including:
  
  
  • Display statistical information and a draft of the document
  • Access and change output converter settings
  • Create OmniPage compatible workflows
  • Provide details and progress about the workflow being executed on the system
  • Display and edit form fields and attributes
  
  We’ve also included our Scanner Enhancement Technology (SET) tools in this release. Now you can use point-and-click SET tools to improve the quality of scanned documents, faxes and poor quality copies.
• New! Simpler API and architecture
  Fully refreshed and updated API provides developers with the most current OmniPage engine available – which provide significantly improved document layout retention, and OP 15 time saving enhancement features such as Logical Form Recognition and Workflow. The updated API makes the OmniPage Capture SDK 15 a more stable product and promises a 50% reduction in application development time over previous versions.
• Improved! PDF functionality
  We’ve added more to our already extensive PDF capabilities, with the addition of Multi-Raster Content (MRC) PDFs and the ability to generate PDF/Archive (PDF/A) files. MRC technology segments PDF files into layers, which optimizes the file size and quality. The end result is high-quality PDF file and up to 85% smaller than the original file. This release also generates PDF/A, the electronic document file format for long-term preservation.