Significant accuracy and speed improvements plus robust new features and continued innovation make version 16 the most comprehensive OmniPage Capture SDK release ever. Refreshed and updated with significant improvements without changing the API from version 15, it’s easy to upgrade your application’s capabilities with the OmniPage Capture SDK 16. Features aside, the performance improvements alone insure that the OmniPage Capture SDK is destined to remain the #1 OCR toolkit in the world and the continued choice of imaging technology providers among nearly all commercial imaging vendors

• Improved! Increased Accuracy
  Already judged by industry experts to be the most accurate OCR solution available, the new OmniPage Capture SDK release delivers an increase in accuracy over already impressive previous versions due to pre-processing binarization that improves image quality before the OCR process occurs. Best of all the new release delivers superior accuracy with improved throughput where alternative SDK products exchange accuracy for slower throughput – making the OmniPage Capture SDK the ideal solution for high-volume document capture applications.
• Improved! The Fastest OmniPage Capture SDK Ever!
  Now work up to 67% faster than ever before. Improved hyper-threading accounts for 20% of the all new speed increase in the OmniPage Capture SDK. New parallel processing algorithms developed in cooperation with Intel segment multi-page document conversion tasks over multi-core processors for unrivaled performance. Where lesser OCR SDKs will sacrifice accuracy for speed, OmniPage leads the industry on both counts.
• Improved! Unrivaled Layout Retention
• Superior Table Recognition – Table accuracy is the most requested improvement in the conversion of paper or PDF files to fully editable documents. Table analysis has been improved to better cope with the large variety or ways a table can be created and formatted with text, numbers and borders. OmniPage Capture SDK delivers accurate results for table cells and rows containing multi-line texts within a cell, correcting splitting methods for incompletely filled tables, improving the decision-making on separator lines and preventing tables of contents (TOC) from being recognized as tables.



• Support for Vertical Text - Vertical text is most often used as labels for graphics, inside tables, or for naming document pages. Automatic detection and zoning of left or right rotated vertical text including detection inside table cells is now available in the OmniPage Capture SDK. The Professional Visual Toolbox has also been upgraded to accommodate vertical text so that plug-in zoning tools and text-editor can be easily added to your application.



• Fast and Accurate Font Matching and Spacing – Using an incorrect font or using word and character spacing incorrectly can affect the layout of a document significantly as text lines overflow or become artificially compressed in a column. Both font attribute recognition and font mapping are improved for Western languages in the OmniPage Capture SDK while the font matching is better aligned with language choice in the Asian kit for accurate layouts.



• Automatic Margin Correction and Page Consolidation - Uniform page margins can become distorted, clipped or exaggerated through scanning causing uneven margins from page to page in the final output. The OmniPage Capture SDK 16 examines incoming pages, can determine if that they have a similar text area and layout, and automatically produces the optimum page margins that most closely match the original for final output.



• Large Title Recognition – Large titles pose recognition challenges because they can be overly stylized resulting in distorted characters, blend with multiple background colors or run into pictures. Innovative new algorithms identify page areas that could be either titles or pictures and examine them more carefully, searching for letter-like shapes and getting the recognition correct.



• Special Recognition of Legal Document Elements - The OmniPage Capture SDK 16 introduces unique algorithms to better handle specialty legal documents often called pleading documents. Legal recognition addresses pleading numbers (line numbers at the edge or margin of the document), document identifiers (naming the plaintiff, defendant and case number), and the optional removal of page headers, notes, stamps and markups. Combined with other high value features in the OmniPage Capture SDK you can now build specialty applications for profitable legal and government markets.
• Improved! Superior Parsing of Text-based PDF Documents
  Text-based PDF files already contain information necessary to reproduce a PDF into an editable format so no OCR process is necessary. Alternative OCR SDK products that cannot accurately read all this information will treat the PDF as an image and apply a more inaccurate OCR process. The OmniPage Capture SDK is unique in being able to accurately read a text based PDF and converting it into editable formats that look just like the original.
• Improved! Integrated Asian OCR Kit
  Recognition and associated services are provided for Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean using a common API with the Western kit. This means Asian OCR is available through a vastly improved interface compared to the separate Asian version 15; in place of its 40-50 functions, there are now over 200 accessible functions for control and operation consistent with the Western Kit.
• Improved! Enhanced Support for 24/7 Applications
  The OmniPage Capture SDK 16 introduces new features to make high-volume and unattended 24/7 processing more robust. A new self-standing sample application and Windows service demonstrate how an application can be properly architected for 24/7 use. It is now possible to separate the OmniPage Capture SDK code from the user application process delivering unrivaled flexibility and robustness for unattended high-volume tasks. Updated coding guidelines and samples ensure reliable operation.
• New! True Office 2007 Output Including DOCX, XLSX, PPTX & XPS
  Nuance and Microsoft have had a close relationship on OCR and document conversion for many years, including a collaboration that resulted in PDF Converter, the first-ever solution that accurately turned PDF into Microsoft Office Word documents. The collaboration has continued through the development of export filters for OmniPage that leverage the Ecma Open XML file formats used in 2007 Microsoft Office system applications, including Office Word (.docx), Office PowerPoint (.pptx) and Office Excel (.xlsx). Nuance has also added robust support for the XML Paper Specification, XPS, which enables document sharing and archiving with Windows Vista. Now you can deliver these innovations to your customers through the OmniPage Capture SDK.
• New! Amazing 3DC Digital Camera Image Correction Technology
  The ability to perform OCR on a digital camera image was the #1 requested new feature for OmniPage 16. Now this technology is available for developers to build into their own applications with the OmniPage Capture SDK. Innovative new 3DC technology automatically adjusts for skew, waves and 3-D perspective. The results are up to 74% more accurate! So go ahead and let your customers grab a camera – with the OmniPage Capture SDK 16 it’s both easy and accurate to click, capture and convert text without a scanner.
• New! Powerful Automatic Data Collection from Machine Printed or Text-based PDF Forms
  For organizations needing a better way to implement electronic and paper forms processes, scanning and OCR alone are not sufficient. While sending PDF forms is easy, the challenge is in processing completed forms into data – a challenge that is met with the new release of OmniPage Capture SDK 16. Now developers can create applications that can batch process either machine print paper or PDF forms and let the OmniPage Capture SDK automate the data extraction into CSV files suitable for Microsoft Office Excel and database applications.
• New! Unique ‘Scan-and-Redact’
  Handling sensitive information is a serious concern for government and corporate organizations, as well as individuals concerned with names and email addresses, social security and phone numbers and other information that can be used by identity thieves. OmniPage Capture SDK 16 is the only OCR development kit to address this concern, making redaction – the removal of text from an image and PDF file – a core feature. Users can set sensitive words or phrases as an attribute prior to scanning, and any application developed with the OmniPage Capture SDK can redact on the fly. Developers can also plug-in interfaces so their users can select highlight-for-redaction, where candidate words are highlighted for review by the individual or others prior to the final redaction step. Nuance has submitted a patent application for the redaction capabilities delivered in the OmniPage Capture SDK.
• New! Productive ‘Scan-and-Highlight’
  Being able to visually scan a document and instantly identify words or phrases with a highlighted color is important for so many business, government and educational documents. OmniPage Capture SDK 16 is the only OCR development kit to address this need, making the automatic highlighting of text an easy to implement feature in your application. Your users can set words or phrases as an attribute prior to scanning, and any application developed with the OmniPage Capture SDK can highlight those words on the fly with the results appearing in PDF or Word files.
• Improved! One-Button Workflow
  In order to distill complex, multi-step document recognition tasks into a single click, the OmniPage Capture SDK 16 provide an inventive new Workflow interface that can be dropped into an application making the creation and use of document workflows easier than ever. In addition to all the new features and formats that Workflows now have through the SDK we’ve also added native support for the ODMA content management standard and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in order to make storing documents even easier.