• Comfortable tree-view visualization environment for FlexiLayout creation, editing and testing.
• Moving elements by using drag&drop.
• Highlighting blocks and elements in different colours depending on their type and status (found/not found).
• Blocks and elements can be shown/hidden for the sake of convenience.
• Program windows can be customized and resized for the optimal screen layout.

• Unique ABBYY FlexiCapture technology to describe layouts of semi-structured documents.
• ABBYY's award-winning recognition and document analysis technologies used as a background for layout description.

• Images in the following formats can be added to a batch: PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PCX, DCX, PNG, and BMP.

• Detecting such objects as text, words, lines, separators, barcodes, and pictures.
• OCR:
  • 172 natural languages with Latin, Cyrillic or Greek alphabets;
  • multi-language recognition.
• optical barcode recognition:
• 1D (Code 39, Check Code 39, Interleaved 25, Check Interleaved 25, EAN 8, EAN 13, Code 128, IATA 25);
• 2D (PDF 417).
• full and fast pre-recognition modes
• viewing recognized image by types

There are two types of FlexiLayouts objects: blocks which contain required data, and elements, objects which help to search for the fields.

• Types of blocks: text, tables, barcodes, checkmarks, pictures.
• Types of elements:
• simple elements (static text, separator, white gap, barcode, character string, text fragment, object collection, table, date, phone, currency);
• compound elements, i.e. simple elements joined by AND.

• FlexiLayout is created by setting elements properties in comfortable dialogs.
• Various element properties can be specified depending on the type of element:
• text to be searched with possible alternatives and numbers of errors;
• columns, rows, header and footer properties for tables;
• search constraints with absolute search area coordinates and relative position over other elements;
• advanced settings by writing code in FlexiCapture language with automated checking its syntax of and displaying error messages.
• Settings advanced one-to-many relations between elements.
• Building FlexiLayout at any time of its creation for checking it for errors.

• On-the-fly testing and adjusting of FlexiLayout by using a batch of sample images.
• Formulating a set of hypotheses, i.e. assumptions that the detected objects correspond to the elements:
• ypotheses are created for the whole set of elements but the not just a single element;
• if several hypotheses are formulated they are arranged in tree-like structure and ranked by their quality;
• the best hypothesis are selected and marked;
• relation between FlexiLayout element and possible hypothesis is visualized;
• the concept of null hypothesis allows user to continue creation of hypothesis tree in the case some optional elements cannot be found;
• hypotheses are grouped in clusters and displayed depending on the types of elements and search results (found/not found).
• Comfortable testing of FlexiLayout matching by using reference layout that can be created:
• by drawing elements manually;
• by correcting the results of matching.

• Export of build FlexiLayout as *.afl file, which can be used in FormReader or FineReader Engine for processing semi-structured documents.

• FlexiCapture Studio comes as optional module to ABBYY FormReader family as well as ABBYY FineReader Engine and requires special license that enables both creation and processing of FlexiLayouts.
• Data capture application (FormReader or FineReader Engine based) that uses FlexiLayouts requires special license that enables processing of FlexiLayouts.

Get more information on how FlexiCapture Studio works.