Intelligent Systems Report € December € 1995 € Volume 12 € No. 12

Intelligent Applications


Document remittance processor

Caere's Model 1800 is a neural network-based document remittance processor. Designed for small- to medium-sized businesses with remittance processing needs of up to 10,000 documents/day, the Model 1800 provides a complete hardware solution for document processing that both scans remittance documents and prepares accompanying check payments for deposit - combined all in one small desktop unit.

The Model 1800 reads optical character recognition (OCR) information on remittance documents and provides means for encoding on-check journal tracking, endorsing, and sorting of accompanying check payments. The Model 1800 provides the capabilities to: read OCR and magnetic data on remittance documents, freeing the operator from manually entering information; encode; provide on-check journal tracking; endorse, and sort checks in up to 12 bins. It provides a read processing rate of up to 4,000 documents per hour and an encoding rate of up to 1,800 documents per hour. The Model 1800 utilizes feature extraction and neural network-based recognition technologies to achieve accuracy rates of over 99.99%. Price: $24,000.

Caere Corp., 100 Cooper Court, Los Gatos, CA 95030, (408) 395-7000, .



Neural OCR system

The Powervision machine vision system now includes Powervision OCR, a neural network-based optical character recognition (OCR) module. Designed for part identification and code inspection in electronics, automotive, packaging and pharmaceutical applications, Powervision OCR performs OCR on an image captured by a CCD camera. This means the system is able to read characters on a part and convert them to an ASCII string when it is not known which characters will appear.

Powervision OCR can identify a string of up to 45 unique characters or symbols at one time. Built-in fonts include uppercase letters, numbers and symbols for the fonts OCR A, OCR B, Semi, Helvetica, Futura and Times. Using a neural network-based training process, the system is font-independent - fonts can be trained to recognize new fonts or to improve performance. Characters can be read at a rate of up to 6,000 characters per minute. Pricing starts at $12,250.

Acuity Imaging Inc., 9 Townsend West, Nashua, NH 03063, (603) 598-8400, , e-mail: [email protected]