The template and dictionary matching capabilities of SimpleIndex‘s OCR function can be used to extract index information from the text of existing MS Office and PDF files, or any file with an accompanying TXT file. SimpleIndex® will search the document for matches on unique patterns and value lists, then index the document with the matching data. Zone coordinates can be set to limit the search area to pre-defined regions on standard forms. The result is a fully automated indexing and renaming process for all your electronic documents!
Using existing text, SimpleIndex can index and rename hundreds of files each minute and achieve perfect accuracy. These files can then be quickly searched with SimpleIndex Retrieval, SharePoint and Google search engines, or uploaded into your company’s document/content management system or custom business applications.
Enhanced Text Parsing & PDF Support
MS Office and PDF text parsing features are now included in the Basic version of SimpleIndex, making it much more affordable to enable automatic document sorting on the desktop. Additional Office and PDF features include:
- Convert any MS Office, HTML, XML and image files to PDF before processing
- Read and write password protected PDF file
- Searchable PDF output (Image + Hidden Text)
- Interactive template builder and tester
- Easily select PDF or PDF/A output format
- Native PDF viewer and auto-repair of problematic PDFs
- Read data from PDF forms
- Populate blank PDF forms with index data
Patent ID and Title Extraction
Monday, 14 November 2022
To avoid manual data entry, pattern matching is used to automatically read the Patent ID Number and Title from any US patent application straight out of the box. This job configuration is available for free for SimpleIndex users from the link below. SimpleIndex Patents Demo Job Configuration Learn More:
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Zone OCR and Dynamic OCR
Monday, 07 November 2022
Other document scanning applications in this price range use Zone OCR to obtain index data from the page. SimpleIndex improves upon this time-tested but limited model with its Dynamic OCR feature. Let’s look at the difference between the two methods: Zone OCR Zone OCR is used to read document indexes or tags from text on
Process Monitor/ProcMon Instructions
Tuesday, 28 July 2020
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Processing and User Interface reference. In some cases there will be errors with SimpleIndex or issues without errors that are too general to get the information needed to fix the issue easily. When this happens a very detailed log is needed to determine what exact processes
Is it possible to search for and retrieve documents with Windows desktop search?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Searchable PDF reference. Windows Search works great with SimpleIndex because all index data can be saved to the folder and file names as well as the file properties, and OCR text can be saved to hidden layers in PDF files. Windows Search will read all of these elements
- Published in Database & Retrieval, Export, Office PDF Text Processing
I’m using full page OCR. The information is all appearing in the txt file but it is losing format about half way through. Data to the right is ending up at the end of the txt doc. Can this be fixed?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Full-Page OCR reference. SimpleIndex version 7 solves this problem with the incorporation of the FineReader OCR engine. Full text in PDFs will now flow with the formatting of the PDF. Legacy Versions: SimpleIndex can also be used with other OCR applications and servers to improve accuracy, formatting and
- Published in OCR
How do you configure full text searching in Retrieval mode?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Database Settings reference. On the Database tab there dropdown in the lower portion of the panel for Full Text OCR Field. Put the name of the field that will store the full-text data there. This must be configured both for Insert and Retrieval mode configurations. The database field
- Published in Database & Retrieval, OCR
Can OCR text be saved to Office, Text, HTML or other formats?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Yes. On the OCR step of the Job Settings Wizard you can select the text output format need in the “Full-page OCR file type” drop down. By default it is set to PDF, but can be changed to Text (txt), Word (docx), Rich Text (rtf), Open Office (odt), Excel (xlsx), PowerPoint (pptx), ePub Zip (epub),
- Published in Licensing & Installation, OCR
Can SimpleIndex create searchable PDF Image+Text files with hidden text?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Yes, it can. You can configure this setting in the Job Settings Wizard by going to the OCR step and checking “Enable full-page OCR”. There are many settings in the OCR step that you can used to customize the output and recognition of images. SimpleIndex has two different OCR engines (Standard and Professional) that can
- Published in Export, OCR, Office PDF Text Processing
Organize Office Documents with Text Parsing
Tuesday, 23 January 2018
This video shows the Sort My Documents sample job included with the SimpleIndex trial download. It shows how you can organize office documents automatically by parsing the file’s text for relevant metadata and keywords. You can then use those keywords to tag documents with metadata and create standardized folders and filenames. First we sort Word
MSDS Material Safety Data Sheets Indexing
Wednesday, 17 January 2018
The MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) configuration for SimpleIndex is a preconfigured solution that uses the OCR and database matching functionality of the SimpleIndex scanning and indexing software to automatically scan, name, and organize MSDS pages into your chosen database and folder structure of searchable PDF files. The MSDS configuration is an out-of-the-box solution that
SimpleInvoice Invoice Processing Solution
Wednesday, 17 January 2018
SimpleInvoice is a preconfigured solution that uses the OCR and dictionary matching functionality of the SimpleIndex scanning and indexing software to automatically capture key information from invoices needed for Accounts Payable processing. SimpleInvoice requires minimal configuration to get started, and comes with everything you need to capture most common invoice styles. Use SimpleInvoice to: Capture
PDF Text Processing Demo
Friday, 12 January 2018
This sample job demonstrates the PDF text processing capabilities of SimpleIndex by extracting the Document Number, Date, Document Type, Customer and Total from a number of documents without OCR, by processing the text layer of PDF files. Computer-generated PDF files, such as those created using PDF printer drivers, already contain digitized text. SimpleIndex reads the
