ABBYY has launched the next evolution of its dynamic data and document capture solution, FlexiCapture 9.0.

It promises the ability to provide high performance extraction of data from documents across a range of deployments, from departmental to enterprise and government scale.

“We designed FlexiCapture with the objective of building a single platform capable of serving multiple types of deployments and integration,” said Aram Pakhchanian, Director of Data Capture Products Department at ABBYY.

“As a result, the product can be smoothly adapted for various requirements — adding functions for specific needs, or migrating from a simple desktop-based solution to a distributed system as the workload grows. This brings data capture functionality to a broad variety of vertical markets and gives both customers and integrators the flexibility to make adjustments in accordance with ever-changing conditions.”

ABBYY FlexiCapture 9.0 provides the ability to process any type of document simultaneously in one stream — including machine-readable forms, semi-structured and unstructured documents such as invoices, contracts or letters. It automatically extracts data and text from documents for input into backend systems and databases and offers capacity for document classification, indexing, data capture, and document conversion.

Intelligent routing supports more processes for different document types at the same time. For example, while one type of document is recognised and exported in fully automated, unattended mode, other types (including documents with questionable quality) can be separated from the main document stream to be routed for verification by qualified operators.

FlexiCapture 9.0 includes ABBYY FlexiLayout Studio, a tool used for specifying processing parameters for semi-structured and unstructured documents. The latest version provides the ability to create several alternative FlexiLayouts for the same document type, simplifying the processing of documents with extremely variable location of data fields (e.g. invoices).

ABBYY FormDesigner, a tool to aid in creation of machine readable forms, now provides the ability to create electronic forms in PDF format. This expands FlexiCapture’s ability to cover hybrid projects, with both paper and electronic forms.