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SimpleIndex Tips & Tricks Handprint Recognition

Thursday, 30 October 2025 by Simple Software
Did you know that SimpleIndex can read handwriting? Now you do! SimpleIndex 11.4 gives you the option to read all kinds of handwriting. This can be done with both the FineReader and the AWS Textract OCR engines. FineReader works best with forms that have letter boxes or combs to ensure that they are filled out
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AI and SimpleIndex

Friday, 02 May 2025 by Simple Software
Share card: How to use OCR for most data, and your choice AI model for the rest. Local OCR reads the page; Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini reads only the fields left.
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Handwriting Recognition Software

Thursday, 12 October 2023 by Simple Software
Read the fields people filled in by hand
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Languages Supported in SimpleSoftware OCR Engines

Monday, 02 December 2019 by Simple Software
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Languages reference. SimpleSoftware OCR engines are using two different systems for language support. In the end languages supported by your OCR is based on your version of SimpleIndex installed, any addons (SimpleIndex Server, SimpleCoversheet, and so on) do not add any additional language support. All SimpleSoftware products have Tesseract 3.02
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How do you train the OCR engine for better accuracy?

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 by dwilder
Training has been removed with version 7 due to the addition of the ABBYY FineReader OCR engine.
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Can SimpleIndex create searchable PDF Image+Text files with hidden text?

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 by dwilder
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
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SimpleIndex Walkthrough

Tuesday, 23 January 2018 by Simple Software
What Is SimpleIndex? SimpleIndex is a tool to organize your documents automatically, whether they are scanned or digital. It provides the advanced OCR automation features of enterprise-class software, with an interface and workflow that is optimized for the desktop user. It can work as a standalone document manager, or a capture front-end to any app,
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How To Scan Documents

Saturday, 13 January 2018 by Simple Software
So you want to digitize your documents? We’re here to make that as simple and not terribly boring as possible! This page has both a beginner’s guide to document scanning concepts, as well as an advanced guide to automating batch document scanning processes with bar codes and OCR. The guide is written to give you
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OCR

Tuesday, 03 October 2017 by dwilder
Traditional Zone OCR vs. Dynamic OCR Videos: Zone OCR | Full Page OCR Many document scanning solutions use Zone OCR to obtain index data from the page, while SimpleIndex improves upon this time-tested but ultimately limited model with its unique Dynamic OCR feature. Let’s look at the difference between the two methods: Traditional Zone OCR Zone
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