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AWS Textract as a recognition engine inside SimpleIndex, including handwriting and form data.

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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
ABBYY FineReaderAmazon TextractAutomatic Indexing SoftwareFill & Read PDF FormsHandprint RecognitionHandwriting RecognitionICRmultiple zonesOCR (Optical Character Recognition)OCR Form ProcessingPDF Form FillerRecognize Cursive HandwritingZone OCR
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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.
1-Click ProcessingABBYY FineReaderAI Document AnalysisAmazon TextractBar Code ScanningCloud OCRCommand-LineDatabaseDocument AutomationDocument Capture SolutionDocument ImagingDocument Management Software (Personal Document Management)Hybrid OCRImprinting & WatermarkingIntelligent Document ProcessingLLM OCRMS OfficeOCR (Optical Character Recognition)Office PDF Text Processingoffline OCRon-prem OCRon-site OCROne-time payment OCRPDF BookmarkingPrivate AIRPA (Robotic Process Automation)Scanning SoftwareSelf-hosted OCRSubscription free OCRSunshine OCR (Sunshine Software)TWAIN & ISIS Scanning
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SimpleIndex 11.3 Release Notes

Tuesday, 10 September 2024 by Simple Software
SimpleIndex 11.3 new version adds major new features like a revamped HTML and Office to PDF conversion option that is much faster, more robust, and handles complex document formatting. Another new feature is a new Table field type that is able to capture table and spreadsheet data from documents. New Features Bug Fixes
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Amazon Textract OCR and ICR

Friday, 01 March 2024 by Simple Software
Amazon Textract, without code
AI Document AnalysisAmazon TextractAzure Document IntelligenceCloud OCRGoogle Document AIHandprint RecognitionHandwriting RecognitionHybrid OCRICRLLM OCROCR (Optical Character Recognition)Recognize Cursive Handwriting
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On-Premise OCR

Friday, 15 December 2023 by Simple Software
On-premise OCR, cloud when it pays.
Amazon TextractCloud OCRHandprint RecognitionHandwriting RecognitionHybrid OCRICRLocal LLMOCR (Optical Character Recognition)offline OCRon-prem OCRon-site OCROne-time payment OCRPerpetual LicensePrivate AIRecognize Cursive HandwritingScanning SoftwareSelf-hosted OCRSubscription free OCRSunshine OCR (Sunshine Software)
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SimpleIndex 11.2 Release Notes

Friday, 15 December 2023 by Simple Software
Upgraded versions of OCR components improve recognition accuracy and language support. Optimized import and processing functions significantly reduce processing time. Automatic text redaction secures sensitive data. All of this and more is available in the SimpleIndex 11.2 release! New Features Bug Fixes
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Handwriting Recognition Software

Thursday, 12 October 2023 by Simple Software
Read the fields people filled in by hand
ABBYY FineReaderAmazon TextractCloud Storage Scanning & MigrationHandprint RecognitionHandwriting RecognitionICROCR (Optical Character Recognition)Recognize Cursive HandwritingScanning Software
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SimpleIndex 10.1 with Textract!

Monday, 16 May 2022 by aaron
Current details: Amazon Textract in SimpleIndex 12 → SimpleIndex 10.1 is now available, and it adds a huge new feature — Amazon Textract! The Cloud OCR License adds the Amazon AWS Textract Cloud OCR engine to SimpleIndex, unlocking a bunch of great new capabilities: The highest OCR accuracy of any available engine, using Amazon’s massive
Amazon TextractAutomatic Data CaptureAutomatic Indexing SoftwareFill & Read PDF FormsInvoice OCRInvoice Scanning SoftwareMetadataOCR (Optical Character Recognition)OCR Form ProcessingPDF Data Extraction SoftwareRecords Management
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If I have a form which is filled manually by hand, can SimpleIndex read the data from it?

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 by dwilder
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Handprint Recognition reference. SimpleIndex offers two kinds of ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition) for converting printed and script handwriting to text. The Cloud OCR feature enables the Amazon AWS Textract OCR engine, that has the ability to read unconstrained print and scripted handwriting with surprisingly good accuracy. The FineReader OCR engine offers handprint recognition designed for forms processing. it
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