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Document numbering systems usually refer to bates stamping, where a sequential number is physically stamped on each page of a large group of files to assign a unique ID. These are most often found in legal applications. SimpleIndex can apply the bates number electronically to scanned images and PDF files. It can also assign document numbers with a variety of automatic counters that can use page numbers, bar codes, check marks and other triggers to increment the document number.

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SimpleIndex All-In-One Scanning ToolSimpleIndex is the perfect solution for small business and departments looking to manage their files from a single interface, developers who don’t want to reinvent the wheel and large companies with many locations looking to decentralize their scanning.

SimpleIndex organizes scanned images and electronic documents into a single document management database your employees can access on their desktops.

SimpleIndex takes the labor out of document imaging by providing powerful barcode recognition and OCR search algorithms that can find index values no matter where they are on the page. By providing these essential automations for a reasonable price, we make document management affordable for anyone.

The most unique automation is our OCR template and dictionary matching search algorithms. This lets you find information like date, customer name, invoice number and other information on documents with different layouts. These can even be applied to the text in Office documents and PDF files to organize these files automatically and attach them to a database.

SimpleCoversheet Barcode Indexing CoversheetsThe SimpleCoversheet barcode printing application lets anyone in your company print bar-coded coversheets with all the information needed to identify a document. This is perfect for scanning with a centralized scanner or networked digital copier. SimpleIndex can then be configured to process these documents automatically without any user intervention whatsoever!

This level of automation is provided by SimpleIndex‘s command line interface. All the settings related to scanning or searching documents can be saved to “Job Files”, which can be saved to an icon and launched with a click of the mouse or a single line of code. These jobs can be configured to scan documents, read barcodes and OCR, generate folders and filenames and upload the index information to a database in a single step.

It is simply not possible to find an easier, faster way to process your documents!

Key Features and Recent Enhancements

  • All Editions offer OCR and Barcode
    • SimpleIndex Standard has Tesseract OCR and DTK Barcode engines. These provide good recognition on clean originals.
    • SimpleIndex Professional adds FineReader OCR and Accusoft Barcode. These are able to recognize hard-to-read text and bar codes, and improve overall speed and accuracy.
    • Process existing text in PDF files and MS Office documents in all versions.
  • OCRConvert Images to Text with OCR
    • Pro version includes ABBYY® FineReader Engine for faster, more accurate OCR
    • Searchable PDF output
    • Clipboard / Screen Shot OCR
    • Point-Click OCR – Click on text to send it to an index field
    • Enhanced OCR Options – match against other indexes, skip OCR on files with existing text
    • Support for international character sets using Unicode
  • Bar Code RecognitionDocument bar code recognition
    • Multi-engine Barcode voting to boost accuracy (Professional version)
    • Support for most 2D barcodes in all versions
    • User-defined Barcode delimiter – no longer restricted to “|” for parsing multi-index barcodes
    • Pro version includes Accusoft barcode engine for better barcode recognition
    • Find/Replace characters in barcodes for matching or autofill
  • TWAIN and ISIS ScanningTWAIN and ISIS document scanning
    • TWAIN support in all versions. ISIS support available as an add-on or in Pro version.
    • Improved real-time image processing
    • Multiple scan windows when using ISIS
    • Scan directly to a network folder (processing occurs during scan)
  • Desktop Processing
    • Selectively reprocess files
    • Run multiple copies of SimpleIndex simultaneously
    • Save any image region to a separate file for signature capture, etc.
  • Server Processing
    • Run multiple jobs on different schedules
    • Run multiple copies of the same job for parallel processing and increased throughput
    • Server licenses can be purchased in 1 Million Page per Year increments as an add-on to any workstation license
    • Unlimited page barcode processing license available with Advanced Barcode Server
    • Server processing compatible with Windows 7 or above and all Windows Server versions
  • PDF HandlingMS Office and PDF text parsing software
    • Support for reading and writing password protected PDF files
    • Convert MS Office, HTML, XML and images to PDF before processing
    • Searchable PDF output
    • Native PDF Viewer – no dependence on 3rd party software
    • PDF Auto-repair – attempts correction of bad PDF files
  • Indexing
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    • Edit Fixed Fields – make changes to auto-generated indexes
  • SharePoint IntegrationDocument scanning and indexing for SharePoint
    • Compatible with all versions of SharePoint and SharePoint Online
    • Append to or replace existing files in SharePoint
    • Automatically match index fields to SharePoint columns to populate data

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SimpleIndex.com is full of information and interactive content to help you learn what you need to know to implement SimpleIndex in your organization.

  • Design Philosophy & Getting Started Guide
    An introduction to the way SimpleIndex approaches document processing
  • Bringing Document Imaging to Everyone
    How Simple Software solutions reduce the cost of entry into the Paperless Office
  • Sample Applications
    Examples of different ways you can put SimpleIndex to use
  • Compare SimpleIndex to the Competition
    Videos showing the same batch of documents being scanned and indexed with SimpleIndex as well as 4 top desktop document capture applications.
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    Detailed information on the automated scanning and indexing features of SimpleIndex
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  • How Many Clicks does it Take to Scan My Documents?
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SimpleIndex Applications in Your Industry

PDF brochures outlining some of the applications for SimpleIndex in various industries.

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  • Legal
  • Financial
  • Education

SimpleIndex Feature Highlights

Links to more information on the major features of SimpleIndex.

  • Streamlined Document Capture
    Ways that SimpleIndex helps reduce labor by streamlining the workflow and automating common indexing tasks
  • TWAIN and ISIS Scanner Driver Support
    Use any scanner with SimpleIndex
  • Zone, Full Page and Dynamic OCR
    Extract index data no matter where it appears on the page
  • Barcode Recognition
    Read barcodes from scanned images to automate indexing
  • Optical Mark Recognition (OMR)
    Read check boxes to find True/False or Yes/No values
  • Index Autofill
    Populate multiple search fields with existing data from your database
  • Electronic Imprinting
    Apply bates stamps and other image stamps/endorsements electronically
  • Database Integration
    A full range of interactive database features allow for creative integration with custom database applications
  • Document Presence Auditing
    Make sure that all required documents are present in the batch before it is released
  • Document Retrieval Options
    How to find and view files once you have indexed them with SimpleIndex
  • Command Line Processing and Custom Application Integration
    The SimpleIndex command-line interface makes it the easiest document capture application to integrate with your custom business software
  • Enable Distributed Document Capture
    Companies with many remote locations can now afford to implement Distributed Capture with SimpleIndex

The Simple Software Imaging Suite

These applications enhance and expand the functionality of SimpleIndex by providing barcode printing, automatic uploading, quality control and direct integration with popular applications like QuickBooks.

Software Catalog

  • SimpleView
  • SimpleCoversheet
  • SimpleSend
  • SimpleQB
  • SimpleExport
  • SimpleOCR
  • SimpleTunes

Top Features

The following is a list of the Top 25 major document capture features of SimpleIndex, in no particular order.

  • Indexing support for all file types
  • Viewing support for any installed, OLE-enabled application
  • No monthly page processing limitations
  • Text processing support for OCR’d images, PDF files and MS Office documents
  • Barcode Recognition
  • Dynamic & Zone OCR
  • Manual Zone OCR by indexing operator
  • Full-Page OCR to text, MS Word or HTML
  • Optical Mark Recognition (OMR)
  • Unstructured data capture using Template and Dictionary Matching
  • ODBC & OLEDB database connectivity
  • Use any database to store index data for document management and retrieval
  • Automatic population of index fields using database lookup (Autofill)
  • Document Presence Auditing – ensures all required pages are present in each batch
  • Clipboard / Screen Shot OCR
  • Command line execution
  • Input from any TWAIN or ISIS scanner or network folder
  • Media Wizard to create royalty-free, searchable document CDs or DVDs
  • Output images to TIFF, JPEG, PDF or PDF/A
  • Page Order Validation: reads the page number from each page with OCR and compare it to the scanned page order.
  • Double-Index Validation: compare the value of two fields during unattended processing and automatically route documents to exceptions when the values don’t match.
  • Automatic forwarding of a copy of the first page: from each exported file a first page is forwarded to a separate folder for data processing.
  • Integrated document separation: combines pages into multi-page documents without the need for a 2-step configuration.
  • Output index information to database or comma-delimited text file
  • Blank page detection and deletion
  • SharePoint 2010 Integration
  • Auto-Rotate
  • Easy-to-use cropping and redaction tools to remove confidential parts of images
  • Electronic imprinting and bates stamping

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KB Articles for OCR Features

  • Language Pack for Standard/Tesseract OCR
  • Languages Supported in SimpleSoftware OCR Engines
  • What is Document Imaging?
  • Change the Dictionary Separator Value
  • Change the OCR Font or Type
  • Regular Expression (RegEx) - Syntax or Type
  • Autonumber Increment Value
  • 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?
  • Is there a way to just use part of a bar code or OCR value? For example, extract "50" from the value "124450"
  • If I have a form which is filled manually by hand, can SimpleIndex read the data from it?
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How can I configure SimpleIndex to perform bates stamping or page numbering for my images?

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 by dwilder

This is all done through the electronic imprinting features, which puts the desired information electronically on the output images that are saved in your output folder. This is all done in SimpleIndex by clicking going to the File menu, selecting Job Settings Wizard and then going to the Imprinting step.

To implement bates stamping or page numbering click the ‘Enable Imprinting’ check box and also the ‘Imprint page numbers’ check box. This is the most basic method, but there are also features which allow you to manipulate what this information is, what it looks like and where on the page it will go.

The ‘Font Size’ field allows you to choose what point font you would like the imprinted value to be.

The ‘Page # Length’ lets you determine how many digits you would like the page number or bates number to be. It will add leading zeros to the page number based on the number you enter into this field. This is used to keep images with page numbers in the proper order when saving them. EX. If you put 4 into the ‘Page # Length’ field the number will read starting at 0001 and will count up from there always keeping the page number 4 digits long.

If you would like leading characters on the front of the page number you can add these to the ‘Imprint Text or Image’ field and they will appear in front of the page number. These pages will appear as (leading characters) – (page number). If you would like them to appear directly next to each other you would remove everything from the ‘Separator’ field, because this field is what is inserted between the imprint values. EX. You want the page numbers to read PMB#####. You would put PMB in the ‘Imprint Text’ field, remove everything from the ‘Imprint Separator’ field and put 5 in the ‘Page # Length’ field.

You will then decide where you want this information to appear on the image. If you want the page number on the top of the image do not check the box marked ‘Measure X,Y from bottom-right’ if you want page number on the bottom of the image check this box. Next, set up the X and Y coordinates to have the imprinted information located in the section of the image that you would like it. The X coordinate measures from top to bottom (bottom to top when ‘Measure X,Y from bottom-right’ is checked) and the Y coordinate measures from left to right (right to left when ‘Measure X,Y from bottom-right’ is checked). The unit of measurement of the X and Y coordinates are pixels. The number of pixels per page change based on the resolution or dpi (dots per inch) that the image was scanned at. So if you are scanning at 200 dpi 1 inch = 200, but at 300 dpi 1 inch = 300 and so on. EX. You have a 300 dpi, 8.5×11″ image that you want to imprint page numbers on the bottom left of the image an inch and a half from the the left and bottom of the page. You would want to have ‘Measure X,Y from bottom-right’ checked, 1950 in the ‘X coordinate’ field (6.5″ from right x 300 dpi) and 450 in the ‘Y coordinate’ field (1.5″ from bottom x 300 dpi).

Related Links

  • SimpleIndex.com – Imprinting
  • SimpleIndex Wiki – Imprinting
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