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Optical Character Recognition to read index data from scanned images, convert documents to searchable PDF or text files, dynamic field extraction and other OCR features.

 

SimpleIndex 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.

There are plenty of different Features of SimpleSoftware products making your automation process more efficient.

  • Streamlined interface – The Fastest, Most Accurate Scanning Solution
  • Support for both TWAIN and ISIS Scanning drivers standards
  • Introducing Dynamic OCR Feature and comparing it to the traditional Zone OCR
  • Unprecedented Control of Database Interactions
  • Ensures All Required Documents are Scanned Check
  • Automated Processing & 1-Click Interface to make scanning process even more efficient
  • SharePoint Document Scanning
  • Document Classification – an essential first step for processing mixed batches with many types of documents
  • MS Office & PDF Text Parsing – 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
  • Indexing Solutions with Barcode Recognition
  • Optical Mark Recognition – lets you define check box regions on scanned images.
  •  Autofill  – Automatic Indexing Using Existing Data
  • Imprint, Endorse, or Bates Stamp Images Electronically – SimpleIndex‘s Electronic Imprinting feature lets you apply the bates stamp to the images after they are scanned, saving you thousands on specialized scanning hardware.
  • Screenshot OCR – Indexing from Applications with Screen OCR

SimpleIndex Tips & Tricks – Creating PDFs from XML or JSON Data

Thursday, 29 January 2026 by Simple Software
Fill out forms or create human-readable PDFs from electronic transactions More and more transactions that used to be document-centric are now taking place electronically using XML or JSON structured data files. However, the archives for these transactions may still use document management tools. For example, Accounts Payable Invoices may be sent as data files for
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SimpleIndex Tips & Tricks – Document Separation

Tuesday, 02 December 2025 by Simple Software
OMR Document Separation Fast, accurate document separation without barcode separator sheets A unique but lesser-known feature of SimpleIndex is the ability to separate documents with Optical Mark Recognition (OMR). Many document capture applications have OMR, but few use that capability to do document separation. It offers a huge opportunity to save on document preparation costs
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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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Automatic Form Alignment

Tuesday, 07 October 2025 by Simple Software
Big improvements to OMR and Zone OCR in SimpleIndex 11.4 If you have tried to do checkbox recognition with scanned forms, you are probably aware of how sensitive they are to any minor differences in the image. This is especially the case if they are not all scanned on the same device. Any shifting or
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SimpleIndex 11 – More Than “Just an Update”

Friday, 03 October 2025 by Simple Software
We almost switched to Roman Numerals, it’s that big of a deal The most significant update in years, SimpleIndex 11 introduces major new features like handwriting recognition and email processing, while optimizing existing features to dramatically improve processing speeds for large batches and files. Some more major new features are: Get the full list of new features and fixes on the SimpleIndex Wiki.
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SimpleIndex 11.4 Release Notes

Friday, 05 September 2025 by Simple Software
SimpleIndex 11.4 new version, adds major new features like an easy option to customize what emails need to be processed from email boxes by setting dates and subfolders and automatically updating them each time these emails are processed. Additionally, ChatGPT integration was added. This allows you to extract index values and text from any document
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OCR vs. LLM: You Don’t Need AI for That!

Monday, 11 August 2025 by aaron
AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) are the hot new trend when it comes to extracting data from documents, but don’t believe the hype! Most document-based workflows don’t need it, and are much more affordable without it. Let’s face it. Document scanning, PDF processing, and data capture applications are old and boring. Optical Character Recognition
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AI and SimpleIndex

Friday, 02 May 2025 by Simple Software
When it comes to automating the document processing workflow, it is impossible to avoid the question of AI. It is very hard to do anything nowadays without some use of AI-powered tools. Recent studies have shown that at least 40% of the average workday will soon be done by AI. AI is involved with OCR
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Amazon Textract OCR and ICR

Friday, 01 March 2024 by Simple Software
What is Amazon Textract? Amazon Textract is a service that automatically detects and extracts text and data from scanned documents. It goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to also identify the contents of fields in forms and information stored in tables Benefits How Does Amazon Textract work? Amazon Textract is a machine learning (ML) service that
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Automatic Web Image Optimization

Tuesday, 30 January 2024 by Simple Software
There are a number of tools that optimize images for websites. Most of them run on your web server and optimize images after you upload them. But what if you could take images that are linked to product data in a database and automatically rename them using things like item description and SKU while you
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Move Over Cloud: Here Comes Sunshine!

Friday, 15 December 2023 by Simple Software
Sunshine Software Saves on Subscriptions Are cloud-based solutions raining on your IT budget? Are you tired of paying monthly fees for utilities that used to have a simple, one-time price? Do you long for software you can call your own? Simple Software sweeps the cloud away with Sunshine Software solutions for document and data capture.
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Handwriting Recognition Software

Thursday, 12 October 2023 by Simple Software
HANDWRITING RECOGNITION OPTIONS IN SIMPLEINDEX SimpleIndex offers one of the easiest and lowest cost solutions for handwriting recognition and forms processing available anywhere. It is capable of recognizing printed and cursive handwriting, as well as traditional forms with letter boxes or combs. Modern AI technology has dramatically improved the quality of handwriting recognition. In the past,
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Features

Monday, 14 November 2022 by Simple Software
SimpleIndex 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
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Patent ID and Title Extraction

Monday, 14 November 2022 by Simple Software
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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Take control of Sales Tax exemption forms

Monday, 14 November 2022 by Simple Software
Automatically fill and file sales tax forms Ben Franklin once noted, “…nothing is certain except death and taxes.” In the case of state sales taxes, they may be unavoidable, but managing your customers’ sales tax exemption forms and making sure you’ve sent current exemption certificates to your vendors doesn’t have to feel like a terminal
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Instant Integration With Any Application

Monday, 14 November 2022 by Simple Software
SimpleIndex® provides a great alternative to “reinventing the wheel” using a document imaging SDK to implement scanning in your custom application. SimpleIndex uses a command line interface to enable developers to execute customized scanning workflows from another application. This lets you take advantage of SimpleIndex‘s TWAIN/ISIS scanning, zone OCR, barcode recognition and database export features
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Document Classification

Monday, 14 November 2022 by Simple Software
An essential first step to processing mixed batches with many types of documents is classification. Document Classification methods quickly sort documents by type using key content and layout attributes to identify them. The most popular document classification systems are advanced AI-based machine learning algorithms that automatically learn how to classify documents based on samples and
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Zone OCR and Dynamic OCR

Monday, 07 November 2022 by Simple Software
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
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SimpleIndex 10.1 with Textract!

Monday, 16 May 2022 by aaron
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 machine learning model Handprint recognition, including unconstrained and
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Language Pack for Standard/Tesseract OCR

Monday, 01 November 2021 by Alex Stewart
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Global Settings Wizard reference. All versions of the SimpleIndex software include OCR with the Standard/Tesseract OCR engine. The SimpleIndex download only includes a limited set of languages with the installation. If the language you would like to OCR with SimpleIndex isn’t one of the languages included then you can download
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