SimpleIndex lets you create searchable PDF documents from scanned images using OCR to convert the pages to text and overlay it on the original scan. This creates a unique scanned document that’s fully searchable and lets you highlight and copy text, while preserving the original page formatting for readability.
Unlike other basic OCR applications, SimpleIndex also lets you automatically tag and organize documents using keywords identified with pattern matching, database lookups or bar codes. Structured data can be used to populate a database, document management system, SharePoint and other repositories.
SimpleIndex 11.4 Release Notes
Friday, 05 September 2025
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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Take control of Sales Tax exemption forms
Monday, 14 November 2022
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
Automated Processing & 1-Click Interface
Monday, 14 November 2022
SimpleIndex® 1-click scanning and indexing is enabled with its command line interface. SimpleIndex job files can be saved and opened just like a Word document. When you open a job file, SimpleIndex begins processing a new batch automatically. Scanning, processing (OCR, barcodes, database autofill, etc) and export happen in sequence with no further input from
Command Line Arguments
Wednesday, 07 April 2021
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Command Line Interface reference. In addition to running a particular SimpleIndex Job Configuration with a command line script, other features might be required. This could be stopping dialogs from turning on, suppressing dialog boxes or passing the input or output folder to the Job. Below you
Set Job Timeout on Server Processing Job Configurations
Tuesday, 08 December 2020
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Unattended Processing reference. Certain Job Configurations when running as a service will stop in the middle of processing the batch. There won’t be an error in the Windows Event Viewer or in the SimpleIndex Processing Log that indicate what the issue. This can be fixed in many cases by setting
Process Monitor/ProcMon Instructions
Tuesday, 28 July 2020
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Processing and User Interface reference. In some cases there will be errors with SimpleIndex or issues without errors that are too general to get the information needed to fix the issue easily. When this happens a very detailed log is needed to determine what exact processes
FastImport to Disable Automatic Processing During Import
Thursday, 27 February 2020
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Fast Import Interface reference. SimpleIndex has a variety of processing functions that automatically happen behind the scenes when importing documents to improve the quality and functionality of the images and processing capabilities of the software. On some occasions these extra processing functions cause delays and conflicts or aren’t
Command Line Sample
Monday, 29 July 2019
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Command Line Interface reference. When using the Simple Software products it can be beneficial to run the software from a command line script. With this you can run other Simple Software Job configurations or Windows Batch Files (.bat) or Task Manager or other command line methods automatically. You
Is it possible to search for and retrieve documents with Windows desktop search?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Searchable PDF reference. Windows Search works great with SimpleIndex because all index data can be saved to the folder and file names as well as the file properties, and OCR text can be saved to hidden layers in PDF files. Windows Search will read all of these elements
- Published in Database & Retrieval, Export, Office PDF Text Processing
How much do Simple Software products cost?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Click here for the latest pricing and online ordering information. You can also purchase full service solutions from one of our Authorized Dealers. Click here for a PDF version of the price list and a feature matrix that shows which features are included in each version. All applications are activated online by entering a serial
- Published in Licensing & Installation, LoanStacker, SimpleCoversheet, SimpleExport, SimpleQB, SimpleSend, SimpleView
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?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Full-Page OCR reference. SimpleIndex version 7 solves this problem with the incorporation of the FineReader OCR engine. Full text in PDFs will now flow with the formatting of the PDF. Legacy Versions: SimpleIndex can also be used with other OCR applications and servers to improve accuracy, formatting and
- Published in OCR
How do you train the OCR engine for better accuracy?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Training has been removed with version 7 due to the addition of the ABBYY FineReader OCR engine.
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How do you configure full text searching in Retrieval mode?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Please refer to the Wiki Documentation for the complete Database Settings reference. On the Database tab there dropdown in the lower portion of the panel for Full Text OCR Field. Put the name of the field that will store the full-text data there. This must be configured both for Insert and Retrieval mode configurations. The database field
- Published in Database & Retrieval, OCR
How can I improve recognition rates for my OCR fields?
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
There are several things you can do to improve accuracy for OCR. Scan at 300dpi, black & white for best results. Adjust the scan settings to remove background noise and improve the definition of characters. For Zone OCR, field recognition can often vary based on the surrounding white space and text in the zone. Try
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