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SPECIFICATIONS
RECOGNITA PLUS

Recognition Technology:
Feature extraction based on contour analysis. Automatic text/graph ics sepa ration. Pre-trained and trainable.

Processing Modes: Automatic andlor interactive (in teaching mode). Fonts: Font-independent. mixed fonts even within a line. Gharacters: Letters, numerals, international characters with accents and special characters. Kerned, bold, underlined characters and ligatures.

r PFS : First Choice .0, 2.O o PFS: Write Version C o Professional Write 1.0,2.0,2.1 . O&AWrite3.0 . RapidFile 1.2 . Samna World lV & lV PLUS, Versions 1.0,2.0 o Volkswriter Deluxe 2.2 o Volkswriter 3,4 . Wang PC Version 3.0 r WordPerfect4.l, 4.2, 5.0 o Wordstar 3.3, 3.31, 3.45,4.0,5.0, 5.5, 6.0 o XYWrite lll, lll Plus
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Output Text Editing: Provided in MS Windows 3.0 version.

Accuracy Rate: 99,9% on a good quality original.

Recognition Speed:
150-250 cps measured on an 4T/386 of 33 MHz.

lnput Character Set Reduction:

Provided (language subsets, numerals subset). Character size: 6-24 points. Pitch and Vertical Line Spacing: Not limited. Document Types: Reading speed:
80-120 cps (DOS) measured on 4T/386 at 33 MHz with a flatbed scanner, 2000 characters/page, 44 format.

System Requirements:
IBM XT, AT, 4T/386, AT/486, PS/2 computer or compatible with at least 640 KBytes of RAM (DOS), l MByte (MS Windows) and 3 MBytes free space on hard disk, one parallel port (which may also be used by a printer). Memory expansion/extension

All proportionally and non-proportionally spaced documents with multi-column, complex page layouts; multipage documents; financial tables; standard forms.
Colour of Accepted Documents: Accordin g to scanner specifications.
Page Orientation:

recommended.
_Display Card: IBM CGA, EGA, VGA, Hercules or any compatible card. For MS Windows environment any video board supported by MS

Windows,
Mouse:

Portrait, landscape. Document Area Definition : Page size, margins, and windowing capabilities.

Ootional (recommended) anv mcuse with a Microsoft compatible driver.

Scanner Resolution: Selectable 300 or 400 dpi. Scanner Control: Brightness, contrast and resolution (the optimum values depend on the scanner).

lnput lmage File Format:

TIFF (uncompressed, compressed CCITT G3, CCITT G4, compressed PackBits) PCX.

Output lmage File Format:

TIFF (uncompressed, compressed PackBits) PCX.

Output Character Sets:

IBM ASCII (PC8), ANSI, ROMAN-8. Greek-MEMOTEK, GreekELOT, plus 13 special sets for Hungarian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Danish, Turkish, East European languages and others. Facility for user-defined sets. (Available in the

Supported Scanners: Over 70 models are supported, more are continually being
added.

lnternational version only). Output Text Format:

. . e o . o o o . o o o o o o o o o o

ASCII (Plain, Justified, Decolumnized, Smart) Notepad (Justif ied, Decolumnized)

General Word Processor DisplayWrite(DCtuRFT)

EBCDIC

Enable

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Excel 2.1

Framework lll 1.0, GSA Navy DIF

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SZKI RECOGNITACORP.
H-101 5 Budapest, Donati u. 35-45., Hungary. Letters: H-1251 Budapest, P.O. Box 55.

AdvanceWrite Plus IBM Writing Assistant 1.0 Lotus Manuscript 2.1

Lotus 1-2-3 1A.,2.0 Microsoft Word 3-0, 3-1. 4-0, 5-0

Phone: (361 )201-8925, (361 )201 -8535 Fax: (361 | 201 7607, (3611 201 1773 Telex: 22 5381
All trademarks are acknowledged. Subject to change without prior notice @ SZKI Recognita Corp., 1 991 All rights reserved.

Microsoft WordforWindows Microsoft Rich Text Format MultiMate 3.3 MultiMate Advantage 3.6, ll 3.7
OfficeWriter 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 6.1

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SOFTWARE (OCR)? WHY CHOOSE RECOGNITA PLUS?

accuracy to read any typeface that exists in everyday business, ranging from 6 point (1/12" high) to 24 point (1 13"1. The correct and learn facility allows ligatures and strings of up to 10 characters to be corrected. lt enables unwanted characters to be removed and can learn two character ligatures. lt has the ability which enables special characters to be selected from an on-screen character set display. Pitch and line spacing on the page can vary. The page can contain proportional and monospaced text and the typeface can differ, even within a word. The program effortlessly recognizes text pages or complex layouts and can accurately separate the text and images automatically. Any portion of the page can be selected or deselected by setting margins or page length and/or any of the f reely definable boxes. By limiting the scope of recognized characters (for a given language or

. Recognita Plus

lnternational OCR There is typically 20-30% price difference between the members as the number of recognized
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languages increase.

Recognita Plus

E The English OCR, is only in English, like most of the OCR packages on the US market.

the 4 major languages spoken and written in the Americas ie. English, French, Spanish and
Portug uese.

Recognita Plus A The Americas

OCR, reads

Recognita Plus I The lnternational OCR, offers twenty-two Eu ropean languages on-screen, including Greek; in addition it can read almost any language with a latin-base alphabet, including nonEuropean ones - over 80 altogether. lt can handle multi-lingualdocuments, even with a dozen more
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word processors and spreadsheets, now including Excel 2.i, Lotus 1-2-31A,2.0 and MS Word for Windows, The output text file can be produced in 5 different character sets and can accurately represent the format of the original. -To-make the life of the user easier, the program saves the options that you choose, continuing them f rom one work session to the next.

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n ita Plus generates several ASCI I fi le formats ives high level su pport to over 30 widely used

language

DISTRIBUTION
The distribution of Recognita Plus is world-wide, in over 20 countries covering the whole of Europe, America, Australia and the Far East so wherever you are based don't hesitate to call us.

implementations:

Recognita Plus E
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After using yourfirst Recognita Plus program therewill be no turning back, we are positive that you will be amazed as to how you ever survived the computer age

without it.

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WHY CHOOSE AN OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION

THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE
numerous companies large and small, For desktop publishing practices, archiving systems and word processing applications catering for a number of requirements, Leaving the input of already printed materialto be scanned into the computer, saving time and productivity, which in any company are of extreme importance. The choice of your OCR is of great significance, not only for the money you spend, but because it may influence your attitude with this particular technology. OCR programs are constantly developing and each software package is improving. But if you are looking for an OCR program superior to the rest, that will give you an accuracy of 99.9% in any European language and has the speed to read one standard size formatted page in a minute; then we have the answer - Recog nita
Plus.
OCR software is being.used thror"rgho.ut the

world, in

capablities of it. lt can be run under MS DOS in the standard way, from a DOS batch file, but the most widespread usage is under MS Windows 3.0, utilising all advantages of the latter, No memory expansion or extra boards are required for Recognita plus to run effor,tlessly on any IBM AT, 4T/386,486 or PS/2 or any machine compatible with these. lt demands only 3 MBytes of space on the hard disk and 640 KBytes of memory running it under MS DOS. ln MS Windows environment the memory requirements are set by MS Windows.
Recognita Plus supports almost all 300 or 400 dpi flat-bed or sheet-fed scanners that are currently on the market. There are now over 70 scanners which are supported by the program, with new scanners continually being added to the list as they are available. lf the scanner has an automatic document feeder (ADF), Recognita Plus will also allow this to be used.

highly sophisticated optical character recognition package. Over 10,000 users of a multilingual society in countries of Europe. Asia, Africa, Australia and America, is a real base for continuous proof of its performance. lt is by far the most multilingual and fastest OCR on the market, offering a great number of supported languages from Greek to lcelandic. lt is the first OCR to offer recognition of the highly accented languages of Eastern Europe.
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FEATURES
Recognita Plus can read text

RECOGNITA PLUS WILL DELIVER

Auromatic recognitron of any fonr sryie. Accurate reading without any teaching. lntelligent recognition of all European languages. Automatic separation of text and images and will retain the page layout. A cost-effective OCR solution, both in DOS and Windows 3.0 envi ronment. A user-friendly program for everybody. A refined integration capability with other applications.

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SYSTEM REOUIREMENTS

bold and even

Recognita Plus was written particularly for the IBM PC environment and makes foremost use of the

ligatured (joined together). lt also has the

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