INTRODUCTION

AmpLIB MICR OCR delivers accurate and fast Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of MICR line data from check images. AmpLIB is a complete SDK consisting of everything you need to reliably extract MICR data using its dual pass OCR voting algorithm. AmpLIB MICR OCR delivers automated image check processing Check 21 compliant 200-DPI TIFF images ready for incorporation into ICL files for exchange.

BASIC FUNCTIONS

These include loading, decompressing, compressing and saving of check images. The MICR OCR SDK will correct TIFF tags, resolution and image dimensions to conform to check image exchange requirements such as X9.100-181 (Tough TIFF) and UCD/187.. These basic functions are commonly used in application built with the ampLIB MICR OCR SDK. Common check image formats such as TIFF, JPEG and Grayscale can be imported.

IMAGE PREP Functions (Click Here for Example)

These basic image processing functions include finding (whether right side-up or not) a check within a document image, correcting skewed images, doing trapezoidal adjustment and cropping the check image and fundamental noise removal.

MICR OCR

This set of functions detects a MICR line within a check image, reads it and parses it into the proper ABA account, RT and check serial number format. Using multiple proprietary MICR OCR engines, voting and confidence ratings can be assigned to each character read, thus minimizing inaccurate reads or substitution errors.

IMAGE REPAIR GROUP (Click Here for Example)

For more challenging types of check images such as postal money orders, travelers check and treasury checks Image Repair can automatically remove patterned backgrounds and leave the data for better extraction and CAR/LAR results.  These functions are used to improve the quality of the image for more accurate MICR. Functions include speckle, streak, border, line and background removal, edge detection, dynamic threshold for color or grayscale conversion to black and white and page mode to find checks from within a larger document.

CAMERA GROUP

This licensable feature applies algorithms trained to recognize MICR fonts and characters within images captured from devices such as cell phone cameras and flatbed scanners. It employs character level recognition, multiple OCR engines and may be licensed to improve the performance of existing applications using prior versions of the ampLIB MICR OCR SDK with no code changes.

MICR VERIFY GROUP

When using an external MICR reader such as a magnetic check reader or comparing MICR OCR from another OCR engine, MICR VERIFY applies complex business rules to assure the most accurate MICR read rate. This group of features is used to verify captured MICR data and to parse it to the ABA field level separating out the R/T, ON-US, AUX ON-US and other data.

ADVANCED FUNCTION CALL LIBRARY (Click Here for Example)

This group provides two highly-integrated calls (AmpReadMicrCamera & AmpReadCamera). These calls combine many of the processes described above to extract MICR data & create exchange-compliant images to acheive the highest read rates, lowest substitution rates and best possible throughput with a minimum coding effort. Specially trained MICR fonts are included with this function.

OCR A/B (Click Here for Example)

When scanned checks are part of a larger remittance document, recognition of OCR A/B fonts may be employed to extract information such as the customer's account number in order to apply credit to the proper account.