The product family Recogniform Reader was designed both for Data Capture and Document Capture.
The Data Capture is to acquire documents, usually forms, and to extract the fields so that the inside data can be stored in a database or can be sent to other application for proper processing. Usually in this kind of applications the images are not stored, but they are deleted after the data extraction.
The Document Capture is to acquire documents to be stored as images. The classification data required for next searches are extracted automatically from the same images.
The main difference between this two applications is in amount of data to be recognized and in the storage or less of images: the Recogniform Reader products can manage both the problems in the best way.
To define the zones to be recognized must be used an empty form as template. On this form, using the Application Designer, is allowed to positionate and to resize some boxes representing the fields to read.