Although the internet offers a wide-spread platform for information interchange, day-to-day work in large companies still means the processing of tens of thousands of printed documents every day. This paper presents the system smartFIX which is a document analysis and understanding system developed by the DFKI spin-off INSIDERS. It permits the processing of documents ranging from fixed format forms to unstructured letters of any format. Apart from the architecture, the main components and system characteristics, we also show some results when applying smartFIX to medical bills and prescriptions.
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