ABBYY FlexiCapture - Readme

About the Program

ABBYY FlexiCapture belongs to the new generation of ABBYY’s data capture solutions. It provides efficient and accurate extraction of data from forms and documents for subsequent export into databases and business systems.

FlexiCapture has two different installation types:

The type of installation should be selected during the installation of the product. For each type of installation a different serial number is required.

Software and hardware requirements

Hardware requirements

  1. Intel® Pentium®/Celeron®/Core™2 Duo/Quad/Xeon®/Core™ i3/Core™ i5/Core™ i7, AMD K6/Turion™/Athlon™/Duron™/Sempron™ 2 GHz processor or faster. The use of processor which has 2 or more cores is recommended for Application Server
  2. RAM
  3. Hard disk space
  4. TWAIN, WIA or ISIS scanner
  5. An active Internet connection to activate your serial number, USB port for hardware protection key
  6. At least 1024×768 video card and monitor
  7. Keyboard, mouse, or other pointing device

Software requirements

Servers:

  1. Operating system: If you use a localized interface, you operating system must support the corresponding language.
  2. Internet Information Services 7, 7.5 or 8 (for Application Server)
    The following components of IIS should be installed:
  3. .NetFramework 4.0 (4.5 if running under Windows Server 2012)
  4. Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 (Version 13, 13.0.11.1467 is recommended), Crystal Reports 2008 (Version 12), Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2008 (Version 10.5)
  5. Internet Explorer 7 or later
  6. Database server: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2, 2008 SP1, 2008R2 SP2, 2012 SP1 or 2014; Oracle 10g, 11g or 12c.

Stations

  1. Operating system: If you use a localized interface, you operating system must support the corresponding language.
    The use of the Arial Unicode MS font is recommended. Other fonts may display CJK characters incorrectly.
  2. .NetFramework 3.5 SP1
  3. Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or later for Monitoring Station and ClickOnce deployment of Scanning Station
  4. SilverLight 5.1.20913 or later
    Note: Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 only supports SilverLight when running under Windows, 7 SP1 Windows 8.1 or Windows 10
    Note: Google Chrome 45 or later does not support SilverLight.
  5. One of the following browsers for Web Stations:

The servers and stations except web- and remote stations must be in the same Active Directory.

Installing the Program

Important!

To install ABBYY FlexiCapture:

  1. Place the ABBYY FlexiCapture DVD-ROM into the DVD-ROM drive.
  2. In the Autorun menu, select installation type: Standalone or Distributed and follow the instructions of the installation wizard. (If Autorun is disabled on your computer, double-click the autorun.exe file located on the DVD-ROM).

Standalone installation:

  1. Select a setup language. The installation wizard will compare the locale of your system and the selected language. If the languages are incompatible, a warning message will be displayed.
  2. Next, the installation wizard will check the version of your operating system and the availability of the administrative rights. If the version of the operating system is not supported by the program or you do not have the administrative rights, a warning message will displayed and the installation wizard will be closed.
  3. If all the checks are successfully passed, the end-user license agreement will be displayed. Read the license agreement carefully and, if you agree with the terms of the agreement, select the corresponding option and click Next.
  4. A dialog box will open, in which you will need to enter some information about yourself. Enter the required information and continue with the installation.
  5. In the next dialog box that opens, select one of the available installation modes:
  6. Next, select a destination folder. If there is not enough space on the selected hard disk, a window will be displayed showing your hard disks, the available free space, and the space required for installation. Select a disk with sufficient free space and continue with the installation.
  7. The program files will be copied onto your computer. Once the installation is finished, the installation wizard will display a message saying that the application has been successfully installed.
  8. FlexiCapture License Manager will be launched automatically so that you can activate your copy of the application. Enter your serial number and activate the application.

Distributed Installation:

The whole installation for the distributed version has two parts:

The servers installation consists of the following components:

  1. Application server + Administration and Monitoring Console (Web application);
  2. Web Stations;
  3. Licensing server;
  4. Processing server;
  5. FlexiCapture Authentication Module.

Workstations installation (client part) consists of:

  1. Project Setup Station;
  2. Scanning Station;
  3. Verification Station;
  4. Data Verification Station;
  5. Processing Station;
  6. FlexiLayout Studio;
  7. FormDesigner.

Recommended Installation Order

  1. Install all components required for installation (.NetFramework, IIS, CrystalReports, SQL Server)
  2. Install servers (The servers can be installed either on one computer or on different ones; by default they will be installed on one computer)
  3. Install workstations. During installation you will need to indicate a path to the License Server.

Each component may be installed on a separate computer. To do it, disable the rest of the components.

Note: For more details on the installation process and preliminary settings of the operation system, please refer to "System Administrator's Guide".

Note: It is not recommended to install the Processing Station on the computer where ABBYY FlexiCapture servers are installed. Such an installation is appropriate only when installing the program for demonstration purposes.

During installation of Application Server it is possible to install a special administrative image of the workstations installer. This installer supports distributed installation scenarios: by SMS or AD.

Workstations installation can be done using this image or common installation from the DVD. In the latter case the License Server location must be specified.

Remote Stations Installers

Independent installers are available for the remote stations. You can also install Scanning Station using ClickOnce Deployment technology on the Administration and Monitoring Console.

Web Stations

If Web Stations were installed with the Application Server, operators can open the stations using the following paths in browser:

If the Web Stations Authentication Module subfeature was selected when installing Web Stations, you can use a single path for login to Web-station and registration of the operators: http://<Application_Server>/FlexiCapture11/Login.

Running the Program

To run ABBYY FlexiCapture Standalone:

To run ABBYY FlexiCapture Distributed:

Demo projects

To see how ABBYY FlexiCapture works, you can use demonstration projects that can be found in %public%\ABBYY\FlexiCapture\11.0\Samples.

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