• FormsPro operates in a client/server, Ethernet/TCP/IP environment, using scalable servers for conventional data (RDBMS), image files (NFS), recognition, and keying terminal control.
• Kodak, Bell & Howell and a number of other scanners are supported, with PC's or  network terminals used for keying using the Simple Imaging Extension (SIE.).
• FormsPro is a robust Object Oriented data entry application that conforms to the POSIX standard, as well as a sophisticated OCR/ICR platform. It improves results, often dramatically, even when OCR/ICR cannot be utilized due the nature of the documents.
• FormsPro uses workstations and the Microsoft NT, 9X or UNIX (Sun Solaris 8.0) operating system in a client server architecture for all desktops consistent with open systems strategies as illustrated below. This is important to avoiding premature obsolescence because, regardless of the platform that is used for production, most high performance systems also use this approach for production hardware. The FormsPro network protocols, Ethernet and TCP/IP, are consistent with the open telecommunications standards.
• The desktop hardware for the system will be supplied as workstations or PC's or network terminals.
• All of the applications requiring interfaces for the FormsPro have been developed using User Interface standards consistent with open systems practices. This allows PC's or inexpensive workstations to be used instead of workstations for keying workstations. This reduces the cost of the current and also of expanding the system in the future.
• The ergonomics of the keying workstations have been carefully designed and developed for the FormsPro product. They allow a keying operator to "key what they see" with minimum physical strain and maximum productivity and accuracy. In all cases, care has been taken to ensure that almost all keystrokes contain data rather than cursor positioning information. Snippet keying also reduces the amount of image data that must be moved on the LAN for exception processing and increases system throughput compared to keying all exception from full page images or referring to the form for exceptions as required by many image based systems.
• The architecture of the FormsPro system creates a structure in which multiple vendors' classifiers can be combined in a single Recognition Workstation. The application software breaks the image up routes the different parts of the image to the best classifiers to process the field or group of fields. This means that as the rapidly evolving market for image based classifiers changes, clients will be able to incorporate the improvements into the system. In this way the life of the system will be extended.
• It makes use of relational databases (such as Oracle or Informix), for process control and data storage

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