Innodata Isogen Project Experience

Project: iPreCode

Role: Engineer

Language: Borland C++

Third Party Components: Image En

Duration: 5 months

Description:

This was for a US based client Elsevier. The project involves image processing of hard copies of newspapers and magazines. The process involves scanning of hard copies, extracting of the text from the scanned images, converting text to xml and finally delivering the XML data to the client.

iPreCode improves the quality of scanned images by doing image enhancement operations like dot removal, line removal, de skew, cropping, erasing of un-required image portion etc. It also provides the zoning feature on the images.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the requirement and understanding the end user problem.
• Design, development and testing of the software.
• Maintenance for the live production users.

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Project: LwbkPDFOCR

Role: Software Engineer

Language: C#

Duration: 2 months

Third Party Components: Lead Tools

Description:

This project was for US based client. Project includes extracting of the text from tiff files as well as from PDF files and then converting text to XML.

LwbkPDFOCR is an on the fly OCRing application in which user draws a zone on the image and text extracted from that zone is saved in the rtf file or txt file.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the requirement and captured into SRS.
• Design, development and testing of the software.
• Maintenance for the live production users.

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Project: PsycInfo

Role: Software Engineer

Language: VC++, HTML

Duration: 4 months

Description:

It was for a UK based client. The project was about web-automation dealing with automatic downloading of pdf’s, tiffs, docs etc. It included automated applications like PsycInfo-Online, PsycInfo-Offline and PDF Download etc.

The module downloads the pdf’s from the Web Site automatically. In this, user has to press only once the start button and PDFs are downloaded to their respective paths without any manual intervention. This saves a lot of time of production people. The user can see all the processing in the user interface. Internet Explorer (COM) is being used in the user interface.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the requirement and captured into SRS.
• Design, development and testing of the software.
• Maintenance for the live production users.

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Project: Foundation Center

Role: Engineer

Language: Borland C++

Duration: 4 months

Third Party Components: Lead Tools

Description:

This was for a US based Client and deals in maintaining the tax forms i.e. the input of this project were hard copies. Requirement is to update client’s database.

Process flow was scanning of hard copies, image enhancements on scanned copies, data entry tool for filling up the required data in database and finally a PublicCharityReportGen generating the excel file.

In this project, a highlighter moves by an “Enter” key to the mandatory field. Data entry operator reads that field’s value and writes into a grid. All the validations are implemented in the application like checking of a numeric value, validations on date and validation on tax form number, which is unique for every form etc. Finally all the data is imported into the database.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the requirement and captured into SRS.
• Design, development and testing of the software.
• Maintenance for the live production users.

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