All Recogniform Reader versions (Desktop, Workgroup and SDK) include Application Designer, the powerful tool that allows to develop recognition templates. 

A template is the set of rules and instructions to capture information from a specific document, or from a class of documents.

The video is a brief overview taken from Recogniform Appliction Designer Tutorial, available in the Tutorial section.

Within the Designer you can develop templates definining any kind of rule, according to the documents you wish to process, using a zonal, or a FREE-FORM approach. Also, you can conditionally enable image pre-processing features, specify cross validation rules, configure information output format, and documents storage instructions. Thanks to Recogniform Application Designer visual interface, even customers with no programming skills can create a template: just map the fields to recognize, set the capture rules, and define output format. 

For advanced processing, a powerful scripting engine is available, in order to deeply customize the software behavior.

From simple structured surveys to complex free-form contracts or invoices, Recogniform Application Designer will be your perfect ally to extract the data of interest in the most reliable way.

Software development is a creative job. And requires creative tools.