US document capture specialist PSIGEN Software is making a push into the Asia-Pacific marketplace with its PSI:Capture product, with the help of newly appointed distributor UpFlow, a Brisbane-based company with Enterprise Content Management (ECM) expertise.

The two companies are aiming to develop  a distribution channel into Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Hong Kong, Thailand and India. 

“We are extremely excited to have formed this agreement with UpFlow” said, Bruce Hensley, President of  PSIGEN.  “They are a fantastic fit.  Great ECM expertise and their contact base within the APAC region will help us drive fantastic growth in 2012 and beyond.”

“UpFlow is focused on the delivery of Document Management and Workflow Automation Solutions to the Asia Pacific Region,” said Steven Chenery, Chief Executive Officer for UpFlow, “becoming the PSIGEN Distributor enables UpFlow to provide a wealth of knowledge and experience to the industry and allows us to empower businesses to achieve their ECM goals.”

One of the key applications for PSI:Capture is capture for all editions of SharePoint, one of 50+ ECM systems that the capture application supports.  Custom integration with Microsoft’s ECM platform, including SharePoint Online/Office 365, provides the ability to dynamically route to sites, libraries and folders.  In addition, the system allows the setting of content type, as well as managed metadata terms based on scanned document characteristics. 

A built-in SharePoint template can configure workflows in interactive or auto-import mode. Interactive mode gives users the power to manually process documents through capture, index, and quality assurance modules. In contrast, auto-import allows the software to scan documents from a direct connect scanner or network folder, and continue to index, file, and name folders directly to a SharePoint document library.

PSI:Capture for SharePoint 2010 features include:

• the ability to create searchable document libraries and folders to optimise performance;
• an option to automate document workflow to minimise end-user interaction;
• custom-built imaging workflows for separation, database lookups, validation, and barcode processing;
• various indexing methods such as manual input, point-and-click entry, zone OCR, barcode population, Advanced Data Extraction (ADE), custom selection lists, and more;
• distributed workflow by sharing batches between multiple workstations;
• an optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine converts scanned images to provide fully searchable PDFs;
• ability to Monitor hot folders to auto-import new data instantly;
• image processing tools including deskew, despeckle, and rotate to manage all or specified pages; and
• control column metadata when migrating to MOSS or WSS.

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