Indonesian government statistical bureau Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS Indonesia) has selected a Kofax enterprise capture solution to scan and process approximately 700 million documents.

The Kofax solution will be used for statistical data collection from over 460 cities each year in the world’s fourth most populous country. The value of the contract to Kofax exceeds $US1.9 million.

BPS Indonesia is the government entity responsible for providing a variety of statistics related to economic growth, social development, unemployment, population and agricultural data.

BPS Indonesia will implement Kofax Capture, Kofax VirtualReScan (VRS) Elite and Kofax Transformation Modules (KTM) to scan and capture data from surveys, census forms and other statistics related documents and then export the images and data to an SAP system to be used as a repository and for access by its employees.

The Kofax software will enable BPS Indonesia to significantly reduce manual, labour-intensive processes, therefore improving the accuracy of its statistical reporting and making vital information more readily available.

“Kofax solutions provide governments with visibility into critical statistics, thereby improving the quality of information used to make decisions and enact change,” said Alan Kerr, Executive Vice President of Field Operations at Kofax.

“Reduced costs and errors, coupled with faster, more informed decision making allows governments to better serve their constituents and quickly realize a measurable ROI.”