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  • Limitations of using OCR for file classification

    OCR is often used to obtain text from image-only files for use in classifying them. However, there are several limitations of OCR that can result in inaccurate or missing text which makes text-based classification difficult or impossible:

  • The chess pieces are moving in the ECM world

    Does OpenText’s $US1.62B acquisition of Dell EMC's enterprise content division, including Documentum, represent a defining point in the middlegame for enterprise content management (ECM) or the beginning of the endgame? Analysts and competitors have been vocal in their widely varying interpretations.

  • The self-fulfilling prophecy of intelligent automation

    Today’s need for automation is real and is not going away. It is undeniable that the intelligent automation market is going through a rapid democratisation process and societies we live in are somehow more inclined to coexist with virtual cognitive workers. The end-goal of automation is not anymore perceived as a Kafkaesque nightmare of unpredictable and uncompromising robots!

  • RACGP calls for paper and fax ban

    The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has released a position paper calling for all healthcare services and government agencies that communicate patient information with general practices to eliminate paper forms and faxes within the next three years and to replace then with highly secure digital communications.

  • Legal-IT disconnect threatens Data Breach compliance

    News of data breach occurrences appear on an almost daily basis, frequently involving embarrassing leaks of credit card data, email addresses, names, phone numbers, physical addresses, and financial transactions. The consequences can result in significant fines, reputational damage, legal claims and expense and even imprisonment.

  • Victorian Shire Council maps a way to paperless savings

    Once upon a time, a Shire not too far from Melbourne analysed its paper usage and was horrified to find that if each sheet of paper it used was placed end to end it would be the equivalent to the travelling the distance between Melbourne and Sydney (the scenic route) and a little bit more.

  • Search and Content Analytics market set to surge: analyst

    Analyst firm Technavio forecasts the global search and content analytics market to reach $US6 billion during 2016-2020, according to its latest report, with a growth rate of almost 25% driven by the growing importance of deriving useful information from unstructured data.

  • Kira Systems releases Quick Study 2.0 for contracts

    Kira Systems, the machine learning contract analysis software provider, has announced Kira Quick Study 2.0, a major upgrade to its proprietary technology that identifies clauses and other metadata from contracts and related documents.