Esri has joined the Overture Maps Foundation, a collaboration founded by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom. Overture’s mission is to create reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data.

Expert.ai has debuted new features for its Natural Language (NL) platform enhancing purpose-built natural language processing (NLP) workflow support. By employing a hybrid approach that combines NL techniques – including machine learning and knowledge-based, symbolic AI – the expert.ai Platform gets the most out of unstructured data, like text in documents, applications and tools, to enable organizations create new business models, accelerate time to value and optimize processes.

UK-based digital ID verification company OCR Labs Global has announced a partnership with fyio, an app designed to navigate life and securely share the important documents that underpin it. OCR Labs Global customers include Westpac, the Australian Government, Vodafone, ZIP, BMW and ANZ.

AbleDocs has unveiled its new and improved ADScan, an automated tool that scans an organization's internal and external websites and document repositories and provides detailed analytics and monthly monitoring reports on the accessibility of all PDF documents.

Kognitos, a developer of Generative AI for Business Automation using Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT3 and ChatGPT, today announced the company has closed a seed round of funding for $US6.75 million. The funds will be used for the expansion of Kognitos's cloud-based Koncierge platform. With the addition of this seed funding, Kognitos has received $US9.35 million venture capital to date.

US company KwikTag has introduced SimplyAP for Dynamics 365 Business Central, designed as a cloud-native AP automation solution.

Parascript has released a new version of its Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) solution, FormXtra.AI 8.4. This new version adds multi-language support for content-free handwriting recognition in French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese; nested tables support for better recognition and extraction of data in complex tables; and significant improvements to full-page intelligent character recognition (ICR), trainable fields based on natural language processing (NLP) algorithms, and dynamic signature field location for unstructured documents.

OpenText has closed the previously announced acquisition of Micro Focus International. The total purchase was approximately $US5.8 billion, and OpenText states it expects Micro Focus will be on the “OpenText operating model” within 6 full quarters or sooner.

Soutron Global has announced the availability of the Soutron End User Submission tool, simplifying content submission from end users while streamlining the categorization of organizational knowledge assets.

Cognex Corporation has expanded the capabilities of its In-Sight 2800 vision system to include optical character recognition (OCR). The new ViDi EL Read tool, powered by edge learning technology, deciphers human-readable characters on reflective, low-contrast and non-flat surfaces with ease.