Palantir Technologies has signed a multi-year enterprise agreement for its Foundry Platform with Rio Tinto, one of the world’s leading mining and metals corporations.

Managed technology service provider, EFEX, has announced the acquisition of The BMS Group (BMS) in the lllawarra region of New South Wales.

Box, Inc.  has entered into a an agreement to acquire SignRequest, a cloud-based electronic signature company. Box also previewed Box Sign, an e-signature capability that will be developed on SignRequest’s technology and natively integrated into Box.

ABBYY promises the AI smarts in the new release of FineScanner 8 will enable the app to become your personal smartphone archivist. FineScanner will not only scan and store your documents but now can now automatically sort all of your photos into seven different document types, help you find specific photos using the search feature, and precisely measure your documents’ size using augmented reality.

Plustek Technology has announced the availability of the SmartOffice PS3180U document scanner. This 80 page per minute scanner features a duty cycle of 8,000 pages per day, 100 sheet automatic feeder and can scan both sides of business documents in less than one second.

Quadient has announced the general availability of Quadient Impress version 1.2, an upgrade of the multichannel outbound document management platform that automates the customer communication workflow for small and medium businesses (SMBs).

callas software, a provider of automated PDF quality assurance and archiving solutions, has added eight free tools to the desktop versions of its products pdfaPilot and pdfToolbox. These tools provide users with detailed insights into PDF files, including their internal structure, the fonts and metadata used, and any DPart or tagging structures in place.

Lexalytics has launchedy a patent-pending error correction tool for text data from optical character recognition (OCR) systems.

callas software, a provider of automated PDF quality assurance and archiving solutions, has released callas pdfDPartner, an Adobe Acrobat plugin used to view DPart metadata in PDF documents.

iText has been named as one of the 8 technology partners recommended by GovTech (Singapore) for a National Digital Identity (NDI) initiative.