Litera has announced the acquisition of Kira Systems (“Kira”), a developer of machine learning contract review and analysis software. This follows the recent purchase of Australia’s DocsCorp and its suite of software and services for document professionals who use enterprise content management systems.

Newgen Software has announced the launch of Intelligent Document Classifier (IDC) 2.0, an upgraded version of its content classification and categorisation software.

Steps taken by the Australian Government to reinstate temporary measures that will allow companies to use technology to meet regulatory requirements to hold general meetings, distribute meeting related materials and validly execute documents are positive moves for business and the investing public, says the Law Council of Australia.

Cortical.io has announced the release of Contract Intelligence 4.5, an artificial intelligence software that automatically and accurately searches, extracts, classifies and compares key information from agreements, contracts, and other unstructured documents like policies and financial reports. Contract Intelligence uses Natural Language Understanding (NLU) to analyse relevant information from large quantities of documents quickly and with an accuracy that is difficult to achieve at scale with manual labour or with other contract analysis tools.

ScaleHub, the cloud-based managed-service crowdsourcing solution headquartered in Norderstedt, Germany, has created a new entity to target Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. The ScaleHub Executive Management team felt the time was right to officially boost the business’s global presence.

The launch of DITO Version 2.1 by iText adds the ability to create automated charts and graphs in DITO templates, have more control over conditional content in templates, and more.

Foxit has announced the launch of Foxit PDF SDK 8.0, delivering new advanced collaboration and accessibility features for developers.

Socket Mobile, Inc. has released of an updated version of the SocketScan S740 Universal Barcode Scanner able to read 1D and 2D barcodes. With version 21 upgrades, the S740 reads 1D, 2D, OCR A & B fonts, OCR USC, OCR passport, OCR MICR (E13B) fonts and DotCode, covering most travel identification documents, including passports, international IDs and micro QR codes on drivers' licenses.

CloudTrade, a provider of e-invoicing, e-order, and complex data capture services, is launching  FreightDocs, a bespoke, cloud-based, plug and play data capture solution, tailor-made for processing freight and logistics documents.

The New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE) has announced a panel of e-Invoicing access point providers for all of government to use.