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.

To help ease the burden on small businesses, gig workers and consumers, Epson has launched the new RapidReceipt RR-600W fast, easy and smart receipt and document scanning solution.

Dynamsoft has improved the speed and recognition accuracy of its barcode reader software development kit by 20 percent for dense QR codes used in applications like document automation processes, personnel management, and ID cards.

Accusoft has announced the latest update to SmartZone, its data capture SDK for forms processing. The version 6.1 update expands the integration's language support for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) by adding 65 new languages, with a special emphasis on Central European, Cyrillic, Baltic, and Asian language groups.