Scanning & Capture

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.

Kodak Alaris has added two new desktop scanners, the E1030 and E1040 offering a new Dual Illumination feature that eliminates shadows and other artifacts that often occur when scanning damaged originals. This further improves image quality and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) accuracy.

Parascript has integrated NLP technology that finds data by analysing context within a document. Intelligent capture has commonly been used to automate structured and semi-structured documents, but NLP can assist with automatically locating and extracting data from complex unstructured documents, even if the desired information is phrased in diverse ways.

Solution provider TEAM IM has announced the release of ABBYY Vantage Connector for M-Files.  This connector enables organizations to perform intelligent document processing of scanned documents stored electronically in the M-Files repository to better utilize their enterprise data to drive business processes and power search criteria within M-Files.

Esker, a global cloud platform and provider of AI-driven process automation solutions for finance and customer service, today announced the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 11494551 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for Esker’s Document Coding Prediction technology.

A new demo app for the Scanbot Document Scanner SDK is now available on the App Store and Play Store. The "Scanbot SDK: Document Scanning" app can be downloaded for free to test the SDK's scanning features.

Canon Australia has launched the imageFORMULA DR-S150, a compact desktop document scanner designed to deliver quick and reliable scanning with versatile connectivity options. Suitable for use by workgroups or individual users, the scanner can be easily shared between multiple PCs.

Contractor Compliance Inc., a developer of Contractor Management Software, has announced the launch of an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) module, available to enterprise clients with both assisted and automated approval workflows.

Smart Engines has announced a new generation of Smart ID Engine, its advanced identity scanner which now has a new AnyDoc mode, with more than 3, 000 ID templates recognised and significantly improved document scanning accuracy.

Kofax has announced the appointment of Australian Matthew Thomson as Senior Vice President of its Asia Pacific and Japan business. Based in Singapore, Matthew has previously held senior positions at IBM in both Australia and Singapore and, more recently, VMware Tanzu, driving growth across Southeast Asia and Korea.

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