Scanning & Capture

Speeding up NDIS claims processing with intelligent automation

As the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) continues to grow and mature, transforming the lives of more than half a million Australians, intelligent automation is shaping up as an important tool in easing the growing administrative burden. The NDIS assists Australians living with a disability to identify the support they need to achieve goals in many aspects of their lives.

Three ways to improve your document digitisation and scanning operation

Document digitisation doesn’t need to be a time-consuming and tedious task, says Scott Maurer, President OPEX International. Next generation solutions from OPEX are creating new opportunities for businesses to achieve more in less time.

Smart Engines registers US patent for document recognition system

Scientists of AI-company Smart Engines have patented a system of efficient localization and identification of documents in images in the U.S. on February 7, 2023.

AI Beyond the Hype

​Lately we notice a strong proliferation of diverse classification and extraction technology providers that base their service offering solely on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Based on various AI algorithms their claim is to extract all meaningful data from documents without any human intervention.

Expert.ai enhances Natural Language platform

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.

Scan solution for PDF accessibility

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.

Parascript introduces improvements to FormXtra.AI

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.

In Sight 2800 Vision System adds OCR

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 adds new Desktop Scanners

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 launches NLP for Unstructured Document Automation

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.

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