Scanning & Capture

A New Approach to OCR Quality

More than a year ago we announced the European grant we had received for a development and research project to improve OCR on historical documents. The goal of this project is to use an unsupervised learning and clustering algorithm to improve OCR on a specific page.

Healthworld tackles invoices with SharePoint and Kodak Alaris

Healthworld, a leading supplier of Natural Medicines in Australia and New Zealand, began looking in 2015 for a scanning solution to scan documents and integrate with SharePoint.

Asia-Pac BPO deploys eFLOW for forms processing

Top Image Systems has delivered an eFLOW project valued at some $US100,000 for licenses and services to date to a business process outsourcing (BPO) subsidiary of a national postal service group in the Asia-Pacific.

Microform scanning at HD resolution

Crowley Company has released the Uscan+ HD, the next generation in the UScan+ line of universal microform scanners. It is claimed to have the highest resolution on the market for this scanner type with an 18 megapixel image sensor for maximum image clarity. Microform includes: microfilm; microfiche; aperture cards; photo negatives; slides and more.

ABBYY announces Laserfiche ECM partnership

ABBYY, the provider of recognition, data capture and language-based text analytics technologies, has joined the Laserfiche Professional Developer Partnership (PDP) program. Laserfiche will integrate ABBYY’s FlexiCapture recognition and data capture software with its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) products.

PSIGEN Releases PSIcapture 6.0

PSIGEN Software has released PSIcapture 6.0, a new version of the company’s flagship capture product featuring a new user interface.

Brother ups the ante with network scanning

Brother International has signalled its intention to climb further up the food chain in professional imaging workflow, with the launch of a new range of high speed network scanners.

Process improvements help BSV mission

BreastScreen Victoria has developed an automated data capture solution to improve its interactions with women seeking to obtain early detection of breast cancer, resulting in a major improvement to workflow.

Lexmark finds Chinese buyer for $US4B

A Chinese consortium led by Apex Technology, which manufactures ink cartridge chips, has agreed to acquire Lexmark for approximately US$4 billion in cash

A2iA TextReader expands language support

Text recognition developer A2iA is expanding its list of supported languages and character-types, to allow English, French, Arabic, Portuguese, German and Spanish documents to be automatically transcribed without a dictionary, regardless of whether written in machine print or cursive handwriting, and transformed into searchable and editable electronic data.

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