Scanning & Capture

Every industry and area of technology has its own jargon - the words, phrases, and abbreviations that are largely meaningless to outsiders but common to the people within each sector. In our industry, the difference between two terms often requires clarification: document capture, and intelligent document processing, or IDP. These terms are related, but quite different in their scope.

Formstack is seeking to boost its position in the in the data capture and forms market with the acquisition of US forms provider, Formsite. Over the past few years, Formstack has expanded its data capture capabilities to include document creation and management, electronic signature capture, and visual workflow building, enabling users to tap into powerful, end-to-end workflow automation.

A leader in the global capture market for over 40 years, Kofax has retired its brand name and will now be known as Tungsten Automation.

For any inbound or outbound warehouse logistics process, efficiency and profitability rely on moving items to the correct destination in a minimal amount of time. Labels help achieve this, but what if they can’t be read? In the past, manual intervention following a “no-read” was inevitable. However, optical character recognition (OCR) powered by artificial intelligence (AI) provides a modern, automated solution.

Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) vendor AntWorks is promising to transform the way commercial insurance companies manage and process their documents with the launch of Insurants.

DDC FPO, a global provider of business process outsourcing and technology solutions for the transportation and logistics industries, has launched a new Auto-Extraction & Structuring solution.

Microsoft is adding updates to Syntex, its content understanding, processing, and compliance service, that leverages content AI and machine learning to provide an end-to-end Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) solution.

Dynamsoft has announced the release of Dynamic Web TWAIN SDK version 18.4 which places a stronger emphasis on data security.

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts printed text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. Layout is a new Textract feature that enables users to extract layout elements such as paragraphs, titles, lists, headers, footers, and more from documents.

Productsup has launched a new product offering within its P2C platform, Product Guard PX, which enables brands and manufacturers to make their product data readily available for syndication to all retailers, distributors, marketplaces, and data pools in any required format, securely and quickly.

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