A platform to automate vote counting for Australian federal elections using document scanning and Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) could be implemented for around $A25 million and deliver results in 8 hours, according to industry experts. Its deployment could prevent situations such as the looming recall of nearly 1.5 million voters in Western Australia (WA) after a small number of ballot papers from four booths in that state went missing.
Parascript has launched FormXtra and FormXtra Capture 5.4 with new features for classifying forms and documents and recognising machine print, handprint and cursive writing.
Fujitsu Australia has announced availability of its latest range of high-speed A4 image scanners, the fi-7180 ($A2599, $NZ2999) and fi-7280 ($A3199, $NZ3499) to automate the task of digitising business data.
ABBYY has launched FineReader Engine 11, the newest edition of its optical character recognition (OCR) software development kit (SDK) used by many global OCR vendors.
Bayside City Council has implemented an EzeScan production batch scanning solution to assist with its long term migration towards electronic document and records management for over 500 users.
HP has announced a new tool for scanning large-format color documents at architects, engineers, construction (AEC) and geographic information system (GIS) firms, the Designjet T2500 eMultifunction Printer (eMFP).
Epson has announced a new high-speed, compact scanner with one-touch scan-to-cloud capabilities and efficient document routing by scanning directly to email, FTP sites or any computer folder via a network.
