Open Text has launched Capture Center version 4.0 (formerly Captaris DOKuStar Capture Suite), promising next-generation document classification and data capture capabilities and deeper integration with the Open Text ECM Suite.

“With paper documents still making up a large share of an organisation’s data, having an automated capture system is key to optimising business processes and lowering costs,” said Johannes Schacht, Product Manager, Document Capture Technologies at Open Text.

“By making Capture Center part of the ECM Suite, we are delivering the industry’s first and only complete transactional content management (TCM) offering. This translates into faster deployment, more functionality and greater return on investment for our customers.”

Document classification, data capture and data recognition technologies are used anywhere documents – including purchase orders, insurance claims and vendor invoices, among many others -- need to be routed and information from paper documents extracted. With Capture Center 4, automation starts at the point of entry for incoming documents: in the mailroom. This means information in documents gets to intended destinations almost immediately, compared to slow sorting and delivery of documents followed by error-prone manual keying of information into systems.

Open Text delivers fully integrated transactional content management functionality, starting from initial document capture through to robust business process automation and retention functions, all part of the Open Text ECM Suite. By integrating with ERP software a business process can span all applications necessary to complete transactions.

Capture Center 4 includes numerous recognition modules accessible through a client. It provides classification technology that complements the text-based classification approach used by Enterprise Library Services in the Open Text ECM Suite.

Capture capabilities provided by Capture Center include machine and hand print recognition with voting character recognition engines, optical character recognition (OCR), intelligent character recognition (ICR), intelligent document recognition (IDR), magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) and other special font recognition, rule based and learning document classification, adaptive recognition, free form data extraction as well as others.

Guided manual data entry is supported by patented Single Click Entry technology.