Document & Records Management
Geoscience Australia has spent over 12 years implementing EDRMS and has come a long way since installing its first version of TRIM in 2001. As Australia's national agency for geoscience research and geospatial information, Geoscience Australia plays a key role in assisting mining and oil & gas exploration in Australia and improving Australia's ability to deal with natural disasters. Some of the Agency’s recent activity includes developing flood maps to analyse how to prevent future disasters such as the Brisbane Floods of 2012, and analysing the devastating impact of Cyclone Yasi.
ABBYY has launched FineReader Pro for Mac, a professional OCR (Optical Character Recognition) application for efficient document scanning and conversion on the Mac platform.
Colligo's Briefcase 3.6 update adds the ability for mobile workers to annotate PDFs and edit Microsoft Office documents on their devices while offline, and then sync changes back to SharePoint.
Less than half of NSW public sector agencies have identified the digital information needed to support their high risk business processes, according to a state-wide survey on digital information management.
Global freight and logistics company Panalpina claims to be the first to achieve completely paperless flights for general air freight. Using its own 747-8 freighter planes, the freight forwarder now operates several paperless (e-freight) port-to-port services with final destination in Europe, Hong Kong and the U.S.
AVJennings, one of Australia’s leading residential property developers, has chosen RIB Software’s iTWO Collaboration Exchange, iTWOcx (formerly ProjectCentre) solution as its collaborative project delivery system.
Outback Imaging, developer of EzeScan production scanning software, has released the EzeScan Barcode Coversheet Generator Web browser application. This new product is designed to further automate the indexing and uploading of documents into EDRMS/ECM systems beyond the Records Management Unit.
A platform to automate vote counting for Australian federal elections using document scanning and Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) could be implemented for around $A25 million and deliver results in 8 hours, according to industry experts. Its deployment could prevent situations such as the looming recall of nearly 1.5 million voters in Western Australia (WA) after a small number of ballot papers from four booths in that state went missing.
The problem with standards is that there are so many to choose from, laughs Barbara Reed of Recordkeeping Innovation.
Fujitsu Australia has announced availability of its latest range of high-speed A4 image scanners, the fi-7180 ($A2599, $NZ2999) and fi-7280 ($A3199, $NZ3499) to automate the task of digitising business data.
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