Scanning & Capture

State Library of NSW upgrades microfilm scanners

DatacomIT has recently completed an upgrade of 10 microfilm scanners to the latest STViewScan III at the State Library of NSW public access area, to enable patrons to view, print and scan to USB, records and information found on the vast collection of microfilm and microfiche from within the library.

Five common misconceptions about intelligent capture

​1. The goal is pass through automation. The goal for 90% of situations is improved human productivity – NOT pass through automation. Other than very structured forms where under ten data relatively simple (numeric, machine printed for example) fields need to be extracted, typically 80+% of extracted forms will need some human validation or correction.

Canon devices tackle heavy duty digitisation

Canon Australia is launching four new colour A3 multifunctional devices, the imageRUNNER ADVANCE C5500i Series, which will be available from August 1 offering intelligent document workflows and addressing the total cost of print across an organisation. 

OCR kit for notes scribbled on your mobile

A2iA  as announced the availability of a2ia mNote a new software toolkit that turns cursive handwritten notes into searchable, digital text by simply taking a photo of the paper document with a smartphone or tablet.

ABBYY announces Receipt Capture SDK

ABBYY, a leading provider of technologies and solutions to action information, has launched its Receipt Capture SDK that enables software developers to integrate automatic receipt capture and extract data from receipts to support a variety of customer loyalty and incentive programs.

ibml Announces SoftTrac Capture Suite 4.0

ibml says a new release of its SoftTrac Capture Suite software provides more tools to intelligently capture and process information from any input source, resulting in faster delivery of content to downstream systems and processes, fewer downstream errors, and more secure, compliant capture operations.

OCR app for the visually impaired

ABBYY has partnered with Japan's Amedia to create the Amedia Live Reader application -- a mobile optical character reader for the visually impaired.

Robotic A2 scanning at National Library of Australia

A fully-automatic A2 book scanner from Austria’s Qidenus Technologies has found a home in Australia at the National Library in Canberra, supplied by Digital Scanning & Microfilm Equipment (DS&ME) in conjunction with reseller Micrographic Engineering Services (MES). 

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.

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