Reprographix partners with eDocuMAN who are specialists in image and data capture solutions. eDocuMAN has effectively structured resources to carry out complex document scanning projects. Over the years, eDocuMAN has delivered millions of documents to IBM-Content Manager, MS SharePoint, ZyIMAGE, FileNet, Hummingbird, LiveLink, Adobe Acrobat and many other ECM applications.
In all scanning applications it has become imperative to capture data through Optical Character Recognition (OCR). eDocuMAN specializes in something more than mere OCRing - Intelligent Document Scanning (IDS). IDS is the process by which meaningful data from the documents are captured up front, which is then used to complete the scanning process and feed subsystems richer and more meaningful information faster. It involves business rules to identify the beginning and end of transactions by placing barcode separator sheets and contents of multi-page TIFF stored as XML data, thus enabling page level image search and access.
The various IDS techniques incorporated by eDocuMAN are:
Document Feeding – Mass electronic conversion through structured document preparation. Emphasis is in preparation of physical information, so as to enable document scanning on an application-by-application basis, rather than limiting commands to ‘start feed’ and ‘stop feed’.
Data Collection – Barcodes and Patch codes are used effectively to post process scanned information. The information gathered pertains to document count, page count, client specific information and other fields needed to locate images later.
OCR and XML – Every scanned image is subject to language based OCR. The extracted contents are stored as XML data providing links to every page in a document. Each page within the document is stored as a single-page TIFF.
XML4TIFF – With IDS, images are stored in the industry open standard TIFF. However, to enable web friendly access to multi-page TIFF, information is held in XML files, image by image.
Audit Trail and Report – A fully integrated software system keeps track of scanning operation, through documents, pages, indices and field values, thus enabling audit trail and reports on daily, monthly and end-of-project.
eDocuMAN has developed IPRs in:
As RICOH's Premier Plus Member, eDocuMAN has also developed custom scanning solutions for Ricoh manufactured MFPs (digital copiers). Check under IDS-4-MFP for details of customisations.
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