excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 98% The maturation of recognition technology How ... Summary: How OCR evolved and how the Web is changing source documentation. Some areas of OCR are more mature than others. Machine-print OCR on clean documents is fairly mature. OCR increases productivity and automates office processes. The Web and intranet are slowly changing the source of documents. 93% The Buzz 1-1-97 Summary: Nice Guy. By Bruce Hoard This month--The All-Good News Department. Looking for a comprehensive report on what's going on in the imaging, workflow document management and text retrieval markets? Nice idea, Mark Ruport. Another good, but belated idea. 92% Caere Summary: Caere Corporation is the world leader in optical character recognition (OCR) technology and a leading developer of desktop forms processing and document management products. 92% large-format capture Color brightens the sca... Summary: CalComp 800-932-1212 www.calcomp.SGI-scanners. Feeder scanners offer a maximum resolution up to 400 dpi. It is suitable for use in high volume production environments. 91% Handwriting recognition gets real Summary: Handwriting recognition gets real. These enable ICR integrators to cope with the idiosyncrasies of industry-specific forms. What's new? What about handwriting recognition? The new company was formed to concentrate solely on recognizing natural handwriting. 91% First stop One of the first stops has to be Fi... Summary: First stop. One of the first stops has to be FileNet. Another interesting stop has to be IBM--how many of them will be meeting for the first time at AIIM this year? Linda Kempster, Storage media specialist, IIT Research Institute, Lanham, MD. Linda Kempster, Storage media specialist, IIT Research Institute, Lanham, MD 90% An essential ingredient: Post recognition processing Summary: Assuming an equal distribution of unrecognized characters in all fields, a field level accuracy rate can be calculated by taking the character level accuracy rate to the power of the number of characters in a particular field. Character level accuracy rates may be above 80% and field level accuracy rates can still be as low as only 20%. Post recognition processing is essential to ensure the... 89% The Buzz 3-3-97 Summary: 1 Buzz in which we questioned her scanner industry forecast numbers. A proper analyst would just throw the dart and stand behind it." There is a new generation of document management vendors coming out with Web-based products. One of them is IntraNet Solutions (Eden Prairie, MN). Just wondering. 89% Forms processing A market takes shape As the... Summary: In fact, the paper forms industry now refers to itself as the forms and systems industry. The forms automation marketplace. Pricing: the new differentiator. There is also an annual maintenance fee of 15% of system cost. Prices vary. 89% Approaching automated data capture Summary: Approaching automated data capture. What's so hard about automated data capture?. Automated data capture attempts to replace data entry operators. 2. A robust scanning module that supports the production-level scanners needed for most automated data capture applications. And remember, it's still data entry. 89% 40 companies to watch in 1997 Summary: They are: R.E. Ray Edwards, Apex D.E. Dan Elam, IMERGE B. T.S. Robert Smallwood, Image Associates S. 89% The product beat Summary: Imaging World, June 1st, 1996. The product beat. No manual intervention or rewriting of code is necessary. ScreenScan Systems released Image Processor Version 2.3 software and Image Handler Software Version 2.3. The new software expands the current capabilities of ScreenScan as an add-on microfilm or microfiche scanner to include full electronic folder support. Symbus Technology announced... 88% Maturing market clarifies document capture choi Summary: "We saw that there were a lot of places to get equipment, and lots of companies that wanted the technology, but most system integrators and VARs were doing enterprise systems," he says. "But there weren't that many people in between, doing departmental systems." Where Cornerstone comes in, she says, is when the user wants to do unique things with its systems. The veteran of the three, the company... 88% When forms processing pays Summary: Forms processing pays for itself when there is a good "fit-to-function." Forms processing pays for itself when there is a good "fit-to-function." Forms processing pays when it is easy to fix errors. Full-context editing displays images of forms side by side with questionable data highlighted on the screen. This allows operators to view and edit questionable characters in the full context of... 88% JBIG: A New FAX Standard? Summary: Group IV, however, proved very popular for the storage of scanned document images. They have Group IV for binary and JPEG for multibit grayscale or color." "Thus the JBIG Alliance promotes three-bit scanning as the grayscale standard for document images. There are no image-processing libraries that you can buy today that work on grayscale images. There are no OCR engines that you can buy today... 88% Caere MSeries II Production OCR on NT Server Summary: Production OCR on NT Server. The roots of high-performance OCR servers go back to the original Palantir Corp.' The M/Series II Board serves the needs of a large, stable market. NT Server OCR software. WordScan is a proven solution. 88% Vendors fine-tuning established solutions at I Summary: established solutions at. IMAGINGEXPO'96. Solutions that work, new products that soar. A selection of offerings from the floor of ImagingExpo'96. Welcome to ImagingExpo'96, where providers continue to polish their solutions. 88% Pre-processing forms is essential Summary: Pre-processing forms is essential. Sequoia Data specializes in software solutions for pre-processing images in order to make automated forms processing practical. One of the most significant hindrances to OCR accuracy is skew. Pre-processing is an essential ingredient of successful forms processing. Sequoia Data specializes in image enhancement and forms processing technologies. 88% The changing roles of paper in business commun... Summary: The changing roles of paper in business communications. Growth in paper shipments is expected to slow to 1% to 2% annually. Continuous forms are expected to continue their long decline in shipments and in revenues. Over the forecast period, the use of paper will continue to increase, but the roles of paper in business communications will change dramatically (See the figure "Paper for new... 87% Lucent debuts image, forms products Summary: Imaging World, September 25th, 1996. Lucent debuts image, forms products. For starters, Lucent is bringing to market automated data entry products that rival those of its better-established competition. Lucent's second product introduction, the Table Reader System (TRS), was used, predivestiture, for data entry and data capture of tabular data. Named LCAR, it can be incorporated by integrators as...
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