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. 92% 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. 90% 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. 90% 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. 89% 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% 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% 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% 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. 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% 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. 87% 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 87% 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. 86% 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... 86% ElectroCom Imaging: The Big Secret Summary: At this time ECI offers two major product lines: AEG Recognition, a world-renowned family of integrated ICR/OCR engines, and the IntelliScan 120/240 family of high-performance document scanners. The AEG Recognition offers commercially the underlying technology that automatically reads the myriad pieces of US mail at very high speed. If the mail is readable, the machines apply ICR/OCR to it. A... 86% 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. 86% 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. 85% Altavista for intranets of all shapes and size... Summary: uncovers companies' publishing assets. emphasizes "wisdom management". "There are two different markets for that technology, which are publishing and enterprise searching." "On the applications side, Verity has four categories," Arnett says. "The same words may have totally different meanings in different documents. 85% 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... 85% Hot Products 11-18-96 Summary: . Harmonious disc. However, creation must be accomplished working on a Unix or Windows workstation. CDs caught in the Crossfire. More, better, faster removable storage. serious scanning. 85% 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.
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