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Image Capture- Capture is the most basic building block of any imaging application. It is the process of converting hard copy paper documents to an electronic format. Typically this is done through the use of a scanner, which outputs a TIFF Group 4, JPEG, or a PDF formatted images. Recognition technology such as OCR (optical character recognition), ICR (intelligent character recognition), and IDR (intelligent document recognition) can be applied to automatically transform the static words or numbers appearing on images into data usable in other electronic applications. Following are some elements of capture:
Enterprise Capture is an emerging term in the ECM/document imaging market. Read how industry analyst Harvey Spencer defines it.
Interested in learning more about IDR, click here.
Distributed Capture is currently one of the hottest trends in document imaging. Traditionally, scnaning has been a centalized, back-office operation - meaning all documents were typically captured at one location. The adoption of Internet technology, however, has made capturing images at branch offices and sending them digitally to a centalized server a realistic, and sometimes more cost-effective and efficient approach.
DIR Editor Ralph Gammon has authored a white paper on Web-based distributed capture.
Click here for a link to a white paper that covers distributed capture: http://www.datacap.com/news/headlines/archives/dcapture/
Here's a story on leading remittance processing software vendor J&B Software making the transition to full-page document capture.
Case Studies
Burke's Production Manager Ellen Giver calculates that ReadSoft's product saves Burke 40-50% of their data entry costs. Burke has decreased its data entry staff, and those who remain find their job more interesting. Click here to read the full success story of how this market research firm realized a savings of 40-50% with ReadSoft image capture technology.
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Cincinnati Insurance Company Reduces Claims Processing Costs with Captiva’s eInput
Cincinnati Insurance Company (CIC) created an innovative distributed capture solution by implementing eInput by Captiva Software Corporation, along with a content management system from EMC. Cincinnati Insurance Company estimates the ability to electronically gather and submit electronic claim information will result in savings of more than $5 million annually. You can read the complete case study here: http://www.captivasoftware.com/products/casestudies/casestudies_view.asp?wcs_id=77. |
