White House Official Pushes for Software as a Service

Government agencies realize the many benefits of Software as a Service. Low cost of entry, reduced customer resources, fast deployment and immediate ROI. A top official with the U.S. White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) gave her strongest endorsement yet to software as a service, saying Wednesday it can help federal agencies cut development costs.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/141455/white_house_official_pushes_for_software_as_a_service.html

January 20, 2008 | Comments (0)
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SaaS is Green!

Software applications that are architected and delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS), provides server and storage consolidation, which means reduced power consumption.

In the Electronic Document Management and Business Process Automation industry, software license or ASP vendors typically require their customers to operate the software on multiple servers, one for the database, one for the application, one for the workflow, etc. At the very least, they want their application running on it's own server so that they can "support" it. You know that if MS Exchange is running on the same server that your EDMS is running on, Exchange is causing any errors that might occur. In the SMB market, the weakest server you can buy is overkill for an EDMS. The CPU runs at about 2% and you get more storage than you know what to do with. Oh yeah, don't forget you have to back all that stuff up too. Another tape drive for the server closet...

Without doing the math, I think you can see that if a SaaS vendor can put 50 customers on one server instead of 50 servers, there is a savings in power. Plus, you have now enabled 50 companies to allow telecommuting. That could save some gasoline as long as those telecommuters aren't heading out to the beach on the days they are "working" from home. Wireless Broadband sure makes that easy!

December 13, 2007 | Comments (0)
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Document Advantage Corporation will sponsor and exhibit DocuVantage OnDemand at the AIIM Florida Chapter Showcase on Thursday, Dec. 13th, 2007, Clearwater, FL

Learn the latest technologies to Capture, Manage, Store, Preserve and Deliver Information within your Organization.

Holiday Buffet Lunch and Refreshments

Thursday, Dec. 13th, 2007
11:30 AM to 4:00 PM

Held at:
Tech Data Corporation,
5350 Tech Data Drive
Clearwater, FL 33760
Bldg D, Rm. 1

There is no fee to attend but your response is requested for planning. Please RSVP

http://www.aiim.org/chapters/chapter-events.asp?EventID=4134&Task=Register

December 5, 2007 | Comments (0)
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Document Advantage Corporation (DocuVantage), will sponsor and exhibit at the Rheinner Reseller and Integrator Executive Symposium on Document Management, 2007, in Las Vegas, NV, Sept 12-14, 2007

Document Advantage Corporation, the leading provider of on-demand document, information, and business process management services, will exhibit DocuVantage OnDemand&trade: at the Rheinner EDM VARfest 07 at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, September 12-14, 2007.

The premier document management / imaging event attended by key executives in the electronic document management industry, VARfest is the Rheinner Group's annual symposium for resellers and integrators of EDM hardware and software.

"Customers are demanding fundamental changes in the way document and business process management solutions are delivered," said Jana Wiggins, CEO of Document Advantage. "Foremost, they are demanding service accountability from their vendors and looking for provable, cost-effective results. This has forever altered the market, the products, and the decision-making users. DocuVantage OnDemand helps EDM VARs meet these requirements. The Rheinner Group's symposium is an excellent place for us to share the necessary market information and expose VARs to this revolutionary delivery method that will improve sales and accelerate profit growth."

The Rheinner Group's Reseller & Integrator Executive Symposium on EDM will feature concurrent business and technical tracks interspersed with workshops. The Document Advantage team will exhibit DocuVantage OnDemand™ throughout the event.

To learn more and to register for the event, visit www.techinfocenter.com.

About Document Advantage Corporation

Document Advantage Corporation, a leader in document, information and business process management applications, offers DocuVantage OnDemand™, a secure, integrated application delivered as a service that includes enterprise-class document capture, content search, collaboration, business process automation, remote storage, and records management. By choosing Document Advantage as their business process management provider, users across commercial, government and education sectors have improved their information processing, handling, storage, and retrieval; saving millions of dollars. Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, with a sales office in Northern California's Silicon Valley, Document Advantage is the only nationwide document and business process management provider to offer its on-demand solution as a subscription service.

For more information please visit www.docuvantage.com or call 863.326.6360, ext. 224.

August 20, 2007 | Comments (0)
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Web Design Woes - AJAX and CSS

What is new on the dev side of DocuVantage? More AJAX functionality and more use of CSS to keep the app standards-compliant.

As any web app designer that must keep up with standards knows, this can be quite challenging. You can build a web app and have it looking great in one browser, but when viewed in another browser it is completely unusable.

In the arena of AJAX the problem can be resolved by using AJAX libraries that were created by another developer that already ironed out the browser-specific issues. Although there are times we do need to create functionality from scratch, and as if on queue, these issues rear their ugly heads. When creating a site design from scratch, you get used to dealing with the CSS incompatibilities.

A lot of this could have been avoided if Microsoft could have just worked with Netscape back when XUL came out, 7 years ago (wow!). You see, AJAX is really just one big hack. Sure it's cool, but it's not pretty. The folks at Netscape saw the need for an XML-based UI language long ago and so they created XUL. Just search for XUL to find out more.

December 4, 2006 | Comments (0)
Posted by Sarel Botha

Why your Electronic Document Management System should include Redaction functionality

The Social Security numbers, driver's license information and bank account details belonging to potentially millions of current and former residents of Florida are available to anyone on the Internet because sensitive information has not been redacted from public records being posted on county Web sites. To read more, click here...

April 14, 2006 | Comments (0)
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Java, Web Development, and Glue

There are many different reasons to join the open source community such as to improve and create software that can benefit companies, and give developers more power when it comes to taking advantage of latest technologies.

One driving force in languages that is making this happen is Java. This language has many benefits such as security, being cross-platform, internationalization, fast development time, and performance. Since Java was created with security in mind, it prevents users from downloading untrusted code and running it over a network. Being that Java is cross-platform, you write your code once and it can be run anywhere no matter if you are using Windows or in a POSIX environment. One very nice feature is the support for multiple languages. Since Java uses 16-bit Unicode characters, it can take advantage of characters that aren't used in English and Western European languages. Java has an intuitive set of APIs that allows for fast development, but also has great performance considering it is an interpreted language.

When it comes to web development, Java is making strides, especially with the many J2EE frameworks floating around. One in particular is Spring(this is the glue I speak of). Spring along with Hibernate(mentioned in an earlier blog) really gives a lot flexibility and power to the developer.

Spring focuses on managing business objects and keeping everything tied together in a concise manner. It was built to help in unit testing since everything can be broken into individual parts. Spring is catching on as a recognizable framework such as Struts. One reason is its ability to eliminate the need for the use of singletons and allows for custom property file formats. Its independence from other APIs really gives it an advantage when it comes to sticking to a single MVC environment. The use of databases can be seemingly transparent when combining such technologies as Hibernate or JDO.

DocuVantage is taking part in helping grow the open source community by using and improving Spring and Hibernate. Is your company taking part in this? If not, wouldn't you much rather be involved in one that does?

December 14, 2005 | Comments (0)
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Backup Doesn't Matter -- Recovery Does

Backup can mean a lot of different things in a lot of different companies. Some companies see backup as a DVD or two put in a case. Other companies have huge servers that house everyones data and call that backup. So, what is the real purpose of backup? In the busy hour to hour market, people sometimes lose focus as to what original intentions were. With backup the most important part is recovery. To quote Ray Paquet from a recent interview: "I don't care if you can back my data up or not. I only care if you can recover it. Backup doesn't matter." You can back all your data up into DVD's or tape drives and place them in safe places, but if it takes a month to get the data back to where it needs to be there can be a major problem. In some cases it becomes cheaper and more efficient to just recreate the data manually than to spend the time mulling over the backup archives. There are a few solutions that make sense. Replicating the data can help in most solutions, but it can still be a major problem. What happens when the data on your corporate laptop gets corrupted and it gets replicated back to the server? Now your replication archive is no longer usable! A great way to ensure your data is quickly recoverable is to have a central repository of data with revision control that gets fully backed up in the usual way (DVD's, tapes, etc.). If data goes bad, it takes one reload of the data to get everyone (no matter where they work from) back up and running. Now that is a quick recovery!

October 24, 2005 | Comments (0)
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Hibernate: The Smart Approach to Java and Databases

Hibernate is an object/relational mapping solution for Java environments. It takes the pain out of communicating between Java classes and relational databases. In addition to providing a powerful and fast approach to mapping databases, it also allows for data querying. This, of course, can reduce development time, especially for the developers who care less about how to relate to a database and only concerned with retrieving the correct data from it.

Hibernate can persist most JavaBeans. What this means is there is no need for Java classes, but rather makes the use of such things as Maps of Maps, allowing you map entities to SQL expressions. This can eliminate the need for traditional table interaction, and with the use of a persistence service, business domain objects can be run without the persistence layer. This is a great methodology for extreme programmers or those who need an application complete ASAP.

Another benefit of Hibernate is its ability to access variables through get/set functions, or modify the variables directly. When accessing through functions, they can be private, packaged, or protected. This allows for your application to avoid breaking data hiding, which you should always strive for.

Through the use of XML mapping metadata, Hibernate allows you to make use of mapping GUI without the troublesome possibility of slower performance through standard GUI tools. In addition, XDoclet and JDK 5.0 annotations can really help in reducing clutter and keeping your configuration together.

Hibernate can be a great tool when a database is needed. It makes communication and retrieval of objects much simpler than most services.

October 17, 2005 | Comments (0)
Posted by Kenny

Why Open Document Standards Make Sense

Many companies and organizations have been archiving their documents for years. Unfortunately, the majority of their older documents are in proprietary formats that are no longer used. If anyone wishes to read these older documents they must either use a special computer with the old word processing software or spend a deal of money on plug-ins or converters to view the document. If we are to look forward we can see that the same thing will probably happen again. Currently, the majority of people use Microsoft Document (.doc) format or Star Office/Open Office Document Format (.sxw) for all their documents. These formats, while making sense in the current business environment, may have no place on modern systems in ten years. How can a company be sure that their documents remain readable, usable and, for future use, convertible? The answer lies in open document standards. The most recent, and most promising open document format is the Open Document Format set forth by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). This new open format takes advantage of XML, or Extensible Markup Language, which allows sharing of the document between readers/writers that can read XML. (On a side note, Microsoft is slowly moving toward using XML in their closed document format.) What does this mean for future document sharing and retrieval? It means that you will be able to. Since XML and ODF are standards there will be multiple vendors offering readers and writers for a long time to come. Not to mention that in a worst case scenario the document is still readable via web browser and very easily exported to a number of other formats. Remember, documents are of no use to anyone if they can't be read!

October 11, 2005 | Comments (0)
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Why Mobile Alert Choice Is Important

Earlier Kenny wrote about the importance of mobile alerts. The article explained the ease of staying on top of business logic outside of work using email. So what happens if you want such functionality but don't want (or can't) get email to your phone? After all, some providers charge for the simple service. By opening up to the networked world, you can get the same information from many different sources. The obvious one would be SMS (simple messaging service). This allows someone to send a string of text to your phone. While this can sometimes be easier, it is rarely cheaper than phone email. It also isn't the best solution for everyone. Let's say you spend a lot of time on an IM system such as AIM or Jabber. It would be much simpler from your point of view to get the information from that medium than checking your mail every so often. Getting a quick IM saying that your document has been approved would be much easier than watching your phone or checking mail every so many minutes. These choices allow the best mobile alerts to be used to their fullest extent allowing the employee to be informed without feeling as if they are tied down to their work.

October 4, 2005 | Comments (0)
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Importance of Mobile Notifications

With our lives becoming more and more hectic, it is nice to be tied to our work without physically having to be there. One particular way this is being addressed is through cell phone emails. Sure, actually receiving phone calls would be more efficient and accurate, but it wouldn't cover all possible aspects of your job. Let's say for instance you are waiting for an urgent email from a client, but you don't always have access to a/your computer. In most cases, you would miss this email, but having an email forwarded to your cell phone would solve this.

There are many more advantages of mobile notification. Taking from the example above, this can actually be applied to phone calls. If an important call was sent to your office, it can automatically be forwarded to your cell phone. Of course this can become overwhelming if you receive several calls a day, but inevitably it creates a virtual office no matter where you are.

If you are big into eBay or other forms of auctioning, notifications can be crucial. Getting outbid at the last minute because you didn't have access to a computer is something many of us have experienced. Being able to not only be aware of your current bid, but having the ability to change it through your mobile device keeps you on top of your auction.

Probably the one thing most of us enjoy is having the freedom to shop online from the comfort of our homes. So why would you want to do this elsewhere? Take the situation of going to your local store and finding something you just have to buy. After looking at the price, you realize it is a bit more than you are willing to pay. A quick look at Amazon online through your PDA shows the same item for more than 20% less. You can easily buy it right there, or notify yourself to buy it once you get home. The only disadvantage of this is having to wait for the item since it is being shipped, but the 20% savings difference should more than suffice.

There are many other ways to enjoy mobile notification for both personal and business reasons. How are you using this technology to receive notifications?

September 30, 2005 | Comments (0)
Posted by Kenny

Safer Programming; Safer Programs

Many programmers today still code primarily in C/C++ when writing applications from the ground up. The problem is, many developers think of security as an after thought. The last thing a company wants to do is to hire a PR firm to handle their data theft fiasco or worry about lawyer fees because a 'script kiddie' got his kicks on your servers. One way to greatly lessen the probability of having such an event occur is to have your developers write their applications in a 'safe' language such as Java.

Java implements many safety features allowing the programmer and the client/end user to relax. For instance, Java has buffer bounds checking which makes buffer overflows nearly impossible to accomplish. When programming in C/C++ you are expected to write your own code to check bounds. Not only can this add development time, but it is a step which many younger programmers generally skip so they can move on to the areas that interest them more. With Java's type of low level protection occurring for the programmer, it is easier to work on higher level problems which are generally more apparent from the developer's perspective. It also allows the programmer to move to the areas that they find more interesting without compromising model security.

What language(s) are running your infrastructure?

September 13, 2005 | Comments (0)
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A barcode is a wonderful thing

A project we are working on right now has Optix using barcodes to obtain indexing information. A custom module was written for this task due to the nature of the clients problem to be solved.

A set of documents in the system may contain many barcodes. The custom module will scan across all pages finding all barcodes. These barcodes may have many different meanings, so all barcodes that are found must be validated. We do this by looking at the formatting of the data in the barcode. For example, a social security number looks like 333-44-5555. Then, we also query a database to make sure that data exists in the database. Once all information is validated the record is indexed with as much of this data as possible.

If all the information is not found the record is sent to an "exception" queue for processing by personnel.

Barcode recognition has proven to be much more reliable than the favorite alternative: Zone OCR. We have been amazed by the ability of the barcode scanning software to pick up barcodes at different angles (even upside down), bad quality scans such as faxes and any other distortions that can be made to them.

For this customer, this feature will save a great deal of time and money.

Are barcodes in your future?

May 6, 2005 | Comments (0)
Posted by Sarel Botha

Use scripting to automate repetitive tasks.

Optix has a great scripting engine so you can automate tasks using VB or JavaScript.

Say you find yourself inserting the same or very similar annotations on multiple items in your worklist, you can easily script the process of adding annotations so that it becomes a single click step.

In the real world you might discover that one of your temps scanned a few hundred page documents upside down and now the originals are offsite. Well you wouldn't want to rescan them anyway so what a great place for a handy little script to go in and rotate all the images 180 degrees for you.

Perhaps you have an external database that contains some information that you want integrated with Optix. You can write a script that uses a field from an Optix screen to lookup data in that external database then pops up a message to the user or even inserts it into an Optix field for you automatically.

The scripting engine is COM enabled so if you would like to do something more sophisticated like auto-generate graphs in Excel based on Optix data it would be very easy to do. If you already have Optix installed do a search in the help file for OLE or give us a call for assistance.

May 3, 2005 | Comments (0)
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Data entry got you pulling hair?

Who likes doing data entry? If you say yes you're either lying or you're weird :)

One of the common obstacles we have to overcome in implementing EDM systems is making data entry (required for structured indexing) as painless as possible. There are a few different ways to do this.

If you have an existing system that already contains information on the paper you are scanning then we can probably integrate with that system. The user performing indexing only needs to know a key field for something being scanned such as a PO number. Optix can then go and lookup other information on this document, such as vendor name, and populate that data automatically.

Zone OCR is another way to obtain data from the scanned pages. Information is 'read' by the OCR engine from certain parts on scanned pages and then populated into the index.

Barcodes are very popular in certain industries. If a lot of your forms have barcodes on them we may be able to glean some information from these barcodes to help index documents in the system. Optix also has the ability to create 'patch cards'. These are custom barcodes that are printed on a sheet by themselves and inserted between documents being indexed. They can also contain indexing information and speed up the process.

If these won't do the trick you can go for some more specialized solutions from companies such as Kofax and Captiva. These products can integrate with Optix and make your staff's lives much easier.

April 29, 2005 | Comments (0)
Posted by Sarel Botha

Put a little Albert Einstein in the sauce.

Sometimes we are asked to build complex systems and as a "techie" I want to use the computer for everything. However, there are times when it makes more sense to have a human make a decision instead of trying to compute one. Albert Einstein said "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." Building a system that can do all your work for you probably isn't feasible anyway, so think about how you can make the computer do the heavy lifting. Instead of making a thousand copies and pushing paper everywhere, try and envision a system where the documents are automatically delivered to the right people at the right time. Don't expect that a computer can read your chicken scratch notes in the margin. Do expect that the people you are collaborating with will get information they need. When the business processes change you need to have a system that is flexible. In the lifecycle of a business the way you do things this year are different than how you did them last year, and next year will probably bring new regulations. Companies grow and reorganize all the time so make sure you have control of the system and can modify the workflow. Optix has a great graphical editor for building process workflows. Drag-n-Drop, Click, Move, Add and Bam!!! The business process is up to date for the next new thing.

April 28, 2005 | Comments (0)
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You signature is required here...

Suppose you have a workflow process and scanned images of various forms come to you for review. Optix keeps an audit trail of when you opened the item from your worklist and what you did with it. But, did you know you could have Optix insert your signature on these images? Maybe later in the workflow you need to have these images faxed back out with your signature on them. We can help you setup an easy to use system that lets you apply your signature exactly where you need it on the scanned images.

April 27, 2005 | Comments (0)
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Optix Flexibility

Optix really is very flexible. We are currently making some enhancements to a system that stretches the Optix flexibility to a maximum. The platform for this system is Windows and the DBMS is SQL Server.

In this system, Optix workflows route scanned documents through the company, from person to person. Along the way people get help with their work from a custom "workflow helper" that looks up and displays all the information needed to process items. Workflow helpers are custom written applications that tie seamlessly into the workflow process and allow us to perform additional automation. The system is also integrated with an accounting application at multiple levels.

We can integrate with Optix using its Java API, C API and Queue and Workflow helpers. We have also exposed a subset of the API via XML-RPC. This opens up the integration possibilities to a host of other languages.

April 21, 2005 | Comments (0)
Posted by Sarel Botha

Hey Mister, you got a shortcut for that?

If you have started using Windows XP on your desktop here is a quick tip that will make you a little more efficient. Instead of navigating layers of program-menus to find applications you frequently use, just pin them to the Start menu. The Start menu is split into two sections by default. The lower section is built dynamically based on the applications you most use. The upper section can be easily customized by right clicking on any shortcut and selecting the option called "Pin to Start Menu." Of course if you use the same applications everyday they are already in the Start menu so what is the point of all this??? Well in my job we never seem to work on the same thing three days in a row so it is handy to lock certain applications on the menu so they don't move around... plus, once it is pinned you can memorize that keyboard shortcut and know that it will always start the same application. On my computer I can start a new Putty session with a quick Ctrl-Esc-P-Enter.

April 20, 2005 | Comments (0)
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Get a grip on your cybersecurity.

With the number of high profile data thefts lately, it appears Congress is now stepping up and proposing solutions. Identity theft is big business with estimates at 2.5 Billion a year to consumers, banks and credit card companies. If you don't have a handle on your "cybersecurity" you better get it figured out. One proposal is the mandated disclosure of security breaches. That could be very embarrassing and open you up to lawsuits.

April 19, 2005 | Comments (0)
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Malicious software abounds!

Almost nine million blogs! That is the latest estimate given by the blog-watching service Technorati. With all that noise how do you find anything useful? They are easy to setup so anybody can start one. Once you find something interesting how do you know it's true? BBC News is reporting that blogs are just the latest source for criminal activity. Fake blogs with malicious software just waiting to be clicked! You better go make sure your virus scanner is up-to-date!

April 18, 2005 | Comments (0)
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Versioning in Style

If you produce code you _NEED_ revision control. Whether in your spare time or for your work. We use CVS. It's an old classic version control system that just works. If you use CVS and use Windows on your desktop then I suggest you check out TortoiseCVS. It gives your old CVS repository a shiny new point and click interface that's integrated right into Windows Explorer.

http://www.tortoisecvs.org/

There is also an SVN (Subversion) flavor for those of you that have made the switch.

http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

Now you have no excuse for not versioning your code.

April 15, 2005 | Comments (0)
Posted by Sarel Botha

Invaluable to Development

Everybody that's ever done development on *nix knows what diff is. It allows you to see the difference between 2 files or directories and makes it very easy to create patches. We use another tool called Beyond Compare that uses the same concept but adds a great interface to it. It can compare code and is smart enough to ignore differences such as whitespace.

We've used in quite a few different scenarios. It's useful for comparing the database schemas in 2 different systems. Or, if you have to copy _a lot_ of files from one system to another you can generate a list of all files and their sizes (or even md5sum if you're that paranoid) and run a compare between the 2 systems.

TortoiseCVS even integrates with it, but that's another post.

See more at http://www.scootersoftware.com/

April 14, 2005 | Comments (0)
Posted by Sarel Botha

Cool database tool

We support and develop on a variety of relational database systems. Recently we came across this cool tool called Aqua Data Studio. It has a clean interface and handles Oracle, MSSQL and MySQL (and several others). Check it out Aqua Data Studio.

April 13, 2005 | Comments (0)
Posted by DocuVantage

Linux just makes good sense

Now is the time to migrate. You can dump that old expensive Unix server and move to a faster linux box. Hardware just keeps getting cheaper and faster. It's getting to the point where you can put in a new linux box every year instead of paying maintenance. If you just plan on putting in a new server every Christmas then you busy (slacker) admins can't be too far behind on maintenance. If you are stuck running a Windows server I'm sorry!!!

April 12, 2005 | Comments (0)
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Played with CSS lately?

Browser based applications have their drawbacks but sometimes it is amazing what a few hours of code can produce. With the open nature of web technology we can customize a business application to have a clients own look and feel. Played with CSS lately? It's a great way to transform a stock website into something that fits right into a corporations existing applications. A little javascript for glue and you can integrate right into the current HR or AP system.

April 11, 2005 | Comments (0)
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EDMS unleashed...

This blog will highlight some of the cool things we have been working on lately. Speaking of highlighting we have added a great feature to our web based interface. By grabbing the coordinates output by a third-party OCR engine we have been able to highlight the words of the query wherever they show up in the document image. Kind of the same idea as when you view the cached results from a Google search.

April 8, 2005 | Comments (0)
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New Web-Based Document ScanningOCRPDF

DocuVantage Adds Web-Based Document Scanning OCR/PDF Feature to the Optix Electronic Document Management and Workflow Functionality

DocuVantage has developed a module to allow users to scan, OCR, spell check and store documents in standardized PDF format in Optix within a web browser. Utilizing ActiveX controls and Standard TWAIN Drivers, the module will capture scanned images, create a text layer using an OCR tool, allow for the spell check of the text and convert the document into Adobe's PDF document format.

This technology has been implemented by the Hillsborough County Administrative Services Department in Tampa, Florida. This technology is used to create secure documents routed for approval and later available for searching on the created text layer.

April 13, 2004 | Comments (0)
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100% Mac OS X-based EDMS

100% Mac OS X-based Document Management System

The Optix system for the San Joaquin County Employee's Retirement Association is the first enterprise-level document management deployment to utilize Mac OS X on both client and server.

The installed system uses Fujitsu M4097 duplex scanners to quickly input the wide variety of member documents. Optix's support for bar-coded patch cards in input batches provide the ability to change scanner settings automatically on the fly. Thumbnails of each scanned page allow operators to perform initial quality checks in real time.

The Optix Server running on the back-end XServe securely manages the millions of input pages and integrates tightly with Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 12.5. During the week-long installation and training effort, Optix tools provided SJCERA the ability to rapidly design and deploy custom indexing screens and databases. "We were very impressed with the instant feedback this provided", said Robert Palmer, Retirement Administrator. "Optix's ability to quickly customize the user interface to meet technical and end-user requirements was outstanding. They literally built a custom system around us in a week".

All Optix systems are fully cross-platform with native high-speed scanning support available at any Macintosh or Windows client. Optix workstations also feature image enhancement, form design and processing, barcode recognition, patch cards, and a full set of interactive tools for designing GUI-based indexing and query screens as well as complex workflow routes. In addition to images, the client can store and index any document or file found on the desktop. The Optix Mac client is fully scriptable using AppleScript, allowing users to easily customize its operation and integrate it with third party applications such as OCR.

Optix installations may include Document Management, Imaging, Workflow, COLD/ERM, Text Search, Forms Processing, Fax Processing, Database Publishing, and integration with legacy systems. Optix is available for Macintosh and Windows clients, OS X, Unix, Linux, and Windows servers and supports Sybase, Oracle, Informix, and SQL Server relational database management systems.

DocuVantage is a Value Added Reseller and Integrator for the Optix suite of products.

March 8, 2004 | Comments (0)
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