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Document capture software is the front-end software that is used to convert unstructured and semi-structured paper or formatted electronic business documents (e.g., various PDF files or faxes), and other unstructured content-centric business documents into an indexed image and then automatically use pattern recognition technologies supplemented by business rules to extract accurate data and add pertinent metadata for use in one or more business processes.
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While capture vendors typically offer an array of outputs to support multiple different ECM image formats, the industry has mostly settled on three standard formats. There are pros and cons to each format. Which one you use depends on the volume, what information is being captured, and how you plan on using that information. 1. TIFF As bandwidths were limited when the imaging and document management industry began, the industry adopted 200 dots-per-inch TIFF Group 4 compressed black and white images as their standard (which created a roughly 75K KB image for a standard page of text). A secondary advantage to the TIFF group 4 format was that it is a loss-less compression standard—i.e., no image data is removed during the compression. Each vendor then added some specific headers, which made their formats unique. Third-party capture vendors, therefore, had to create “formatters” or “release scripts” in order to create an image that would seamlessly import into the document management systems.
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
We recently released our 2011 State of the ECM Industry Report, and I thought it timely to summarize the key findings in the report.
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Capture and Imaging | Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
More than ever before, document management professionals at state and local governments, facility managers in schools and hospital, property managers, first responders, need to manage large format drawings within their electronic content management system (ECM) workflow. These can be active or legacy documents (18 inches or larger) used in conjunction with small documents. How do they manage their hard copy drawings as easily as they manage smaller documents? They are using a wide format scanner to digitize large format assets.
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Now I don't want the title of this post to come across as haughty. I give a lot of presentations, but I would be the first to admit that I have a lot to learn. But I do try to constantly improve with each one, and so at least I have a pretty good idea of what SHOULD be done. And coming on the heels of listening to a fair number of presentations at the info360 event, let's just say I got a pretty good idea last week of the converse as well.
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