IMS Data Capture Webinar – September 25, 2014
INTRODUCTION TO ABBYY FLEXICAPTURE
© Copyright 2014 ABBYY
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OVER THIRTY YEARS IN BUSINESS
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TOP 5 KODAK IMAGING RESELLER IN THE US
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DOCUMENT CAPTURE SPECIALISTS
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SCANNERS
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MAINTENANCE
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CAPTURE SOFTWARE
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
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SUPPLIES
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DOCUMENT CONVERSION – BUSINESS PROCESS OUTSOURCING
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98% CUSTOMER RETENTION
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CUSTOMER FOCUSED
The Document Capture Specialists
Business Challenge: Reduce Costs
How to:
● Reduce the spending on staff doing manual data entry
● Speed up document processing to capture discounts and
avoid penalties
● Ensure meeting compliance rules to avoid fees
● Reduce shipping and handling expenses by digitizing paper at
the point of origin
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ABBYY Advanced Data Capture
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In development since 1997
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Incorporates achievements of dozens of successful projects in
various application areas
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More than 5000 installations with more than 1.6 billion pages
processed annually
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ASYS (Germany)
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Finansbank (Turkey)
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Californian Public School District
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United Nations World Food Program
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Ministry of Agriculture of Malaysia
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Fancl Corporation (Singapore)
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Federal Tax Agency of Russia
Montgomery County Government of
the USA
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Government of Orissa (India)
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Nigeria’s Lagos State Government
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Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate
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L'Oreal (Indonesia, the Philippines)
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Grupo Financiero Uno (Nicaragua)
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PepsiCo (USA)
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Types of Documents That Can Be
Processed
Fixed forms or structured
documents
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Surveys
Questionnaires
Tests
Claim forms
Semi-structured documents
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Invoices
Purchase orders
Bills of lading
EOBs
Unstructured documents
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Contracts
Letters
Articles
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Key Features
● Superior data capture accuracy: speeds up processing of documents
even with the most complex and uncommon layouts
● Automated document classification and routing: streamlines
document-based business processes
● State of the art technology: latest capture, OCR, ICR, OBR and OMR
technologies from the world-leading vendor continuously updated and
enhanced by ABBYY
● Scales from a desktop installation to a robust client-server system:
grows together with your business
● Universal support of document types: potential to expand the usage
to different departments over the company and share the investment
● Rich and web-based clients: flexibility of choice between hosted or
on-premises installation
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ABBYY FlexiCapture for Enterprise
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Client/server architecture
High availability features
Advanced permissions management
For more than 10K pages per month
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Distributed capture and processing
Dedicated client stations
Customizable workflows
Web Service API
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ABBYY FlexiCapture: Scanning/Import
● Scanning Station
● Rich and Web client
● Image enhancement: deskew,
rotation, cropping, redaction
● Administrator-defined batch
types
● Registration parameters
● Automatic document separation
● Import of images and PDFs
● From a watched folder (local or
LAN)
● From e-mail attachments
● Integration with all kinds of
scanners and MFPs
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ABBYY FlexiCapture: Classification
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Automatic document classification
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Detection of the document type based on the image look or text content
Multipage documents, documents with variable number of pages,
documents with image or text attachments
Intelligent routing of documents based on the detected document type
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ABBYY FlexiCapture: Data Extraction
● Data extraction
● Printed text (OCR): 180+ OCR languages
including Chinese, Japanese, Korean,
Vietnamese and Hebrew
● Handprint text in forms (ICR): 114
languages
● Checkmark recognition
● 1D, 2D barcode recognition
● Single- and multipage tables
● Repeating groups
● Automatic validation of data
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Validation of data format
Validation against a database
Calculation and verification of sums
Normalizing dates and amounts
Custom scripted rules
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ABBYY FlexiCapture: Verification
Optional group- or field-level verification of data
● Group verification
● Quick verification of checkmarks and digits
● Similar symbols are displayed in a group
● Field verification
● Fields are displayed one by one
● Convenient for Key From Image
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ABBYY FlexiCapture: Verification
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Document-level verification
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Verification of document assembly and document type
Fields with uncertainly recognized characters
Fields that contain very important data that must be checked regardless of the
recognition certainty
Double verification
of important data
by two independent
operators
Distributed verification
of parts of a document
by different operators
Correction of business
rule errors
Database lookups
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ABBYY FlexiCapture: Release
● Export of images to TIFF, searchable PDF and PDF/A
● Export of data to files and databases
● Out-of-the-box connection to Microsoft SharePoint Server
● Custom export to any business application or ECM system
● Simultaneous export to of images and data
to multiple destinations
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DEMONSTRATION
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