ABBYY FlexiCapture 10 Enhanced to Support SaaS-Based Document Capture

MILPITAS, Calif., Aug. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --  ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, linguistic technologies and services, announced the latest release of its FlexiCapture 10 software for data and document capture. The system now provides access to all document scanning and verification functions via Web interfaces, facilitating the deployment of FlexiCapture in SaaS and cloud environments. It also allows companies to quickly implement distributed document capture processes, saving resources typically spent on local software installation and maintenance. ABBYY FlexiCapture 10 now offers a complete set of Web-based operator stations including a brand new Web Capture Station that combines both scanning and verification functions in a single interface. Additionally, it offers a range of enhancements, such as content-based auto-learning technology for document classification and extended verification functions.

ABBYY FlexiCapture 10 provides intelligent technologies for automating the process of extracting data from a variety of documents, including machine-readable forms, semi-structured and unstructured documents. It can process multiple types of documents in a single stream and scales from a standalone application to enterprise-level projects with distributed processing. Additionally, it provides highly intuitive tools for setting-up document capture processes, enabling users to train the system with simple point-and-click operations. A powerful all-in-one solution, ABBYY FlexiCapture 10 offers a full range of functionality for document scanning, classification, indexing and data extraction.

New Web-based Stations: Ideal Solution at the Point of Service

The product now includes a dedicated Web Scanning Station, a Web Verification Station and a brand new Web Capture Station, which combines both of those functionalities in a single interface. Web-based stations are an ideal solution to address the needs of organizations with a distributed network of offices or points of service — such as insurance companies, banks, healthcare providers, travel agencies and more. With the new addition, ABBYY FlexiCapture enables customers to quickly deploy a front office capture system virtually anywhere with no installation effort, considerably optimizing their business processes. Now remote workers can scan documents, quickly send them for data extraction, verify if needed and deliver results to corporate information systems. Additionally, with the enhanced Web Verification Station, ABBYY FlexiCapture now provides organizations with a convenient way of outsourcing verification tasks.

Secure Verification

FlexiCapture 10 now supports "secure" verification designed for better protection of sensitive information in documents. It can divide all data contained in one document into several groups and forward them separately to different operators for verification. For example, one operator checks "sums" while another is checking "names" from the same documents, yet they are unable to interconnect those pieces of data.

New Content-Based Auto-Learning Technology

Since its initial release, FlexiCapture can be trained to automatically distinguish documents of different types based on a set of sample images. With the latest product release, its auto-learning technology has been further enhanced to support both image-based and content-based approaches to the document classification.

In the image-based classification mode, the system can quickly process similar looking documents, such as forms or invoices from the same vendor, and allows users to achieve faster data extraction. The new content-based approach helps classify and process unstructured documents that may have very different layouts within the same document type (e.g. contracts, letters, etc.). Content-based classification applies full-text analysis of documents looking for words and phrases that are considered distinctive for certain document types.

To further improve user experience, ABBYY FlexiCapture 10 now supports 13 interface languages including English, French, German, Hungarian, Chinese (simplified characters), Czech, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Serbian, and Spanish.   

About ABBYY

ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies and services. Its key products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line of data capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and development tools, supporting a variety of platforms and computing environments. ABBYY Language Services provides comprehensive linguistic solutions to corporate customers. Paper-intensive organizations from all over the world use ABBYY solutions to automate time- and labour-consuming tasks and to streamline business processes. ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as those of Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of Education of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, Montgomery County Government of the USA, and Government of Canada. Companies that license ABBYY technologies include BancTec, Canon, EMC/Captiva, Hewlett-Packard, KnowledgeLake, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Samsung Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped with equipment from the world's top manufacturers such as Epson, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Microtek, Panasonic, Plustek, Ricoh, Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY is headquartered in Moscow, Russia, with offices in Germany, the UK, the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Cyprus, Australia, Japan and Taiwan. For more information, visit http://www.abbyy.com.

ABBYY, the ABBYY Logo, FineReader, Lingvo and FlexiCapture are either registered trademarks or trademarks of ABBYY Software Ltd. All other trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners.

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