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I need to... |
I should use... |
| Create a
document management system to store, search and view my
documents
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Digitech PaperVision
provides a fully featured,
HIPAA-compliant document management system that is scalable
to be affordable enough for small businesses yet powerful enough
for the Fortune 500. Includes a customizable application
for searching and viewing, as well as a web interface.
WorkFlow and
Report Mangement
(COLD) modules enhance your ROI.
PaperVision is designed
to work with PaperFlow scanning software, but
SimpleIndex with
SimpleExport provides a direct scanning interface for
PaperVision at a much lower cost.
SimpleIndex can also
process office documents, PDF files and other electronic files
that PaperVision cannot.
PaperVision XPress offers a similar search interface as
PaperVision Enterprise at a lower cost, without the extra
scalability, security and options.
SimpleIndex has robust automatic scanning and includes a
low-cost searching and viewing
application as well.
SimpleSearch
is available for workstations that only need
viewing capabilities. |
| Use an
online, hosted document management solution to give access to
documents via the web
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Ricoh
DocumentMall
is a reasonably priced hosted solution based on EMC Documentum's
Enterprise Content Management platform.
Digitech PaperVision provides a web interface with its document
management server. This lets you host your own documents
online, or you can use their ImageSilo hosted solution.
ImageSilo is more feature-rich than
DocumentMall, but at a
higher monthly cost.
DocuLex WebSearch has a small office (10 user) and unlimited
user versions that provides web-based access to documents using
your in-house servers. |
| Scan my
documents to organized folders and files on my computer
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SimpleIndex provides the easiest, lowest cost solution for
this type of scan job. It has powerful automation features
like OCR, barcode recognition and 1-click processing for a
fraction of the cost of similar systems.
Digitech PaperFlow is a good solution for scanning large quantities
of documents in a multi-user environment. It has no
monthly scan limitations and a variety of built-in exports to
common document management systems. |
| Convert
scanned documents to MS Word or PDF files I can edit
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This process is
called OCR or
Optical Character Recognition.
We sell several of the most popular
OCR products, including
OmniPage,
FineReader,
ReadIRIS. We also have our own
OCR
toolkit for developers,
SimpleOCR.
Mac Users can use
ReadIRIS for Mac
or FineReader Professional for Mac.
PaperFlow allows high-volume OCR
processing.
ABBYY Recognition Server provides centralized OCR processing
for large organizations based on a per-processor server license.
We recommend
ABBYY FineReader Corporate because of its concurrent
licensing scheme, broad language support and support for "Hot
Folders" for background processing. |
| Operate
a
scanning service bureau to perform outsourced scanning services |
SimpleIndex and PaperFlow both provide broad scanning and
indexing capabilities, as well as the ability to create
searchable CDs you can distribute to clients. Neither
program has any page per month limitations, unlike other
products in that price range.
PaperFlow is more expensive, but
provides better features for multi-user scanning and indexing
environments and more built-in exports to a variety of document
and content management solutions.
SimpleIndex also has dynamic OCR and electronic file
processing features that
PaperFlow does not.
ScanStore also offers opportunities to earn
dividends when you sell
PaperVision
and SimpleSearch to your clients for their retrieval needs. |
| Read
hand-printed data from filled-in forms like applications and
surveys
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ABBYY FormReader is
a powerful forms processing system with accurate handprint
recognition and
desktop versions that are affordable for small
businesses.
FormReader Enterprise provides powerful
processing for large data processing centers and service
bureaus. The base Enterprise system can divide the
processing workflow among up to 7 different users, with the
ability to add scanning, processing, verification and
administration workstations as needed to keep up with demand. |
| Read
unstructured documents like Invoices and other files coming from
multiple sources |
ABBYY FormReader
with FlexiCapture Studio lets you define complex document layout
rules to find key information anywhere it appears on the page.
SimpleIndex lets you use regular expression templates and
dictionary files to extract key fields from OCR text.
SimpleIndex implements a simplified version of
FlexiCapture's dynamic OCR for a fraction of the cost.
FlexiCapture is a great deal versus comparable enterprise
solutions like AnyDoc or Kofax. |
