ixtract 3.6 Released (June 11, 2008)ixtract version 3.6 was released today, featuring many new features, enhancements and fixes. Among the new features are:
Existing customers under support agreements, where the features are compatible with customizations and custom enhancements, and who would benefit from the new versions will receive free upgrades delivered electronically. Customers without ongoing support agreements, contact your reseller or salesperson to receive an upgrade.
IDEA CTO speaks at AIIM Boston Mar 2008 (Jan 09, 2008)ICT04: Auto-categorization of Unstructured Data
Track:Information Classification, Taxonomies &
Metadata Management
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Speaker: Milind Joshi , CTO, IDEA TECHNOSOFT INC.
Update 10 March 2008: A packed standing-room only audience attended the conference session at a time when they had at least 4 other sessions to choose from at the conference. Feedback received indicates that participants benefited from the technology overview and non-partisan information presented at the session.
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Classifying unstructured content is a very difficult problem, especially if your content is unstructured and you have high volumes of data. Most electronic document management systems force users to "tag" and "index" documents as they go in – users rarely have enough time to do that, so they take shortcuts or make mistakes. Using automatic classification, keyword extraction, and summarization tools helps make it easier to put content away. Capturing incoming content correctly helps make it easier to find.
IDEA CTO to speak at Findability Summit, Florida (Jul 15, 2007)Information Search beyond Taxonomies:
Making Terabytes of Information Findable
You have your RDBMS, and your content search engine. Your team or consultant even built a cool taxonomy. Now what? How do you get all that content into a form that gets you what your users are looking for, and fast. How do you get beyond the "X million search matches found"?
Track:Information Classification & Taxonomies
The findability summit has been postponed by the organizers, new dates will be announced soon
Link to Conference Session Info
ixNamer v3.2 released (Jun 15, 2007)IDEA releases the latest version of its ixNamer software.
ixNamer is a post-scan software to automatically name scanned images according to sophisticated rules based on Barcode or Character Recognition Results, including handprint characters, and other image heuristics.
For companies that scan hundreds or thousands of images of documents that are similar to each other, like invoices, work orders, work tickets, delivery challans, waybills, contracts, etc., finding them afterwards easily enough is a big problem. Most document management systems force users to manually type in index fields which would then be used to retrieve these documents. This is a time-consuming task. Some DMS software products allow some OCR, but the quality of the OCR results leaves a lot of manual efforts on the part of operators.
ixNamer eliminates this drudgery by allowing to specify very detailed rules, applying the latest noise removal, layout detection, and recognition technologies, and gives high quality results, enabling a high degree of automation. In addition, the product is independent of the scanner used, or the EDMS deployed.
In a recent customer deployment, ixNamer succeeded in naming over 95% of all scanned images automatically, needing user input for less than 5% of images, and that too mainly because
The enhancements in this version are:
Auto Categorization and Field Extraction
from Unstructured Content (Feb 01, 2007)
Our CTO speaks at AIIM Conference, April 16-19, 2007 in Boston
The AIIM Conference and Expo is the world's premier Enterprise Content & Information Management Event. Thousands of business and IT professionals attend, more than 250 major vendors exhibit.
Our CTO, Milind Joshi, delivered an educational presentation to attendees who want to learn more about categorizing unstructured data and extracting useful information from it.
The presentation explored current practices, the scientific research and technology around unstructured content, and cover some techniques that can be used to work with unstructured documents with a practical focus that attendees could use in deploying similar systems in their own organizations.
No specific products, services, or technologies were endorsed in the presentation, as it was intended to be educational in nature.
When: Wednesday April 18, 2007, 1:30 - 2:30 PM
Conference: AIIM Conference
Track: Managing Unstructured Data
Where: Boston Convention Centre, Boston, 415 Summer St, Boston, MA, USA
Click here for more information on the session.
The presentation was widely attended, with a packed audience, some attendees having to stand for the duration of the talk.
Feedback indicates that attendees were very satisfied with the content, presentation, and topics covered in the presentation. Click to download the Auto-Categorization and Field Extraction from Unstructured Content presentation and read it yourself!
IDEA Commences 4th
Year of Operation in Canada (Oct 15, 2006)Settling in for the long haul
IDEA recently commenced the 4th year of its operations in Canada. This achievement is all thanks to our Valued Customers, Canada-wide channel partners, employees and associates. The core IDEA team has been in business under various names and organizational structures for over 8 years internationally.
This is a landmark for everyone working with IDEA, because, according to the Innovation Synergy Centre in Markham Ontario, the rate of survival of micro-enterprises (0-5), which IDEA started as, is as low as 50% in Ontario, as low as 37% in other parts of Canada, and as less as 69% for other 5-99 employee companies.
What does this mean for our customers and partners?
It means that IDEA TECHNOSOFT has set down a strong basic infrastructure, a sound business growth strategy with sustainable long-term growth. It means that IDEA's products and services will continue to be supported in the longer term, and in continuous innovation and new development
In the following year, customers and partners can look forward to several new and exciting product launches, upgrades to existing products and a whole lot of exciting technologies brought to the market in solutions that are simple to deploy and operate.
Network
Recognition Server Software (Sep 10, 2006)
IDEA announced the release of its latest version 3.1 of Software for Network-wide Text Recognition of scanned images.
ixTexter NTS, a component of the ixtract family of products, can run either as a scriptable command-line, or a Windows NT Service. In service mode, it works as a Recognition Server, polls a set of folders periodically. When images in pre-configured image formats are found, they are recognized with OCR engines and exported to various formats such as Searchable PDF, XML, RTF, CSV, XLS, TXT, and other special-purpose formats, and recognition results written either to the same path or a separately configured path. The original image files can then be archived to a separate folder, renamed, or deleted when no longer required.
Designed as an OCR-engine independent framework, it can deploy one of more OCR/ICR/Barcode engines and perform a complex series of steps to every incoming image. The advantage is that this product can ship with best-in-class engines for that particular application or requirement.
ixTexter NTS can interface with MFU scanners as well as dedicated Document Scanners, and can process either color, grayscale, or black-and-white images.
One of the major advantages of this product is that systems administrators and IT staff no longer have to install OCR software on every workstation or desktop in the organization. Users simply scan their images in as TIFF, JPEG, or over 30 different formats, and the software automatically converts those images to Searchable Text-based formats, ready for digital indexing, search & retrieval. Centralized control means that logging and troubleshooting is centralized, reducing the total cost of deployment and ownership. Most parameters can be controlled by IT staff from a simple config file.
Pricing depends on the total number of images to be processed per month, the number of different engines that are required for document processing, total number of installed servers, and any special customization required, but can save as much as 65% over individually installed OCR software in initial deployment and training costs alone, and over 75% in administration and maintanence costs.
Contact IDEA Sales at info@ideatechnosoft.com, or 416-895-8956 x2
IDEA Certifies Panasonic Scanners (July
24, 2006)
IDEA announced the Certification of the following models of Panasonic Document Scanners for use with our Data Capture Software.
After thorough testing and analysis, we are happy to recommend them to our quality-conscious customers.
As we develop custom High-Speed, High-Accuracy Data capture Solutions, we were on the lookout for scanners that have all the features that our applications could use to deliver high-quality output. The scanners were tested for speed and image quality under the following different combinations of criteria:
We tested all the above scanners over several weeks, and put them through loads that were beyond the official rated loads of each machine, and found that the machines handled increased workloads very well.
We found that these scanners are extremely ruggedly built, and easy to maintain. Installation was a fairly simple process, and the scanners worked well with other scanning programs as well.
Each of the above scanners is good for its own set of applications, and we would recommend the appropriate model for different needs. The 2026 is really good for small workgroup or personal scanning, and the 3065 is excellent for production scanning. However, different models and variations are possible for different needs.
IDEA TECHNOSOFT is an independent Software Developer, Consultant, and Systems Integrator not affiliated to any Panasonic group company. The above is a general review, and not a specific recommendation for any purpose or use. For informational use only
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