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Many new products and partnerships were announced by TAWPI Affiliate members at Work Process/2001.
At TAWPI's 31st Annual Forum in New Orleans, there were several recurring themes, both general and specific.
On a general level there was more partnering. This was particularly notable between the recognition vendors and the data capture vendors. Neurascript (44 (0) 1223 488570 / www.neurascript.com), eager to be recognized for its recognition engines on this side of the Atlantic, trumpeted its agreement with Kofax Imaging (949-727-1733 / www.kofax.com) (Neurascript's forms processing features are integrated as a custom module in Kofax's Ascent Capture.). AMOS (404-876-8800) and BISYS (856-424-0150 / www.bisys.com) announced an agreement to provide remittance software for the community bank industry and Open Scan (303-333-7444 / www.openscantech. com) signed an OEM agreement with Mitek (858-635-5900 / www.miteksys.com) to incorporate Mitek toolkits directly into the Open Scan solution.
Several vendors announced products or methodologies designed to securely output key entry tasks to offshore or home-based workers. Using various methods of encrypting data, by perfecting distributed data entry, a pool of untapped workers can be accessed.
Virtual Solutions (717-731-6200 / www.virtualsolutions.com) announced vCapture version 3.0, which promises to lessen the volume of work being outsourced to temporary workers or service bureaus. Rather than relinquishing control over data to a third party, this solution extracts field data and transmits these "snippets" to remote workers. Not only is data encrypted, but it is removed from the context of other data, which might compromise its security. Data output in this manner is entered and validated by at least two independent sources, adding accuracy as well as data integrity.
Virtual Solutions brought one of its flagship customers to New Orleans to talk about the product. Ernie Fanella, director of the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue's Imaging bureau said, "Security and quality of data are critical to the success of processing millions of tax returns."
With much fanfare (a New Orleans Jazz band marched through the expo hall) check recognition solution provider Orbograph (978-901-5042 / www.orbograph.com), and its reseller AFS (405-787-1800 / www.afsimage. com), introduced OrboCAR APEX, a software extension to its family of courtesy amount and legal amount recognition products. The companies boast that the new "smart" character amount recognition (CAR) tool will, "virtually eliminate the...