Managed.IT - issue 59

23 www.managedITmag.co.uk SCANNERS A simple example would be the scanning of a dirty, torn envelope where part of the address is unreadable. By assessing all the fields and the text and cross- referencing this extraction in a master database, which might hold millions of customer records, the AI solution can bring partial ‘reads’ together to get a qualified and accurate result within milliseconds. Help from the crowd A fourth way to achieve clean data is to use scalable, automated crowd sourcing to do what’s called triple data entry. This pretty much guarantees data accuracy and is ideal for a range of applications like forms and loans processing, prescription management, mail room and customer on-boarding. Crowd sourcing pushes snippets of the same information to online data entry clerks based globally who are connected to a management platform via the Internet. Two people check the same snippets of unmatched or poor quality data from an image before entering it into a system. If there’s a mismatch between what the two individuals input, it goes to a third person for exception handling. This is how 100% accuracy rates are achieved. Crowd sourcing data checking is ideal where intelligent word or character recognition technologies (ICR and IWR) struggle to recognise handwriting in a field and more validation is required. Working with a specialist crowd sourcing partner that pays data entry operators by key or entry stroke costs a fraction of what it would to employ your own staff when salaries, pensions, office space, desktops etc. are taken into account. Data’s exponential growth has created opportunities to leverage it in new ways for better business outcomes. Crowd sourcing is a relatively new area in the information and document management industry. This kind of data validation approach is cost effective, fast, secure and works reliably. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to give it a go. https://go.ibml.com 1. Impossible Missions Force 2. IDC, Worldwide Global DataSphere Forecast, 2020–2024: The COVID-19 Data Bump and the Future of Data Growth 3. Gartner, The State of Sales Operations, 2020 Kodak Alaris is expanding its document capture portfolio with the launch of a new line of low- volume production scanners and a refresh of its web-based capture software. It has also launched a trio of new cloud-based scanner management tools. Based on the award-winning i2900 and i3000 Series Scanners, the Kodak S2085f (A4) and S3000 Series (A3) are faster and more powerful while offering network connectivity and a better user experience. Two of the new models, the 85 pages per minute (ppm) Kodak S2085f Scanner and the 100ppm Kodak S3100f Scanner, have integrated flatbeds, giving users the flexibility to capture information from business cards, magazines, books etc., as well as cut-sheet documents. The other new scanners – the 60ppm Kodak S3060 Scanner, the 100ppm Kodak S3100 Scanner and the 120ppm Kodak S3120 Scanner – are all A3 sheet-fed devices. All models include an optional rear exit ‘straight-through’ paper path for exception documents, which streamlines scanning of thicker and large-format documents and eliminates paper jams. New features include: n True network shareability. The scanners can be securely accessed by any PC on the network. n Enhanced built-in image processing. Image processing on the S2085f/S3000 Series delivers smaller file sizes for lower storage costs and faster retrieval. Perfect Page technology automatically turns poor quality originals into crisp, high quality images at the rated speed. n Larger touch-screen colour display. This makes it easier to send documents to pre-defined capture workflows right from the scanner and view advanced options such as maintenance counters and productivity counters. n Improved enterprise-grade security protocols. These safeguard the transmission of scanned images between the host and scanner when scanning over the network. TLS encryption ensures data integrity, while secure boot validates ‘trusted’ firmware before executing boot. n Improved paper handling. A feeder capacity of 300 pages allows users to scan more documents in less time. SurePath technology cleanly stacks paper of varying sizes and thickness, reducing the need for manual pre- sorting. All of the new scanners are EPEAT Gold Registered for environmental excellence. Info Input Solution Users can extend the scanner’s capabilities with the Kodak Info Input Solution v6 web-based and mobile scanning application. The new version separates, classifies and extracts data without the need for barcodes or patch sheets, which reduces the need for document preparation, and lets customers choose which cloud engine to use for data extraction and indexing (Google Vision AI, Amazon Recognition or Microsoft Azure AI). www.alarisworld.com Intelligent document capture and scanner management Kodak Alaris introduces new scanners and software for faster image processing and intelligent data extraction