Cognitive Technologies smartens up Russia’s social insurance
Cognitive Technologies, a Russian developer of office automation solutions, has created and installed at Russia’s Social Insurance Fund (SIF) its smart system for mass data entry and processing
Aug 28, 2013
In addition to facilitating extensive e-database management, the system now enables the government body to recognize and process paper documents with what is known as ‘complex background,’ with relevant text information placed upon official stamps and notes, watermarks, piled paper, etc.
SIF routinely processes as many as 50 million documents a year. The Cognitive Technologies team has developed its Cognitive Guilloché, a software module for recognition of business papers with such complex backgrounds.
"The system is capable of processing tens of thousands of documents a day. For example, it takes no more than 5 seconds to enter a medical certificate into a database and then process it. To do it manually, an employee has to spend 30-40 seconds. A skilled staff can process a maximum of 200-300 documents a day; while out automation solution enables a complete processing cycle, including scanning, recognition, data verification, image compression and data transfer within SIF’s documents circulation system, with a capacity of 700-800 documents per workplace a day," explained Vladimir Arlazarov, the company’s Cognitive Forms R&D lab that developed the new system.
The new project is under way at the Fund’s central office in Moscow and has also been introduced to eight pilot regions in Russia, including Nizhny Novgorod (mid-Volga area), Veliky Novgorod (Northwest Russia), Tambov (Central Russia), Novosibirsk (Siberia), Kurgan (Urals), Astrakhan (Lower Volga), Khabarovsk (Russia’s Far East), and Karachaevo-Cherkessia (Northern Caucasus).
SIF routinely processes as many as 50 million documents a year. The Cognitive Technologies team has developed its Cognitive Guilloché, a software module for recognition of business papers with such complex backgrounds.
"The system is capable of processing tens of thousands of documents a day. For example, it takes no more than 5 seconds to enter a medical certificate into a database and then process it. To do it manually, an employee has to spend 30-40 seconds. A skilled staff can process a maximum of 200-300 documents a day; while out automation solution enables a complete processing cycle, including scanning, recognition, data verification, image compression and data transfer within SIF’s documents circulation system, with a capacity of 700-800 documents per workplace a day," explained Vladimir Arlazarov, the company’s Cognitive Forms R&D lab that developed the new system.
The new project is under way at the Fund’s central office in Moscow and has also been introduced to eight pilot regions in Russia, including Nizhny Novgorod (mid-Volga area), Veliky Novgorod (Northwest Russia), Tambov (Central Russia), Novosibirsk (Siberia), Kurgan (Urals), Astrakhan (Lower Volga), Khabarovsk (Russia’s Far East), and Karachaevo-Cherkessia (Northern Caucasus).