Project Title: A number of OCR/ICR and document imaging solutions for EasyData B.V.

The Challenge

The Challenge: EasyData B.V. is a system integrator engaged in distribution of products by ABBYY Software House (Moscow). EasyData soon realized a hot market demand for customized OCR/ICR and imaging solutions based on ABBYY products, as their customers' specific needs were not always covered by ABBYY off-the-shelf products. EasyData started looking for a reliable, knowledgeable in FineReader technology, and yet reasonably priced contractor resource to help the company bridge this gap.

The Solution

EasyData found ATAPY Software - a contract development arm of ABBYY, skilled and experienced in ABBYY OCR technology. Due to its location in Novosibirsk, Russia, the company is able to offer excellent skills (Novosibirsk IT resources pool is considered one of the strongest in the country) at very attractive prices. Engaging ATAPY as a subcontractor allowed EasyData to complete a number of projects for several high-profile customers.

EasyData's cooperation with Oce, one of the world's leaders in hardware and software for document processing, started with a relatively simple "Oce Document Interpreter" application which detected separator pages within the incoming image stream and split the stream into multi-page documents. Stability, short development time, and low cost of this initial application led Oce to order additional features, such as barcode search and logging, empty page detection and many others. Another application, titled FineRead, packs the power of ABBYY's OCR technologies into a silent "image gobbler", lurking as an NT service program and monitoring selected catalogues for new images. Incoming images get recognized and exported according to a sophisticated set of instructions composed by the user. Merged together, these two applications formed the basis for Scan2IT ("Scan to Intelligent Text") - a complex image processing system now offered by Oce offices around the world.

Van Gend & Loos, one of the largest Dutch logistics and cargo companies, became another customer of EasyData wishing to automate its document processing through OCR technology. The goal was to extract certain textual and graphical information from an incoming stream of printed forms. Having considered the prohibitive cost of purchasing and operating the full-scale form-processing systems, EasyData and ATAPY offered and implemented a custom solution which works only with the documents received by Van Gend & Loos, but does it better and for a fraction of the cost as compared to any ready-to-use product.

When MEMIC, the Center for Data and Information Management of the University of Maastricht, faced a huge number of questionnaire images to be picked up page-by-page from different catalogues, merged into multi-page TIFF documents and indexed, it relied on EasyData to deliver the right tool for the job. And just as before, EasyData knew the right people for it. The application developed by ATAPY has now been operating flawlessly at MEMIC for two years and processed tens of thousands of forms up to the customer's expectations.

Among EasyData's OCR and imaging customers are also Amsterdam International Airport Schiphol, the largest Dutch hospital AMC, Dutch Institute of War documentation NIOD, University of Nijmegen, Technical University of Eindhoven, University of Wageningen and others. Many projects have been completed, and many more are on the horizon. To satisfy the customers, to let EasyData grow into the supplier of choice on the custom OCR solutions market, and to prove that the European management combined with the Russian technical aptitude and installed on the solid basis of the modern technologies is a formula of success.

Tools and Technologies

• ABBYY FineReader Engine
  
• ABBYY FineReader Handprint
  
• Project Details

Related links

http://www.easydata.nl

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