Information technologies firm, SearchInform Technologies Inc., has released a complex solution for converting print documents into electronic format, designed to significantly speed the entire process.
According to the company, large print data archives, be it either books or documents, significantly complicate the process of finding just the data you need, and, on top of that, take up too much space, which is why most libraries and companies dealing with hundreds of paper documents a day choose to convert all their print archives into electronic format. SearchInform's solution can be viewed as teamwork of three separate systems under the control of management system. Management system controls the work of scanning and recognition systems. After getting the data and checking its integrity, the system places it into a storage, where this data will be available for search.
Scanning system is a high-performance book-type (primarily for libraries) or document-type scanner. This solution finds its market in the banking sphere as well as in companies with huge daily document flow. Recognition system is built with the help of Abby Recognition Server technology. Under the control of the management system, the recognition system can automatically conduct recognition and converting of digitalized data without any input from a human-operator. Search system is SearchInform search server.
By connecting to it with the help of client versions of the program you can organize quick and quality full text search in digitalized and converted into text format information. Main features of SearchInform: - Phrase search with due consideration to stemming and thesaurus - New SoftInform Search Technology of search for similar documents - High indexing speed (from 15 to 30 Gb/hour), - Client-server architecture - Scalability - Query caching system - Support of over 60 most popular text formats, Outlook & TheBat electronic messages, mp3 & avi tags, and logs of MSN and ICQ instant messaging programs - Indexing DBMS fields (Lotus, SQL, Oracle).
SearchInform Technologies was founded in 1995 and has been operating in the area of information technologies with special focus on information searching, storing and processing. The range of company's products is quite large and encompasses from mass production of single user-oriented products to ready business solutions to be integrated into corporate systems. Owing to its extensive experience in various projects, the company offers its services on developing custom information systems of any complexity.
SearchInform search modules work in products of such companies as Hummingbird DM (document-management of Western grand developer Hummingbird), PDM Lotsia Plus from the Russian developer of project documentation management systems Lotsia Soft, and in HelpDesk system of IPI company.
