Scan-Optics Out With New Component-Based Document Management Solution

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor, April 19, 1999

Scan-Optics Inc., the Manchester, Conn., maker of high volume document processing systems, has just unveiled DocWise, an ambitious new family of software components for department or enterprise document management. The suite of products, designed exclusively for Windows NT, is comprised of three software servers: DocWise Object Manager, DocWise Workflow Manager, and DocWise COLD.

Since Data Capture customers have historically collected information from forms via a combination of OCR (optical character recognition) and KFI (key-from-image), the company's VistaCapture software product, a suite of ActiveX components, provides KFI, Data Correction and Validation, and post-scanning recognition tools for rapid development of production-ready Data Capture solutions. For such applications the data is important, but the images were often discarded when the data capture process was complete. The advantage of DocWise, says Scan- Optics, is that Data Capture and Document Management Solutions are fully integrated, and available from a single vendor.

DocWise, a natural extension to the company's scanner and data capture products, provides instant access to stored document images, computer generated reports and other information objects. The product also optimizes team productivity with production-level workflow, and supports both local and distributed storage and viewing, including Internet-based access.

DocWise Object Manager, the heart of the new product, indexes, stores and retrieves any electronic object. DocWise Workflow Manager, a transaction-oriented, process-centric service, provides the facilities to define users, groups and priorities, to graphically depict the workflow process, and to define, construct and manage the workflow processes, including cases, folders, rules, routing, etc. DocWise COLD captures, parses, indexes, secures and stores computer generated reports for quick retrieval.

Richard Goyette, vice president of Sales and Marketing for Scan-Optics, says DocWise rounds out the company's solution set by "providing the tools to support the Customer Service function which so often accompanies the data capture process. Scan-Optics has positioned itself to offer all of the components in a total solution, including scanning, imaging, OCR, data correction and validation, indexing, storage and retrieval."