Mitek wins lottery (contract)

Today, Dec 2002

Document processing and recognition software developer Mitek Systems (858513-4600 / www.miteksys.com), has contracted with Banca de Quinielas de Montevideo to provide software licenses and professional services for Mitek's Doctus forms processing system. Banca de Quinielas is a processor for the Uruguay National Lottery using Doctus to process 1.5 million lottery game tickets per month its headquarters in Montevideo Uruguay.

The Mitek system replaces a previous installation that had dropped product support. Initial production runs show that Doctus is reducing the number of keystrokes and speeding up the operation.

"With the previous system, we needed 16 validation terminals, but with Doctus we were able to reduce that number to 7, with proportionate cost savings," said Federico Kereki. Banca.

The processing is under a tight schedule. Dealers sell game tickets until 4 p.m. when the game tickets start arriving via courier. The secure processing begins at 6 p.m. when the lottery numbers are drawn and tickets can no longer be received. To ensure security lottery results are kept from the Banca processing staff. The ticket processing is completed that evening by midnight. The quantity of game tickets processed ranges from 50.000 to a peak of 90,000 per night. The information on these forms consists of mark sense boxes, machine printed and hand printed data. Three NCR7780 transports are used at the Banca processing operation to capture the information from the game tickets.