At Half-A-Billion Scans And Counting, IRS SCRIPS Program Marches On.

Scan-Optics Inc. and prime partner Logicon Inc. reached a milestone in the IRS Service Center Recognition Image Processing System (SCRIPS) program earlier this month when the number of scanned forms under the effort reached a staggering 500 million. SCRIPS is a data capture, management and storage system that processes three IRS forms -- 1040EZ returns, IRP Form 1099s, and Federal Tax Deposits (FTDs). "SCRIPS started out as an interim solution and has proven itself to be a good IT investment for the IRS," says Steve Vivirito, SCRIPS program manager for Logicon. "This was one of the IRS' first ventures with an imaging system. By reaching the 500 million form milestone, its viability in a high-volume, production environment has been demonstrated conclusively." The system was deployed in April 1994 and is used at five regional IRS service centers. Using Scan-Optics' Series 9000 high-speed document scanners to capture data, the system routes it to the appropriate workstations and creates optical archives for storage and retrieval.