Data Handling.Neurascript cuts keystrokes Companies it is claimed can now process forms in up to 25% less time. Neuraseript has just launched a new module for its Intelli-Form ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition or Image Character Recognition) The machine recognition of hand-printed characters as well as machine printing that is difficult to recognize. software package designed to make data keying faster and easier. The application allows users to complete and verify data fields that have been pre-populated from scanned documents using Intelli-Form. It can also be used as a module for keying data from scratch. The key-from-image application reduces the time taken to enter data by inimising the number of keystrokes needed. Intelli-Key can be configured to auto-complete data fields. To enter a full address, for example, users only have to input a house number and postcode postcode Noun a system of letters and numbers used to aid the sorting of mail Noun 1. postcode - a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail postal code, ZIP code, ZIP and the software will automatically fill in the rest. Alternatively, data can be selected from drop-down selection boxes. Intelli-Key also guides users around the document image and automatically selects data fields that need to he verified or completed. This means that data entry operators are not slowed down by having to take their hands off the keyboard to use a mouse. The application is flexible and can be tailored for individual data entry scenarios. Screen layout is defined by configuration flies which can be changed to provide a tailored front-end environment. The keyboard can also be re-mapped for best performance. Other features include: * Support for multiple form types * Field-level editing * Automatic flagging of incomplete mandatory fields, validation failures overridden data and rejected data * User-defined validation scripts using VB for applications * Re-scan request for individual forms * Zoom facility to enhance image * Image rotate facility www.neurodynamics.com TELEform v7 Cardiff Software, introduced TELEform v7,an upgrade to TELEform which automates the processing of paper forms and documents into database and Web-based content management systems. TELEform v7 includes more than 100 new features and enhancements, including improved throughput and performance, a new version of the point- and-click Form Designer, support for colour scanners, native XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. input and output, as well as support for processing signatures from paper or online forms. TELEform is an information capture product offering production-level processing of both paper forms and documents, with extended support for processing online eforms using the HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. +Forms and PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. +Forms add-on products. AutoMerge Publisher,is also a new add-on product that implements personalised form merge and personalised eReply applications using print, fax, email and Adobe PDF format. AutoMerge Publisher AutoMerge Publisher, automates the creation and delivery of personalised, pre-filled eforms and ereply documents. Where TELEform collects, cleans and processes incoming data, AutoMerge Publisher automates the delivery of pre-filled forms, and can automate the `next step' by delivering personalised response documents, including invoices, membership cards and confirmations. It merges data with form templates to deliver personalised pre-filled forms using print, fax, email and Adobe PDF. Within form merge applications, AutoMerge Publisher can pre-fill portions of a form with name, company and known contact information, while leaving the unknown form questions blank. Pre-filled forms are created via an automated batch process and sent by the thousands over email as standard Adobe PDF attachments. Users can complete and submit these form online or can print and fax the completed form into the TELEform system for automated processing. www.cardiff.com ACDSee 3.1 ACD Systems Incorporated in 1989, ACD Systems Ltd. evolved into a software developer for the nascent CD-ROM cataloguing industry. It was realized that a key technological advantage could be found if ACD provided the fastest software JPEG decoder on the market. International, has released ACDSee version 3.1. ACDSee is a full-featured image viewer See viewer. , browser, database, file management, and image manipulation tool in one, for managing digital images for both high-end graphics professionals and home users. ACDSee 3.1 harnesses the plug-in architecture of the previous version and with new features including the option of using an advertising-enabled version of the software. A full-featured version of ACDSee 3.1 can be downloaded from the Internet and used free for 90 days. At the end of the trial period, users can choose to run the software in `sponsored' mode. This mode allows free use of the full version of ACDSee 3.1 but:, requires consumers to view ads when using the software. Users may also opt to purchase a registered version of the software that is free of advertising. In addition, ACDSee 3.1 also allows users to: * Generate web pages from photos * Send images by e-mail directly from ACDSee * Generate and print thumbnail contact sheets * Play embedded audio in Exif JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. files * Customize toolbars * Trial LuraWave and LuraDoe extreme compression technology plug-ins for 30 days ACDSee 3.1 is available for purchase at www.ACDSYSTEMS.comlorders for $49.95 US. ACDSYSTEMS.com. Speech Recognition for City The first speech recognition software vocabulary built specifically for City professionals has been launched by The Speech Recognition Company (SRC (SouRCe) Contrast with DST, which is an abbreviation of "destination." ) of London. SRC has developed the City Finance vocabulary for personnel who produce text in areas such the Corporate Finance, Equities Research, Fund Management and Financial Reporting. The software allows users to dictate City terminology into letters, reports, e-mails etc. directly to their computers at secretarial typing speeds, with their spoken words automatically being converted to text. The key benefit of this purpose-built vocabulary is that it is created from the day to day working text, or "jargon", of City professionals. The vocabulary was created from over 6 million words collected from leading finance professionals and firms such as Dresdner Kleinwort Dresdner Kleinwort (DKIB) is the investment bank of Dresdner Bank AG, part of Allianz since July 2001. Headquartered in London and Frankfurt and with an international network including offices in the financial centres of New York and Tokyo, Dresdner Kleinwort provides a wide range Benson. Areas covered include Equities Analysis and Research, Corporate Finance, Fund Management, Tax and Stock Exchange Regulation. Among the thousands of terms, company names, initials and phrases included in the vocabulary are: 31 Group, AIM, ABN Amro ABN AMRO Algemene Bank Nederland-Amsterdam Roterdam Bank (Dutch bank) , AGM AGM annual general meeting AGM n abbr (= annual general meeting) → AG f AGM n abbr (= annual general meeting) → JHV f , BP Amocc, Bloomberg, EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) A PostScript file format used to transfer a graphic image between applications and platforms. EPS files contain PostScript code as well as an optional preview image in TIFF, WMF, PICT or EPSI, the latter being an ASCII-only format. , EIS (1) (Executive Information System) An information system that consolidates and summarizes ongoing transactions within the organization. It provides top management with all the information it requires at all times from internal and external sources. , IMRO IMRO Irish Music Rights Organisation IMRO Investment Management Regulatory Organisation IMRO Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization IMRO Interactive Marketing Research Organisation , ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. , Nycomed Amersham, PE ratio, Psion, put option, rights issue, working capital. For larger firms, SRC can build bespoke be·spoke v. Past tense and a past participle of bespeak. adj. 1. Custom-made. Said especially of clothes. 2. Making or selling custom-made clothes: a bespoke tailor. vocabularies based on their specific text. The Vocabulary for City Finance works with leading speech recognition software Products, including IBM ViaVoice and Dragon NaturallySpeaking. The base speech recognition engines are built by the major suppliers using text from UK broadsheet newspapers. However, City Finance and other financial professionals, require vocabularies and sentence construction that are very different. www.src.co.uk eform Products Clean Web Data New versions of Cardiff eForms products, PDF+Forms v2.0 and HTML+Forms v2.0 allow organisations to implement online forms using industry standards, eliminating the need for proprietary plug-ins or Java applets. PDF+Forms, allows organisations to put paper forms online using the Adobe PDF file format. Users access blank forms online from standard Web servers and Web-based content management systems, and can complete forms online or print forms and complete them by hand. The Adobe PDF file format maintains the look of paper forms online and in print, giving organisations the ability to standardise their online and offline corporate forms. `PDF+Forms works with Cardiff s TELEform information Capture products to automate the collection of data, and is used to apply standardised business rules to verify and clean incoming data. TELEform also provides point & click connectivity to database, workflow systems, XML and back-end imaging archive systems. PDF+Forms v2.0 adds support for eform AutoFill, digital signatures, and email routing. The eform AutoFill feature fills in blank Absent limitation or restriction. The term in blank is used in reference to negotiable instruments, such as checks or promissory notes. When such Commercial Paper is endorsed in blank, the designated payee signs his or her name only. fields within an online form using a database lookup on the server when the user is online. Cardiff s enhanced support for digital signatures allows organisations to use the emerging electronic signing technology that is not vendor specific. www.cardiff.com Matchcode Update Capscan, supplier of pan-European address management and data capture solutions, has released true Java, CGI CGI in full Common Gateway Interface. Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program. and AS/400 versions of its Matchcode (and Zapcode) addressing software already available on Linux, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and OS/390 and Windows. www.capscan.com Mybarcode.com KTP KTP Knowledge Transfer Partnership KTP Potassium Titanyl Phosphate KTP Kartu Tanda Penduduk (Indonesian ID card) KTP Kaj Tiel Plu (Esperanto: Et Cetera) KTP KTiOPO4 Limited, have launched mybarcode.com which is Delphi based with a Visual Basic or C++ language option for those who prefer it. It is a modular solution which bridges the gap between an organisation's ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. 1 Host system and today's bar coding and RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna. technology via business rules which can either reflect or enhance the customer's current business processes. The initial releases offer two versions, one specifically for the SAP community and the other the BPCS BPCS Business Planning and Control System BPCS Better Process Control School BPCS Basic Process Control System BPCS Base/Post/Camp/Station BPCS Broadband Personal Communications System (FCC) community. Other versions are currently under development for release in the near future, BAAN and Oracle versions will come next. www.ktp.co.uk Infosort Server 5.1 and Infosort RuleBuilder 1.1 Smartlogik is launching new releases of lnfosort Server and Infosort RuleBuilder, the two main components of their document- classification solution. Infosort is designed to enable documents to be usefully classified under related subjects in order that they can be found easily. It takes a real-time feed of documents, electronically reads them and assigns appropriate categorizations to them. These documents and their assigned categories can then be added to a searchable database. InfoSort Server version 5.1 new features include: * the ability to run more than one InfoSort server on a single machine * a redesigned administration suite * a new client interface * support for XML documents * improved handling of very long documents * flexible field support. Infosorte Server version 5.1 is available on Windows NT, including Windows 2000, and operates across networks using industry standard formats. Client-side source code is provided to allow access to infosort Server from Windows, Solaris, VMS (1) (Virtual Memory System) A multiuser, multitasking, virtual memory operating system for the VAX series from Digital. VMS applications run on any VAX from the MicroVAX to the largest unit. See OpenVMS. or other platforms. Infosort RuleBuilder version 1.1 works with InfoSort Server, by supplying it with the descriptions of the categories to be indexed. InfoSort RuleBuilder builds and maintains these descriptions, also called rulebases, which list words and phrases Words and Phrases® A multivolume set of law books published by West Group containing thousands of judicial definitions of words and phrases, arranged alphabetically, from 1658 to the present. relating to the categories, and couples them with weighted rules. The weighted rules tell Infosort how to combine the evidence found in a document to make a categorisation decision. Enhancements and new features in Infosort RuleBuilder version 1.1 include: * Enhanced rulebase management facilities - with faster rulebase editing and a new printing feature * Improved administration features * A set of filters to import a variety of file formats * A rule-monitoring facility * Support for multiple categories within a rulebase file. www.smartlogik.com |
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