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FBI Selects Captiva's InputAccel for Major Document Capture Initiative; Records Management Division to Streamline Access to Information at FBI Field Offices.


SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay.  -- Captiva Software Captiva Software is now part of EMC Software Group, a division of EMC Corporation.[1] Captiva makes software solutions for document information processing and data capture from paper and electronic documents and provides related services.  Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ
 in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on
:CPTV CPTV Connecticut Public Television ), a leading provider of input management solutions, today announced that the Records Management Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), division of the U.S. Dept. of Justice charged with investigating all violations of federal laws except those assigned to some other federal agency.  (FBI) has selected InputAccel(R), Captiva's award-winning document capture software, to transform documents and photographs used in criminal and terrorism investigations into electronic content for more streamlined access at FBI field offices The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) operates 56 field offices in major cities throughout the United States and in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Many of these offices are further subdivided into smaller resident agencies which have jurisdiction over a specific area. . The total value of the software, services and hardware portion of the contract to Captiva exceeds $2 million to date.

The Records Management Division will utilize InputAccel in its Document Conversion Lab (DocLab) and National Name Check Program centers to capture digital images of hard copy files and photographs. Through optical character recognition optical character recognition (OCR), method for the machine-reading of typeset, typed, and, in some cases, hand-printed letters, numbers, and symbols using optical sensing and a computer.  (OCR OCR
 in full optical character recognition

Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry.
) technology, index data for retrieval purposes will be extracted and the images will then be made accessible to field offices across the organization. The FBI expects that InputAccel will help increase DocLab's daily image throughput from approximately 10,000 images per day to more than 200,000, with an eventual goal of more than 600,000 images per day.

DocLab's use of InputAccel is part of an ongoing effort to update and modernize the FBI's records management systems. Increasing sophistication so·phis·ti·cate  
v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates

v.tr.
1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly.

2.
 and volume of criminal, terrorist and foreign intelligence elements have heightened the need for timely information capture and coordination of related investigative activities within the FBI, and between the FBI and other intelligence agencies.

"Much of the critical information the FBI utilizes in investigations is on some type of paper media, and capturing that information and transforming it into an electronic format is the key to rapid information exchange. InputAccel will enable FBI's DocLab to capture millions of additional documents and quickly make critical information available to Bureau field offices, joint task forces and the FBI Headquarters," said Howard Dratler, Captiva's Executive Vice President of Field Operations. "The FBI is another great federal government customer win for Captiva, and we were pleased to work with our federal distribution partner Promark Technology on this sale."

Dratler added that the FBI selected Captiva's software due in part to multiple customer references proving InputAccel's ability to quickly and accurately capture and process upwards of a million images per day. The Bureau also chose InputAccel for its load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them  capability, which will enable DocLab to simultaneously operate ten or more OCR servers for maximum productivity in analyzing the content contained within the documents.

About the FBI Records Management Division

The FBI established the Records Management Division in 2002 to update and modernize all of the FBI's records management control systems. The division provides executive direction and full-time oversight for all records policies and functions, and consolidating all records operations to ensure consistency, thoroughness and accountability. To learn more about the FBI Records Management Division, visit www.fbi.gov.

About Captiva Software Corporation

Captiva Software Corporation (NASDAQ:CPTV) is a leading provider of input management software solutions. Since 1989, the company's award-winning products have been used to manage business critical information from paper, faxed and scanned forms and documents, Internet forms and 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.
 data streams into the enterprise in a more accurate, timely and cost-effective manner. These products automate the processing of billions of forms and documents annually, converting their contents into information that is usable in database, document, content and other information management systems. Captiva's technology serves thousands of users in insurance, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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, government, business process outsourcing Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the contracting of a specific business task, such as payroll, to a third-party service provider. Usually, BPO is implemented as a cost-saving measure for tasks that a company requires but does not depend upon to maintain its position in , direct marketing and other markets. For more information, visit www.captivasoftware.com.

InputAccel is a registered trademark of Captiva Software Corporation. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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