NCR Corp this week began marketing its image-based Document Management System, described as a general purpose imaging system based on microprocessor technology and open, scalable systems. Designed to enable organisations to convert paper documents to electronic form and cost-effectively manage storage, movement and processing of documents, it is pitched at claims processing, patient record-keeping, credit card application processing, personnel record-keeping, patent processing and order entry. As well as printed and type-written fonts, the character recognition software can handle hand-printed numeric characters, and NCR plans to add interpretation of machine-printed alphanumeric and handwritten numeric characters, enabling customers to automate manual data entry tasks such as document indexing. The Workflow Manager enables organisations to depict the document work flow associated with a given environment graphically and thus identify and eliminate bottlenecks and optimise system performance. System services such as facsimile, printing, scanning, character recognition, relational database operations and communications can be allocated to servers in NCR’s System 3000 client-server architecture, to configure a total image system; no price.
