Aachen-based supercomputing company Parsytec GmbH has demonstrated a new high-speed parallel processing-based optical character recognition system that is not foxed by variations in type font or size. The company says this is a major advantage over many existing systems that are either too slow – or even incapable – of providing reliable character recognition. Prosar, which is shorthand for Professional Scan and Recognition, has a 10,000 page per day output. Parsytec reckons it is ideal for bank, insurance, legal, database and government operations where it can be used to automate the keying in of information for processing, archival and retrieval. The system comprises a floor standing tower of vector parallel processors that work with a Fujitsu flat-bed scanner and output to a personal computer or departmental minicomputer. Parsytec plans to release an entire family of character recognition systems with prices starting at UKP15,000.
