US-based digital document management company Oce has introduced PRISMAscan Convert, a new document conversion software that transforms paper documents into digital format.
The company claims that the new conversion software uses an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine to convert scanned documents into editable files compatible with electronic data distribution and archiving management applications.
The new conversion software could scan documents to a variety of formats for use with many applications, including Oce PRISMAarchive for long-term archiving, Adobe Acrobat (PDF image, searchable or archive files); Microsoft Office applications (TXT, RTF, CSV, XLS, PPT), image editing applications like TIFF, JPEG and PDF images, Web browsers like Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox and systems that import XML files.
The company said that with the new conversion software, customers could convert a range of document formats, including TIFF, JPEG, and PDF, created on standard black & white or color scanner. The OCR engine recognises printed data for text, barcodes, tables and images and processes them.
The new conversion software reportedly streamlines the paper-to-digital migration by simplifying five document management tasks which include production scanning – which enables users to process large numbers of scanned data files; digital distribution to external applications like email; connectivity to external document management – CRM and archiving systems; conversion of image files into a variety of output formats; and automatic digitisation and conversion of documents into searchable PDF or Word documents.
