Scan-Optics
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Information storage Computer software Enterprise information management |
| Founded | 1968 |
| Headquarters | Manchester, Connecticut , US |
Key people | Jeff Mitchell: CEO Tom Revall: CFO Adam Stahl: VP sales and marketing John Kingdon: MD (UK) Scan-Optics Limited |
| Products | Intelligent data capture for document-based business process automation, enterprise search, document imaging, production scanners, high speed image capture, process workflow, data recognition |
Number of employees | 51-200 employees |
| Website | www.Scanoptics.com |
Scan-Optics LLC, founded in 1968, is an enterprise content management services company and optical character recognition (OCR) and image scanner manufacturer headquartered in Manchester, Connecticut.
Scan-Optics' records management,[1] information, data remanence, data backup and data recovery services are supplied to government and business customers throughout North America [2][3] and Europe,[4] while its industrial high-speed digital imaging and OCR SO-series scanners are being used worldwide.
History and technology
[edit]Scan-Optics was founded in 1968 by four Connecticut men with financial backing from The Travelers Companies. Its goal of developing the brand-new and barely functioning optical character recognition (OCR) technology. Scan-Optics was one of the technology groups enabling the transition from paper to digital.
Scan-Optics developed the image dissector tube and made it commercially available, pioneered an alphanumeric handwriting recognition system, and introduced key data entry integrated with optical character recognition via a direct computer-to-computer link to accomplish image reject repair. In a 1997 study Doculabs classified Scan-Optics' intelligent character recognition (ICR) as "a significant improvement over standard ICR technology" - in tests using 3,400 forms completed from a national sample of the general population, only Scan-Optics' ICR technology yielded a field read rate accuracy of approximately 90%.[5] In recent years, Scan-Optics' developments[6] included acoustic double page detection, context edit,[7] the integration of magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) and barcode reading into the recognition system[8] and the introduction of grayscale capability in OCR.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Scan-Optics Business Process Outsourcing Service". ecmconnection.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
- ^ "DSS Corporation Selects Scan-Optics for High-End Scanning". whattheythink.com. 2006-04-25. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
- ^ Ken Congdon (2004-03-01). "Frito-Lay's Blue-Chip Scanning Solution". fieldtechnologiesonline.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
- ^ "Scan Optics Ltd". directory.aiim.org. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
- ^ "Doculabs reports on Scan-Optics ICR accuracy". kmworld.com. 1997-11-03. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
- ^ "Patentgenius: Scan-Optics Inc. Patents". patentgenius.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
- ^ "Farlex article: "Patent for Context Edit"". The Free Library. 1999-01-13. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
- ^ "Justitia: Patents by Assignee Scan-Optics, Inc". Justia.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
- ^ "Patentmaps: 20 Patents by Scan Optics – Assignee". patentmaps.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
Further reading
[edit]- Computerworld Article "OCR Proves Logical Choice for Tallying Proxies", page 21, Aug 31, 1981
- Hartford Courant News Profile of Scan-Optics, February 09, 1998
- ACBJ Business Journals article "Scan Optics Chooses Brainware Distiller to Help Process Millions of Pages Daily", March 16, 2010
- ISM news article "Scan-Optics Offers 200 Page Per Minute Production Image Scanner", May 07, 2002
- BSM article "Scan-Optics Ranks In Connecticut's 25 Best Performing Public Companies", June 21, 2004
- EMC article "Digital Legal Standardizes On Scan-Optics For High-Volume Scanning Solution", January 19, 2006