AnyDoc Software, founded in 1989 as Microsystems Technology, Inc., is a company based in Tampa, Florida that develops, sells, installs, and supports enterprise content management (ECM) software which captures data from scanned documents or images into machine-readable text (and images) for back-office applications and content/document management systems. The company’s flagship product, OCR for Forms (which was later renamed OCR for AnyDoc) debuted in 1991 after two years of product research and development. The technology was adapted for a wide range of customers and solution applications and includes optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
AnyDoc develops technologies to process structured, semi-structured, and unstructured (free-form) documents, as well as classification, and workflow. Structured documents, where data appears in the same location on each form (such as a credit application or order form), use template-based technology. A template in essence, is a map telling the software where the data is located on the document and how to process that data. While template-based data capture is still widely used to eliminate the manual data entry previously required to process structured documents, it is not a feasible solution to efficiently process semi-structured documents, such as invoices, remittances, and checks. AnyDoc developed AnyApp technology to capture the data for these more complex documents and to memorize the data locations for subsequent encounters with the same document types for expedited processing.
Founded by Charles W. Jackson, AnyDoc is a privately-held company. AnyDoc Software calls itself "an industry-leading provider of document and data capture and classification solutions" and has won several awards, such as Product of the Year (Imaging and Document Solutions magazine, 1992, 1998, 1999; Transform magazine, 2001[1]), Editor’s Choice Award (Imaging and Document Solutions magazine, 1998, 1999), and the ACE Award (ECM Connection 2005–2010 [2]), and appeared on the Inc. 500[3], and Fast 500 lists.
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