Scan-Optics

Scan-Optics LLC, founded in 1968, is an enterprise content management services company and optical character recognition and image scanner manufacturer headquartered in Manchester, Connecticut, USA.
Scan-Optics' records management,^[1] information and Data remanence and 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

Founded in the 1960s by 4 Connecticut men with financial backing from The Travelers Companies with the goal of developing the brand-new and barely functioning OCR technology, Scan-Optics was part of the technology groups enabling the transition from paper to digital - capturing the required data and delivering the information in the expected format making information accessible upon framework.

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' 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 MICR and barcode reading into the recognition system^[8] and the introduction of grayscale capability in OCR.^[9]

References

1. ↑ "Scan-Optics Business Process Outsourcing Service". ecmconnection.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01. 
2. ↑ "DSS Corporation Selects Scan-Optics for High-End Scanning". whattheythink.com. 2006-04-25. Retrieved 2013-05-01. 
3. ↑ Ken Congdon (2004-03-01). "Frito-Lay's Blue-Chip Scanning Solution". fieldtechnologiesonline.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01. 
4. ↑ "Scan Optics Ltd". http://directory.aiim.org. Retrieved 2013-05-01.  External link in |publisher= (help)
5. ↑ "Doculabs reports on Scan-Optics ICR accuracy". kmworld.com. 1997-11-03. Retrieved 2013-05-01. 
6. ↑ "Patentgenius: Scan-Optics Inc. Patents". patentgenius.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01. 
7. ↑ "Farlex article: "Patent for Context Edit"". The Free Library. 1999-01-13. Retrieved 2013-05-01. 
8. ↑ "Justitia: Patents by Assignee Scan-Optics, Inc.". Justia.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01. 
9. ↑ "Patentmaps: 20 Patents by Scan Optics – Assignee". patentmaps.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01. 

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