Tarrytown, NY - May 15, 2006 -
Datacap
announced today the release of Taskmaster Web Service, a new approach for users
to capture document images via the Internet. Whether an organization is running
FileNet Capture, Kofax Ascent Capture or another capture product, they can
expand their capture capabilities whenever and wherever needed simply by calling
the Web service.
"Datacap continually leverages key
technology developments to provide maximum flexibility to organizations looking
to increase data-entry and document-indexing efficiency and accuracy," said
Datacap CEO Scott Blau. "Taskmaster Web Service brings a whole new level of
flexibility. Users can take advantage of Datacap's procedural rules engine to
control document identification, field recognition, data validation, and export
formatting - all without any programming."
Taskmaster Web Service takes
advantage of the Service Oriented Architecture trend to decouple traditional
forms processing and advanced document capture capabilities from the capture
platform. This makes it easy to set
up rules that will run exactly the same on documents whether they are scanned
locally or remotely, whether they are processed in one capture system, such as
Kofax Ascent Capture, or another, like Datacap Taskmaster. Simplified rules administration -
without programming - means less administrative overhead for a capture
application. Centralized,
Web-service based processing also makes it easier to monitor multiple capture
applications efficiently sharing the same resources.
Those
using FileNet Capture, Kofax Ascent Capture or other capture platforms can use
Taskmaster Web Service to add enhanced capture capabilities not standard in
their existing platforms. As user
needs change, organizations can add the capture pieces they need via the Web
Service. Taskmaster Web Service integrates with third party capture platforms
and can easily provide added capabilities, saving organizations the expense and
effort of replacing their existing capture investment.
An
early adopter of the Taskmaster Web Service has built an application that sends
fax images to the Service to capture addressee information with advanced
recognition. The fax management
application was developed independently as a Microsoft .NET executable. The functionality for natural
handwriting recognition was added with only a few lines of code to call the Web
Service and interpret the results.
Taskmaster Web Service is available immediately. For pricing and system requirements, contact Datacap at sales@datacap.com.