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The Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry is evolving from a low-cost labor option to a flexible model for transforming industry-specific processes with targeted and increasingly automated solutions.

For many companies, document imaging technology offers the best – and perhaps fi nal – hope of controlling the ever-rising tide of paper documents that threatens to engulf them. As a result scanners, a key component of any document imaging system, are appearing with greater frequency in today’s modern offi ce. Often they are found sitting side-by-side with printers, a longstanding fi xture in just about every offi ce, modern or not.

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As they wait for an easier way to streamline the mountains of paper documents an organization generates, many businesses have continued to rely on outdated practices. In response to the broader market’s need for a practical capture solution, Kofax has drawn on its two decades of experience to introduce Kofax Express. Combining many of the benefits of legacy document capture solutions, Kofax Express is simple to install, easy to learn and integrates seamlessly with existing applications. This white paper discusses the features and benefits of Kofax Express and the ROI that can be achieved by implementing a Kofax Express solution as part of a streamlined capture environment.

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Less than a decade ago, the biggest concern of large financial institutions was whether their systems would be prepared for a changing date. The electronic concerns of Y2K were overstated, and banks were more than ready for the year 2000. Little did anyone suspect the turbulence that lay ahead—most of it paper-based.

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Business transactions can be thought of as ‘conversations,’ where information is exchanged as documents, email messages, instant messages, and fax transmissions. Effectively communicating with your customers, partners, and suppliers through any combination of these can be a significant challenge. Therefore, it should be no surprise that companies around the globe struggle to solve this problem without increasing their labor costs. This white paper proposes a 5-step approach to automate an accounts payable operation, describing the typical costs of processing invoices manually and the saving that can be achieved with each of the incremental steps.

Many organizations must contend with multiple offices, distributed work forces, and partners and customers in a wide variety of locations. These organizations can reduce costs, enhance security and improve productivity by capturing information into their business processes directly from these remote locations. This white paper explains the specific advantages of implementing remote or distributed capture with the Ascent Capture Internet Server.

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In today's global economy, information exchange is vital. Competitive advantage goes to the companies that can share information and collaborate quickly and accurately in the most cost-effective manner. Combine this with government requirements around data accuracy, security, and auditing, and your company's very survival is at stake. Accurate, timely, and efficient data capture has quickly moved into virtually every corporation's list of top business concerns. This white paper discusses the benefits of distributed capture to an organization and how Kofax can help attain those benefits.

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Document automation technologies often fall victim to their own success. The original layout of a typewriter keyboard, which is still used in virtually all keyboards today, was expressly designed to compensate for the shortcomings of the mechanics of the day. Similar issues continue to surface as the speed of automation causes problems up- or down-stream from a workflow. This white paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of methods to automatically identify the end of one document and the beginning of the next in a stack of pages, as they are scanned and automatically classifying the content of the documents.

Imagine your business without boundaries; paper and electronic forms merge; you can capture information in any form, from any place; you can exchange information more efficiently to drive business processes, ensure traceability of information, and eliminate points of failure as information is managed throughout its life cycle. The Kofax Intelligent Capture and Exchange product suite keeps information, and your business, moving.

Enhanced Bar Code

Implementing bar code technology is proven to be an efficient, lower cost solution for the automatic indexing of documents, automatic scanner control, batch separation, job control, and the overall quality assurance of images. With the release of the Enhanced Bar Code engine, Kofax is proud to continue enabling this valuable tool.

Kofax Capture Enterprise Implementation Considerations

Updated for Kofax Capture 8
This white paper covers typical concerns of an IT department regarding software implementation details and how Kofax Capture addresses those concerns.

The Challenges of Color in Production Scanning Operations

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VRS (VirtualReScan) Professional offers new exciting possibilities to effectively embrace the color capabilities of todays document scanners into your current and future business processes. This white paper covers the key business problems, key benefits and consideration in order to successfully approach color empowered document and data capture in production scanning operations.

Assessment of Kofax VirtualReScan

Doculabs found that Kofax's VRS provides a strong solution for making any document capture process more efficient, because it addresses image quality, document input range, and usability together in a single solution. Through the use of VRS, organizations can reduce their document preparation times, simplify their scanning process, and improve document image quality for OCR applications.

Build vs. Buy: Development Issues in Production Capture

Evaluate a make/buy decision for a document capture product by following the steps and filling out the worksheets. You will be able to make reasonable estimates for the cost of developing a capture application which you can then compare with the cost of purchasing a commercial product.

The Dynamics of Cost in Document and Data Capture

In both document and data capture, savings are measured in seconds, multiplied by thousands of documents. The savings can add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars over a year, especially if the capture system can also improve the quality of the scanned information.