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Case
Study
German
Health Insurance PLC
(DKV)
Free
Form Analysis of all Incoming Mail.
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receives 110,000 pages of paper each day.
Several
hundred document types
Prosar-Aida
recognition rates exceeded customer expectations
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Requirements
of the project were:
- Complete
analysis of all paper mail:
- Discovery
of each document type:
- Locations
of keywords as well as logos aid in analysis
- Hundreds
of possible document types to choose from
- Discovery
of insurance number
- This
can appear anywhere in a document or can be determined
by an address
- Discovery
of Insured Person
- Often
an analysis of names and insurance numbers
- Depending
on the document type:
- In
formatted texts (e.g. doctors' invoices) key information
should be located (such as "total amount" and
"date") so that related information can be
recorded (e.g. amount invoiced)
- In
documents with tables containing benefit data, the entire
table contents are captured.
- Accountancy
firm and health provider to be located
- Integration
with DKV's existing computer infrastructure:
- Semi-automatic
payment
- Link
to DKV's proprietary invoice validation software
- Make
data available for data mining
- Manual
Indexing
- For
part-recognized or unrecognized data
Prosar-AidaTM
from Paradatec was chosen as the free form recognition engine.
The project was implemented under the leadership of IBM in 2001
and exceeded all expectations.
Prosar-Aida
is an Open technology that plugs into Kofax Ascent CaptureTM
and Captiva InputAccelTM
to provide the world's most accurate paper recognition
system.
Learn
more about Prosar-Aida
Prosar-Aida
and Paradatec are trademarks of Paradatec GmbH. All other products mentioned are
registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies.
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