Free Form Recognition Inc

Case Study

Deutscher Ring

Deutscher Ring is located in Hamburg, Germany and employs around 2,400 staff around the country. The business includes Life, Property and Health Insurance as well as Mortgages and Financial Services.

Free Form Analysis of all of Deutscher Ring's Incoming Mail.

Deutscher Ring insures 600,000 customers

Much incoming mail relates to health insurance

IBM implemented a solution using InputAccel and Prosar-Aida for automatic recognition & indexing

Architecture:

Initial pilot implemented 3000 pages per hour
Initial pilot only worked only with health insurance documents
Captured documents are forwarded automatically to a recipient automatically via the procedural control system

Milestones:

Project started in Feb 2000
Initial production implementation completed in Aug 2000
Production reached without problems

Benefits:

Local IT staff design the recognition rules - leading to better recognition rates
Extensive automatic indexing with Prosar-Aida makes both pre-sorting and manual data entry unnecessary
Immediate access to incoming mail
Multiple departments access documents simultaneously
Central archiving

Prosar^-Aida^TM from Paradatec was chosen as the free form recognition engine.

The project was implemented under the leadership of IBM in 2000 and exceeded all expectations.

Prosar-Aida is an Open technology that plugs into Kofax Ascent Capture^TM and Captiva InputAccel^TM to provide the world's most accurate paper recognition system.

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