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AnyDoc Software, founded in 1989 as Microsystems Technology, Inc., is a company based in Tampa, Florida that develops, sells, installs, and supports enterprise content management

Enterprise content management

Enterprise Content Management is a formalized means of organizing and storing an organization's documents, and other content, that relate to the organization's processes...

(ECM) software which captures data from scanned documents or images into machine-readable text (and images) for back-office applications and content

Content management

Content management, or CM, is the set of processes and technologies that support the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium. In recent times this information is typically referred to as content or, to be precise, digital content...

/document

Document management system

A document management system is a computer system used to track and store electronic documents and/or images of paper documents. It is usually also capable of keeping track of the different versions created by different users . The term has some overlap with the concepts of content management...

management systems. The company’s flagship product, OCR for Forms (which was later renamed OCR for AnyDoc) debuted in 1991 after two years of product research and development. The technology was adapted for a wide range of customers and solution applications and includes optical character recognition

Optical character recognition

Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, to computerize a record-keeping...

(OCR) technology.

AnyDoc develops technologies to process structured, semi-structured, and unstructured (free-form) documents, as well as classification, and workflow

Workflow

A workflow consists of a sequence of connected steps. It is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, a group of persons, an organization of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms. Workflow may be seen as any abstraction of real work...

. Structured documents, where data appears in the same location on each form (such as a credit application or order form), use template-based technology. A template in essence, is a map telling the software where the data is located on the document and how to process that data. While template-based data capture

Forms Processing

Forms processing is a process by which one can capture information entered into data fields and convert it into an electronic format. This can be done manually or automatically, but the general process is that hard copy data is filled out by humans and then "captured" from their respective fields...

is still widely used to eliminate the manual data entry previously required to process structured documents, it is not a feasible solution to efficiently process semi-structured documents, such as invoices, remittances, and checks. AnyDoc developed AnyApp technology to capture the data for these more complex documents and to memorize the data locations for subsequent encounters with the same document types for expedited processing.

Founded by Charles W. Jackson, AnyDoc is a privately-held company. AnyDoc Software calls itself "an industry-leading provider of document and data capture and classification solutions" and has won several awards, such as Product of the Year (Imaging and Document Solutions magazine, 1992, 1998, 1999; Transform magazine, 2001), Editor’s Choice Award (Imaging and Document Solutions magazine, 1998, 1999), and the ACE Award (ECM Connection 2005–2010 ), and appeared on the Inc. 500, and Fast 500 lists.

History

1989: Company founded
1991: Flagship product, OCR for Forms (now known as OCR for AnyDoc) introduced.
1999: European headquarters opened in Zug, Switzerland.
2001: Semi-structured forms processing technology AnyApp introduced.
2003: Company name changed to AnyDoc Software and rebranding of products.
2007: Introduction of capture workflow product, Infiniworx to auto-classify documents in a company’s workflow.
2007: Opened UK satellite office in Hampshire, United Kingdom.
2008: Opened German office in Wiesbaden, Germany.

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