PSIGEN Introduces Intelligent Redaction to its PSI:Capture Suite of Products

IRVINE, Calif., September 8, 2009 - PSIGEN Software, Inc., the leader in advanced capture and scanning solutions, today announced the release Intelligent Redaction within their capture products.

The Intelligent Redaction feature provides the ability to mask confidential information in scanned legal or medical documents. The product can search scanned documents for confidential information, like a Social Security Number, and “black out”, or redact the terms. As an option, the application can also mask set templates for specific section of forms and documents.

"Although manual redaction can be used, Intelligent Redaction is not only faster, but less error prone. This feature allows customers who provide services, especially in the Legal, Medical and Banking sectors, to quickly comply with strict information redaction requirements. " said Bruce Hensley, President of PSIGEN Software.

The Intelligent Redaction feature is just one of many new features in PSI:Capture 3.5.2, including triggered image processing, SharePoint WebDav folder monitoring and Advanced Data Extraction. PSIGEN will continue to innovate and provide valuable cutting edge solutions and features for scanning to SharePoint, unstructured forms processing with Advanced Data Extraction, and industry specific document imaging workflows.

About PSIGEN
PSIGEN Software is the innovative leader in advanced capture and document imaging solutions. For more than 14 years, PSIGEN has provided software to improve all the processes around the conversion of paper to digital documents. The solutions focus on cost reduction, flexibility, standardization, and improved efficiency. PSIGEN delivers these solutions through a network of resellers and distributors in the US and abroad. For more information, visit www.psigen.com.

"PSIGEN" is a registered trademark in the US, the EU and other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks belong to their respective owners.
CONTACT: PSIGEN Sales and Marketing: Stephen Boals, Vice President of Sales, 949-916-7700 x230.

PSIGEN Signs Distribution Agreement with Deltalink Consulting CC

PSIGEN Signs Distribution Agreement with Deltalink Consulting CC -Partnership Expands Company's Growing Distribution Network to Southern Africa

IRVINE, Calif., May 21, 2009 -- PSIGEN Software, Inc., the innovative leader in advanced capture solutions, today announced it has signed a distribution agreement with Deltalink Consulting CC, a leading distributor of Document Management, Capture and Scanning Hardware in Southern Africa.

"The addition of Deltalink to our growing distribution network provides us with a solid technical and business partner in the region of Southern Africa," said Stephen Boals, Vice President of Sales at PSIGEN, “Their focus on Microsoft SharePoint, and experience in Document Management will provide valuable ECM solutions in their market.”

"We are excited about the benefits that our partnership with PSIGEN will bring to the local market. With PSI:Capture we are now in a position to offer an industry-leading capture solution to all organizations ranging from small companies to the largest corporate enterprise in South Africa and neighbouring countries. To date we have been unable to provide a suitable capture solution to resellers and end-users of either Microsoft SharePoint or MFP devices, both pervasive technologies in our market. With PSI:Capture we feel comfortable that we will be able to meet the diverse requirements of these and the large number of other capture users with a single product," said Gerrie Terblanche, CEO at Deltalink.

About PSIGEN

PSIGEN Software is the innovative leader in advanced capture and document management solutions. For more than 14 years, PSIGEN has provided software to improve all the processes around the conversion of paper to digital documents. The solutions focus on cost reduction, flexibility, standardization, and improved efficiency. PSIGEN delivers these solutions through a network of resellers and distributors in the US and abroad. For more information, visit www.psigen.com.

"PSIGEN" is a registered trademark in the US, the EU and other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks belong to their respective owners.

CONTACT: PSIGEN Sales and Marketing: Stephen Boals, Vice President of Sales, 949-916-7700 x230.

PSIGEN Software, Inc. releases version 3.5.1 of its powerful Advanced Capture Software

PSIGEN Software, Inc. released version 3.5.1 of PSI:Capture. This latest revision of the powerful product provides an enhanced feature set for migrating to Microsoft SharePoint through a web services integration which allows dynamic document library and column creation, along with SharePoint site configuration import. The new release also provides automatic QA functionality that allows combining and sorting documents based on index fields, Zone OCR enhancements, Google Tesseract OCR Engine option, OMR enhancements and batch import and export for transporting batch sets.

The full PSI:Capture 3.5.1 enhanced feature set can be found here:

PSI:Capture 3.5.1 New Features

PSIGEN Software, Inc. is located in Irvine, CA. The company has been advancing document imaging since 1995.

www.psigen.com
(949) 916-7700

OMR and Microsoft SharePoint

So, with SharePoint there is always a challenge in how to provide a scanning and capture onramp to the masses. How do we enable our MFPs to scan to our SharePoint Server? How can I scan to WSS with my copier? In Document Imaging, there are many simple ways to allow a standardized, efficient way to capture documents. One of the challenges with copiers, is that they only provide basic scanning capabilities. The key here is to empower your end users with some type of automated way to get information into the end repository. Here is one of the best ways I have seen, and there is a video on how to use routing cover sheets with SharePoint:

Simple Scanning and Capture to Microsoft SharePoint

New PSIGEN Site Up and Running

New site with info about advanced capture and scanning for SharePoint and other back-end repositories.

Scanning and Capture for Microsoft SharePoint

The Power of Advanced Capture

In any Document Management or Enterprise Content Management System, there are four basic components: Hardware, Capture, Archive and Search and Retrieve. So what is the most important piece? Everyone nowadays seems to have the hardware. All of the copiers today have scanning capability, with the newer ones scanning at 70 pages per minute. The simplest archive is a series of folders on your server or workstation. And with files on the network, Windows Search, or the search capabilities within Abode allow you to find what you are looking for quickly (sometimes).

For the more advanced organization, they may have a Document Management System, or utilize Microsoft SharePoint for their archive and search and retrieve functions. But what seems to be lacking in most organizations, is a structured, automated way of capturing files. The argument of this BLOG entry is that Capture is the most important piece to any ECM or DM System.

As mentioned before, when we look at just about any office or organization today, they are scanning with a copier or desktop scanner. But inevitably, they take their paper mess and recreate it digitally. Why? No standardization in the process. Joe scans his files to his email and stores them in Outlook folders, Betty scans to her My Documents on her laptop, and uses a convoluted naming scheme that only she can decipher. They take their paper problem, and create a huge problem for IT. Disparate archives now pose a disaster recovery problem, along with the issues of accessibility.

So what is the answer? Advanced Capture. Advanced Capture applications provide the ability to set structure, and harness the capabilities of all the scanning hardware within the organization. They can provide standardization and structure, along with fantastic efficiency improvements. Take for example, PSIGEN's PSI:Capture. With its Microsoft SharePoint Migration feature, and auto-import capability, you can set all your scanning copiers to scan to a processing folder. Utilizing the barcode routing capability, you can create cover sheets for each library within your SharePoint site. When you scan, the software will pick up, process, rename and folder files automatically. The end result is a standardized folder structure, standardized naming scheme, and a searchable PDF all within your SharePoint site.

The other major contributor to efficiency within Capture applications is the ability to use separation technology. I see it all the time...the office that has 20 documents to scan. They walk up to the copier, and scan them one by one; a very time consuming process. With document separators, you can scan the entire stack and let the software split the documents, rename and folder them. Let the technology do all the hard work!

For more info on improving your scanning work flow, go to www.psigen.com.

PSI:Capture 3.5 - The Killer App

Every now and then, a new version of software comes along that just amazes you. In selling Document Management and Capture applications, I am constantly looking for features to help my customers make their processes more efficient. PSIGEN's PSI:Capture 3.5 is packed with some phenomenal features to help make the scanning and capture process more streamlined, and reduce the time it takes to index scanned documents.

The new version includes OCR Assisted Indexing, or what I will call OAI. OAI allows the user to "point and click" at pertinent information on the scanned document, and automatically populates the index field. For example, a scanned invoice can be quickly indexed by just pointing at the invoice number, invoice date and vendor...no typing necessary. The software takes this function a step further, and can auto-highlight specific information on a document based on a pattern of characters.

Feature detection is a powerful tool that allows the application to intelligently identify features on a page, like say, a logo. This detection allows the ability to separate documents based on certain features, so you can "tag" the first page of every document by the logo in the right corner. No more inserting separator sheets!!! Along the same lines, you can now separate based on zone OCR values, or particular words on the front pages of your documents.

The Zone OCR function in version 3.5 has now been greatly enhanced. The product now includes the ability to anchor, based on a barcode, patch code or from the left corner of the document. This ensures repeatable zoning across scanned documents. You can now images process individual zones to remove lines, and clean up the image before OCR. The image processing enhancements include line removal, autoinvert, and the ability to run them within the Quality Assurance module.

The product now includes Optical Mark Recognition. To give you an example, in playing with the software, I created a SharePoint Routing Sheet for an accounting department. On the routing sheet I have 4 boxes, one for invoice, po, contract and correspondence. When I scan the document, the application will read which box I have checked, and then autopopulate an index field, rename the file, and route it to the appropriate SharePoint Document Library and folder!!! Wow!!

This is just an overview of the high points, but the new version also includes the following: Separation Profiles, Device Profile import and export, PDF/A OCR output, new barcode types, and greatly improved database write/read performance.

I will be covering each of the features in a separate post with screenshots in the coming weeks. You can grab some more info from www.psigen.com or on www.scanguru.com.