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Ascent Capture is the most popular information capture application worldwide. It accelerates business processes by collecting paper documents, forms and e-documents, transforming them into accurate, retrievable information, and delivering it all into your business applications and databases.

Ascent Capture is the centerpiece of the Ascent product family – it’s a modular application that can be used right out of the box to meet the information capture needs of a specific department, and expanded with Ascent modules to meet the complex requirements of a high-volume enterprise. The open Ascent architecture makes it easy to extend the basic application to handle complex, high-volume forms processing, as well as to capture information directly from remote offices.

Ascent Capture offers unmatched compatibility with scanners and other capture devices, plus content and document management systems, workflow applications and databases. No matter what hardware or enterprise applications you choose now or in the future, you can count on Ascent Capture to ensure consistent capture, indexing and validation of your important information. Ascent Capture delivers powerful, production-level document and data capture. For document capture, it boasts the fastest, most flexible scanning and indexing solution around. For data capture, Ascent Capture can extract important information such as handprinted words, machine-printed text, bar codes and even checked boxes.

Ascent Capture can use the same powerful indexing and validation process to capture information that doesn’t start on paper, such as electronic documents, multimedia files and even XML feeds from other systems. That means your workflow or content-management system gets consistently indexed content – no matter what the source – and your enterprise gets reliable, easy and fast retrieval of all your information. If your business is moving from paper-based to digital systems, Ascent Capture can help smooth the way.

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Imagine processing all your invoices the day they are received, no matter how many batches you handle each day. Picture the benefits of recording the batch number and date received, identifying the vendor and even capturing data from key invoice fields — not manually, but automatically with a high-powered document scanner. Think of the time you would save by quickly delivering your invoices and key data field values to your online archival and retrieval systems for further processing — without a lot of manual data entry. Welcome to the power of Ascent for Payables.

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Based on the world's most popular information capture platform, Ascent for PeopleSoft HRMS enables you to easily scan incoming paper resumes at the very beginning of your recruiting workflow. Ascent uses full-page OCR to transform the scanned resumes into PDF format and delivers them directly into your PeopleSoft system. Then the powerful Mohomine technology inside PeopleSoft eRecruit extracts and classifies the information from each PDF resume.

Ascent for Health Insurance is built on the industry-leading Ascent platform and powered by Neurascript INDICIUS to deliver highly accurate data recognition and revolutionary field- and form-level validation. The powerful data recognition engine dramatically reduces the need for manual data entry, and the innovative validation capabilities ensure the accuracy and integrity of the data delivered to your claims processing and content management system. Ascent for Health Insurance takes advantage of AMA-certified CPT-2001 and ICD-9 databases to automatically detect and flag invalid procedure and diagnostic codes. The system can use your client databases or any others to validate patient and doctor data, and can use the current USPS database to authenticate facility and physician addresses. It can also perform crosschecks on fields to further ensure accuracy. The overall result is faster, more accurate claims processing.

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Ascent Xtrata uses exclusive Xtrata technology from Kofax to make forms processing successful under real business conditions. With Ascent Xtrata, you can use your existing forms and business processes because setup is a breeze. It automatically identifies all zones on a form. You just click on a zone, or use the lasso to select multiple zones, and Ascent Xtrata instantly suggests the associated field names and recognition profiles. That means you can add new forms or make changes to an existing form without intervention from an expert.

You can also add new scanners, make copies of a form and accommodate normal scanner wear without system updates or manual processing. Ascent Xtrata's superior image registration makes it possible by automatically adjusting for stretched or scaled images. That means more forms are successfully processed, more information is automatically captured, and less manual data entry is needed.

Xtrata using a single screen to manage the sample pages and forms setup of a multi-page form. Click the screenshot to view an enlarged picture.	Use Ascent Xtrata to easily identify zones and assign sample pages. Click the screenshot to view an enlarged picture.

 

"Ascent Xtrata is the most sophisticated document extraction software reviewed by the CRN Test Center." -- Computer Reseller News, Feb. 16, 2004

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The Ascent Collection Server is the universal front door to Ascent Capture. It accepts documents from anywhere using the Internet or a network connection and delivers them to Ascent Capture. Any third party application, digital copier, or multi-function peripheral (MFP) can be integrated into an Ascent Capture solution for ad hoc and batch-oriented document capture.

The Ascent Collection Server allows any client application to obtain Ascent Capture batch and document information. Additionally, clients can submit documents (images, e-documents, and index data) to the Ascent Collection Server which delivers them to Ascent Capture. Because the Ascent Collection Server plugs into Ascent Capture, the world’s most popular information capture platform, you get an enterprise system that can collect any document, transform it into accurate, retrievable information, and deliver it into your enterprise content management system. You can even deliver information into multiple systems at the same time.

Everyone knows how to use a Web browser and an office copier. Now, Ascent Ricochet, the latest browser-based extension of Ascent Capture, enables any knowledge worker to employ these simple tools to initiate production document workflow for the important document packages they help create. No one knows more about a document than the people who created it or who work closely with the information it contains. Thus, they are the best qualified to index it for later retrieval and processing. Ascent Ricochet empowers these content experts to initiate this workflow faster and more accurately than ever before.

The Ascent Advanced Forms Modules are powered by Neurascript INDICIUS and integrate seamlessly into Ascent Capture, giving you all the components you need to convert scanned forms into clean and verified data:

Advanced Forms Recognition module offers high accuracy on a wide range of forms, including documents that were previously considered unsuitable for automatic processing. This powerful module can capture semi-structured and tabular data, even when tables dynamically change format or extend over multiple columns or pages.

Advanced Forms Corrector is a high-volume data-correction module that lets you confirm or correct any characters that were rejected by Recognition. This module is built for speed and ease of use: it enables correction of individual characters, giving you fast and efficient data repair with minimum keystrokes. The Corrector’s screen layout includes last-field and next-field viewing, proven in customer trials to yield greater throughput and improve correction of rejected characters.

Advanced Forms Completion module is ideal for high-volume validation, delivering clean and verified data to the Ascent Release module. It can be configured for a number of data capture scenarios, such as reviewing data captured by Recognition or verifying keyed data from other sources. In trials, Completion has reduced data entry times by 50 percent, even when compared with custom applications.

Many organizations rely on document-driven business processes that originate at a remote location but must be completed elsewhere. The Ascent Capture Internet Server is a proven, reliable method for accelerating and reducing the cost of these remote business processes.

ACI Server is an optional module in the Ascent family that enables you to capture documents and data from your organization's remote offices directly into your central Ascent system. ACI Server also enables remote scanning, indexing and data capture via connections ranging from dedicated lines to inexpensive dial-up service as well as corporate intranets.

In a typical ACI Server installation, each remote site is equipped with a standard Ascent Capture scan station for imaging batches of documents. Additional Ascent workstations can be included for data extraction, indexing or even validation.

When the scanned batches are completed, they are transmitted to the central ACI Server over a corporate network or even the Internet, and then routed to the appropriate Ascent Capture stations on the central network. The inbound documents can be processed through additional queues such as advanced forms processing or additional validation. Finally, the images and data are delivered into any of nearly 100 content management, database or line-of-business systems.

You've heard it said that we live in an electronic age, but paper still fills your desktop and overflows your file cabinets. You keep hardcopies of signed work orders, completed insurance papers, handwritten notes, checks and so on. Sometimes you even file them. But finding them again later means digging through drawers, folders and piles on your desk. The search is tedious and often unsuccessful. And if you do find the documents, sharing them involves copying, faxing or "snail mailing" them.

A desktop scanner can help solve your paper problem, but a real solution requires more than a piece of hardware. And most "out of the box" personal scanning software isn't up to the task. What you need is a simple but professional-strength solution that lets you easily capture your personal paper documents in an electronic format, logically file them on your PC and easily retrieve them again later with just a few keystrokes.

Enter Capio. Designed specifically for the personal productivity of business users, Capio helps you better manage your work files by capturing and organizing paper documents as high-quality PDF files. Searching for your documents takes just seconds, and sharing them through e-mail is a breeze. Capio uses VRS
(VirtualReScan) - the de facto standard for scanning productivity - to guarantee the best image quality without rescanning or tinkering with settings. Capio even gives you the ability to edit an image long after you scanned it. You can correct the brightness and contrast of an image, or clip out an area of an electronic document. All from a single screen.

Capio's clear, simple interface makes it one of the easiest personal capture solutions on the market. It lets you decide the best way to manage your filing system. And it requires no
technical expertise or IT assistance to install, set up and support.

So when a customer calls with questions about an invoice, or Accounting asks for another copy of your expense report, or your boss needs that article about your main competitor - whatever paper document you need, you can find it and send it in seconds. And save yourself time and paper cuts.