Scan-Optics

Scan-Optics LLC

Company type	Private company
Industry	Document imaging
Founded	1968;57 years ago (1968)
Headquarters	Manchester, Connecticut , United States
Key people	Jeff Mitchell (CEO) Tom Revall (CFO)
Products	Intelligent data capture for document-based business process automation, enterprise search, document imaging, production scanners, high speed image capture, process workflow, data recognition
Services	Computer data storage, computer software, enterprise information management
Number of employees	51-200 employees
Website	www.scanoptics.com

Scan-Optics LLC is an American document imaging company that provides enterprise content management, optical character recognition (OCR) software, and image scanner manufacturing. The company is headquartered in Manchester, Connecticut.

Scan-Optics' records management, ^[1] information, data remanence, data backup and data recovery services are supplied to government and business customers throughout North America ^{[2] [3]} and Europe, ^[4] while its industrial high-speed digital imaging and OCR SO-series scanners are being used worldwide.

History and technology

Scan-Optics was founded in 1968 by four Connecticut men with financial backing from The Travelers Companies. Its goal of developing the brand-new and barely functioning optical character recognition (OCR) technology. Scan-Optics was one of the technology groups enabling the transition from paper to digital.

Scan-Optics developed the image dissector tube and made it commercially available, pioneered an alphanumeric handwriting recognition system, and introduced key data entry integrated with optical character recognition via a direct computer-to-computer link to accomplish image reject repair. In a 1997 study, Doculabs classified Scan-Optics' intelligent character recognition (ICR) as "a significant improvement over standard ICR technology" - in tests using 3,400 forms completed from a national sample of the general population, only Scan-Optics' ICR technology yielded a field read rate accuracy of approximately 90%. ^[5]

By 2013, Scan-Optics' developments included acoustic double page detection, context edit, the integration of magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) and barcode reading into the recognition system and the introduction of grayscale capability in OCR. ^{[6] [7] [8] [9]}

References

1. "Scan-Optics Business Process Outsourcing Service". ecmconnection.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
2. "DSS Corporation Selects Scan-Optics for High-End Scanning". whattheythink.com. 2006-04-25. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
3. Ken Congdon (2004-03-01). "Frito-Lay's Blue-Chip Scanning Solution". fieldtechnologiesonline.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
4. "Scan Optics Ltd". directory.aiim.org. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
5. "Doculabs reports on Scan-Optics ICR accuracy". kmworld.com. 1997-11-03. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
6. "Patentgenius: Scan-Optics Inc. Patents". patentgenius.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
7. "Farlex article: "Patent for Context Edit"". The Free Library. 1999-01-13. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
8. "Patentmaps: 20 Patents by Scan Optics – Assignee". patentmaps.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
9. "Justitia: Patents by Assignee Scan-Optics, Inc". Justia.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01.

Further reading

• Computerworld Article "OCR Proves Logical Choice for Tallying Proxies", page 21, Aug 31, 1981
• Hartford Courant News Profile of Scan-Optics, February 09, 1998
• ACBJ Business Journals article "Scan Optics Chooses Brainware Distiller to Help Process Millions of Pages Daily", March 16, 2010
• ISM news article "Scan-Optics Offers 200 Page Per Minute Production Image Scanner", May 07, 2002
• BSM article "Scan-Optics Ranks In Connecticut's 25 Best Performing Public Companies", June 21, 2004
• EMC article "Digital Legal Standardizes On Scan-Optics For High-Volume Scanning Solution", January 19, 2006