This gives VARs one comprehensive product line to manage paper, says Boersing. This increases the size of their sales and enables VARs to increase their services by increasing their ability to re-engineer business processes. Mitek has historically been a developer of handprint recognition and check processing software. Mitek recently released Doctus , its entry into the forms processing marketplace. CogniForms , a module to process unstructured forms such as invoices, can be added to Doctus .
Most invoices contain the same type of information.
However, there is no standard layout for an invoice, says Boersing. This makes it hard to apply standard recognition technology, which is designed around locating fields of information on documents. So, in accounts payable and receivable imaging applications, invoices are typically indexed manually. CogniForms uses neural network technology to recognize forms from their basic structure. Once the form is recognized, character recognition techniques can be applied to automatically extract image indexing information, says Boersing.