I.R.I.S. Group, a publicly traded company (Euronext: IRI), leader in Automatic Document Recognition (ADR), Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Electronic Document Management (EDM), announces today a worldwide partnership with LaserFiche, international leader in providing premier digital record management systems to governments and businesses.
LaserFiche Document Imaging, which recently announced its 20,000 global installation and is one of a handful of vendors approved by the U.S. Department of Defense under its world-standard 5015.2 records management certification, offers smart, scalable and easily integrated solutions for numerous business and government needs.
LaserFiche chose I.R.I.S. OCR engine as the optimum OCR technology to be integrated in its Document Imaging & Management solutions as well as its capture solutions. The decision enables LaserFiche to support up to 93 languages using a number of alphabets.
Dr. Pierre De Muelenaere, President and CEO, comments this partnership:
"The integration of a robust OCR function in a document management system is absolutely necessary to get a powerful solution able to transform scanned documents in editable files, to create PDFs and to archive, retrieve and share the information. This partnership with Laser Fiche, a leader in imaging solutions, is a great recognition of I.R.I.S. OCR performance. It reinforces I.R.I.S. position as a major player on the "Document to Knowledge" market and as a leading provider of OCR production solutions to businesses and large organisations. We're confident that I.R.I.S. technology will contribute to success of LaserFiche solutions."
Chris Wacker, senior vice president of sales and marketing for LaserFiche Document Imaging, adds: "The I.R.I.S. OCR engine is critical to our expanding international operations. We chose I.R.I.S. technology because it recognizes a very high number of foreign languages and it offers competitive speed and accuracy. Its integration into our applications was very easy and improved the global OCR capabilities of the LaserFiche solutions."
About Laser Fiche Application Suites:
Lost and misfiled paper files. Costly reproduction and distribution.
Consumption of office space better used for productive activities.
LaserFiche solutions address the range of document-related problems faced by your organization as you go about serving customers, satisfying regulatory requirements and maintaining records archives. LaserFiche solves these problems while maximizing information accessibility, records security and end-user productivity.
To get more information about Laser Fiche:
http://www.laserfiche.com
About I.R.I.S. OCR engine:
The DRS (Developer Reading System) OCR engine incorporates the latest proprietary I.R.I.S. OCR technology. It gives developers the opportunity to integrate in their software applications a "state-of-the-art " Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
Key features:
"State-of-the-art " text recognition technology.
The recognition is enhanced by linguistic databases and typographical rules Supports of up to 93 languages in several alphabets (Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and mixed alphabets).
About LaserFiche:
LaserFiche is an international leader in providing digital document management systems to governments and businesses. Quickly installed and easy to integrate with virtually any software, LaserFiche is widely recognized for its productivity advantages in busy offices and its fast return-on-investment.
LaserFiche (http://www.laserfiche.com) is a division of Compulink Management Center, Inc. in Long Beach, CA. Since 1987 LaserFiche has been helping manage documents in over 20,000 government agencies, schools, law offices, financial services companies and other businesses worldwide.
About I.R.I.S.
Image Recognition Integrated Systems (I.R.I.S.), a Belgian company founded in 1987 and listed on Euronext Brussels (IRI), is a leader in the "Document to Knowledge" market, and provides extremely high-quality solutions for converting paper documents into electronic formats for archiving, storing, managing and sharing digital information.
In 2002, the revenue of I.R.I.S. Group was Euro 41.646.974. I.R.I.S. has more than 220 employees based in Louvain-la-Neuve and Brussels (Belgium), Massy and Rueil-Malmaison (France), Luxembourg and Delray Beach (USA).
For more information on our company, our solutions or our products, visit the I.R.I.S. website at http://www.irislink.com.
To get more information:
I.R.I.S. Europe Headquarters
Press contact: Virginie Stainier
Tel: +32 (0) 10 48 75 13;
Fax: +32 (0) 10 45 34 43;
E-mail: virginie.stainier@irislink.com
Journalists can register on the I.R.I.S. Extranet web site by clicking on the link http://www.irislink.com/partners/press/index.html. They will receive a personal login and password to access the Extranet web site where more corporate and product information is available.
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