Website www.Scanoptics.com Type of business Private | Founded 1968 | |
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Industry Information storageComputer softwareEnterprise information management Key people Warren Fisher: CEOMitchell Wright: CFOGary Desmarais: VP EngineeringMichael Troy: VP Sales and MarketingPete Moralee: MD (UK) Scan-Optics Limited Products Intelligent data capture for document-based business process automation, enterprise search, Document Imaging, Production Scanners, High Speed Image Capture, Software and Technology Solutions, Process Workflow, Integrated Solutions, Data Recognition Headquarters Manchester, Connecticut, United States | ||
Scan-Optics LLC, founded in 1968, is an enterprise content management services company and optical character recognition and image scanner manufacturer headquartered in Manchester, Connecticut, USA.
Scan-Optics' records management, information and Data remanence and data backup and Data recovery services are supplied to government and business customers throughout North America and Europe, while its industrial high-speed Digital imaging and OCR SO-series scanners are being used worldwide.
History and Technology
Founded in the 1960s by 4 Connecticut men with financial backing from The Travelers Companies with the goal of developing the brand-new and barely functioning OCR technology, Scan-Optics was part of the technology groups enabling the transition from paper to digital - capturing the required data and delivering the information in the expected format making information accessible upon framework.
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' 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% In recent years, Scan-Optics' developments included acoustic double page detection, context edit, the integration of MICR and barcode reading into the recognition system and the introduction of grayscale capability in OCR.