Image Processing

Standard Data Corporation's Image Processing Center (IPC), located in Ewing, NJ, provides high volume scanning services for millions of documents each year.

 

Scanning and Imaging Services include:

There are three main objectives to information capture:

1. Capture digitized images of documents, forms, drawings or pictures and sufficient ASCII information (indexes) to retrieve them.
2. Capture the data content of the documents or forms for data manipulation
3. Capture both 1 & 2 By converting paper to electronic format, scanners are capable of capturing data via:
• optical mark (OMR)
• optical character (OCR)
• intelligent character (ICR)
• and barcode recognition.

In addition, the IPC can scan single or double-sided documents of many sizes and characteristics. Depending on the type of documents to be scanned for a particular job, SDC will utilize an array of Kodak, Siemens, Panasonic, and/or Fujitsu scanners to meet the specifics project requirements. Images and data can be transmitted to other SDC locations for additional processing over our WAN.

Based on the objectives above, information capture projects fall into three categories:

1. One-Time Batch Packets

Generally, the objective of this type of project is to capture images of documents and/or pictures and/or data associated with some document archive. These projects are usually associated with a day-forward solution for either capturing the ongoing information as either images of documents and/or pictures or computer generated documents. These projects are commonly referred to as backfile conversions.

The goal of these projects is to eliminate the entire physical archive by capturing the images of the documents. Examples of this type are:

2. Seasonal transaction packets

These projects involve the periodic capture of images and/or data from business forms. The typical objective of this type of project is to aggregate the data from the batch for information or statistical analysis.

Examples of this type are:

3. On-Going Daily Transactions

Generally, this type of project is associated with processes that require that the capture and distribution of the resultant transaction data be as close to real time as possible. The capture solution is normally a component in a wider workflow solution. These activities are normally referred to as forms processing projects.

Examples of this type are:

With the increasing interest in imaging and image-based workflow solutions, there is a very large body of emerging work to support archive image conversion associated with day-forward solutions. Standard Data Corporation is a natural candidate for this type of work since typically there is a need for significantly larger processing capacity than that afforded by the day forward equipment and labor configuration.

Data Capture

At our Image Processing Center, SDC provides high volume scanning services that include storage and retrieval of images, data capture via optical mark, optical character, intelligent character and bar code recognition.

 

Electronic Imaging is one of the most revolutionary technologies available today. Imaging eliminates the backlog sometimes caused by serial processing. Document imaging allows for parallel processing so that more than one user can have access to a pertinent document. At the same time, our imaging methodology helps to facilitate a "paperless" office environment that improves workflow. Standard Data Corporation's image processing software and services eliminates repetitive paper handling and storage by using scanners to digitize and convert documents and images to computer data. Documents and Images are electronically stored and are available for immediate retrieval by a system user.

What makes us unique is our ability through years of experience to select the best possible solution to meet the needs of our clients. With over 150 data capture stations operating on two shifts, we perform DATA ENTRY on all types of forms including:

• paper lists
• survey results
• enrollment data
• business reply cards
• medical claim forms
• electronic transmission of images.

We capture the data from image and paper manually or capture the data through automated forms processing, using optical character recognition and mark sensed recognition.

Because of our customer-focused attitude and offshore capabilities, few service bureaus can compete with the quality, speed, and cost of Standard Data manual data entry, keying both from image and paper. By utilizing production analysis reports, document and image controls, key verification, statistical quality controls and our custom document tracking system, Standard Data guarantees the reliability and integrity of our clients' data.

As automated forms processing technologies improve, SDC can, with minimal manual intervention, dramatically reduce the cost of data capture. Our experienced programmers work in partnership with our clients to design automated processing friendly forms. Through these new technologies SDC can offer short turnaround with offshore prices.

Standard Data currently has four data capture locations, two domestic (Ewing, NJ and Farmingdale, NY) and two offshore (Jamaica, W.I. and Hyderabad, India). The operators in each location are cross-trained to act as emergency backup in case of disaster recovery or unexpected surges in volume. This enables us to consistently meet turnaround times in both the image and paper environment. Our offshore facility is monitored by project management domestically. We can receive a wide variety of documents via hard copy or images created from the client's site.

Pricing is driven by volume, turnaround, characters per record, clerical and special keying instructions.