ABBYY FineReader vs. Tungsten Capture

The most common scenario is a need to do a high-level OCR-scan of a document followed by heavy editing. I believe that FineReader is in its own league in that regard, and there is no single reason why would someone choose an alternative soft for the purpose.

Another common scenario is a need of detailed comparison of pdf documents. A massive help!

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If there is a desire to extract text from emails, documents, spreadsheets, and faxes this is the perfect platform for that. The only thing it does, extracting information, it does well. External information in terms of flat files, databases, and web services can be tied into the platform as well to allow line item matching, address validation, and other features that make it just an overall great ingestion system.

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• Read and analyze complicated documents
• Automatically recognize tables and charts
• Convert any documents into various common formats

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• One of the things we relied on Kofax was its connector with Oracle UCM and Filenet. It was easy to configure batch classes and set up release scripts to UCM or Filent
• One other aspect of it was validation scripts based on external Oracle databases. It was very helpful.
• After removal of dongle, it became easier to maintain the software.

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• Conversion to MS Word (formatting accuracy issues occur)
• Conversion to MS Excel (formatting accuracy issues occur)

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• Kofax Capture's interface is antiquated and could use a refresh. An attempt was made two versions back to add ribbons and modernize the interface but anything below the first level looks and feels like a tired application.
• Bugs that have existed in the platform for years are still prevalent and there is no priority to fix them. Features and critical bugs are regularly fixed but simple nagging ones that can cause a development project to close and lose all work is commonplace.
• Licensing, while reasonable for lower volume solutions, becomes expensive once a project reaches a certain threshold. Ensure future planning capacity is done before purchasing to make sure it's a cost effective solution.

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Cost of Kofax is high, however the cost to benefit scenarios always pay off.

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It's good.

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Haven't really used their support yet

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While Adobe Reader can identify documents and convert them to some other various formats, it cannot process the documents to identify tables for use in Excel. We only had success by letting Adobe read a file for any identifiable text but it wasn't always accurate. FineReaders ability to handle hundreds of pages at once felt leaps and bounds above Adobe

Incentivized

Kofax Capture was less expensive than the IBM product and was easier to use than both IBM and Amazon in my opinion. The unlimited scripting of Kofax Capture allowed us to fully integrate the tool into our business processes to improve our automation and reduce errors. We also looked at a product from Nuance but at the time decided to eliminate it from our evaluation.

Incentivized

• Great positive impact on productivity as it helps to avoid spending so much time scanning or editing documents
• Staff use the time saved with this tool on the substantive tasks of their position
• Our objective, being a public institution, is of a benefit to the population and not commercial, therefore everything that we add to perform efficiently and effectively, our work is always well appreciated.

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• We were able to decrease personnel expenditures as there was not a need for individuals to index documents prior to incorporating them into the record.

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