Demystifying OCR- Optical Character Recognition and its history
What is OCR and where did it come from?One of the fundamental building blocks of ccScan is using OCR or Optical Character recognition. OCR is the computer language the scrapes the text from a document so it can be used for various tasks such as naming a file or doing a lookup in the cloud. [...]
5 Myths About Document Capture and Scanning
You’re aware of the cloud. It’s ubiquitous. Box, Google Drive, Dropbox. More and more services provide a cloud-based version, or exist exclusively on the web. Having your important information available online has its share of benefits: mobility, accessibility, convenience, collaboration.But still you’re not convinced. It remains a paper world in your mind. At least in [...]
Maximize Your School’s Salesforce Deployment with ccScan: Transcript Uploads
Salesforce is rapidly becoming a standard tool for schools to streamline enrollment processes and manage information for new and perspective students. You can create a highly efficient document upload workflow for Salesforce with ccScan’s automation tools. Here is an example of how one school added ccScan to their software mix and dramatically reduced their administrative [...]
UX! – The Importance of the User Experience
Once upon a time, the product or service was everything. Your business succeeded or failed based solely on its strength. But times change.While quality of what you’re selling remains important, it’s no longer the only thing being evaluated by modern consumers. The overall user experience – or UX – is the new king.UX includes design, [...]
Relegating Paper to the Dustbin of History
You know you should. You may have already taken steps to make it happen. But it’s hard to implement: despite all our tech toys, the digital revolution is a marathon, not a sprint. It’s slow-going, but well worth it.The Gartner Group estimates that anywhere from 1-3% of revenue is spent on office printing in a [...]
The Office of Tomorrow
The office of 2016 is unrecognizable to someone who spent their career in the 1930s, 50s, 70s, or even up to and including the 90s. The definition of the word itself has changed. Where once we would picture private offices for the executives, isolated cubicles, strict work times, and a paper-based document workflow, the modern [...]