This cost-effective solution is designed to radically improve the way in which your company can respond to day-to-day business requirements. It provides a secure, digital information management solution that enables your employees and customers to collect, store, manage and retrieve electronic documentation, in a structured and secured framework.

The modular approach of the solution allows implementing single user environment and growing the solution to enterprise-wide strength.

The document is reconstructed with the electronic template once recalled by the user. In essence, there is only one template image is stored for the entire document class.

The module provides full-text searching facility on the line data. The final output can be configured and represented as text, PDF, colour JPG or XML formats, depending on complexity of the incoming file. The module also provides a flexible plug-in facility to convert information received in UNIX or Linux formats. This allows for possibility of integration with any operating system.

This COLD solution assumes no manual intervention with the received documentation, the files are processed automatically from the beginning to the end. Utilizing this sub-system provides your users with the facility to access archived information and recall the document under 5 seconds. This sub-system can also be utilized to match your line-of-business information versus received and scanned documentation.

Besides the document retrieval, the module provides the document upload facility, which will enable your clients or branches to submit their documents directly into the system utilizing the power of the Internet.

Highly customizable user-interface will provide you with the ability to modify the application to fit the corporate look-and-feel. Open-ended architecture allows integration into the module from your custom Intranet, Extranet and Internet applications. SBimage Web module is built based on Microsoft technologies and can be hosted on your existing IIS server on the remote server. Standard extension points allow development of custom features such as validation of specific document indexing process.

Bearing in mind the growth of the Internet usage in South Africa and African continent, expansion of the web-enabled applications and people’s acceptance of the new technologies, the Internet imaging is no longer a nice to have component.

OCR systems require calibration to read a specific font; early versions needed to be programmed with images of each character, and worked on one font at a time. "Intelligent" systems with a high degree of recognition accuracy for most fonts are now common. Some systems are capable of reproducing formatted output that closely approximates the original scanned page including images, columns and other non-textual components.
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In computer science, Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) is an advanced optical character recognition (OCR) or — rather more specific — handwriting recognition system that allows fonts and different styles of handwriting to be learned by a computer during processing to improve accuracy and recognition levels.

Most ICR software has a self-learning system referred to as a neural network, which automatically updates the recognition database for new handwriting patterns. It extends the usefulness of scanning devices for the purpose of document processing, from printed character recognition (a function of OCR) to hand-written matter recognition. Because this process is involved in recognising hand writing, accuracy levels may, in some circumstances, not be very good but can achieve 97%+ accuracy rates in reading handwriting in structured forms. Often to achieve these high recognition rates several read engines are used within the software and each is given elective voting rights to determine the true reading of characters. In numeric fields, engines which are designed to read numbers take preference, while in alpha fields, engines designed to read hand written letters have higher elective rights. When used in conjunction with a bespoke interface hub, hand-written data can be automatically populated into a back office system avoiding laborious manual keying and can be more accurate than traditional human data entry.
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Digital paper, also known as interactive paper, is patterned paper used in conjunction with a digital pen to create handwritten digital documents. The printed dot pattern uniquely identifies the position coordinates on the paper. The digital pen uses this pattern to store the handwriting and upload it to a computer.

Digital paper should not be confused with electronic paper.

Effectively, you write your information or notes on a normal piece of paper, using normal ink. The pen records the lines and stores that information in memory. Once you near your computer, you send information for decoding to the server, the server creates an exact copy of the document in electronic format. There is no scanning required! You can destroy the original paper you used, or send it off for storage. Have a look at this document, this document was not scanned, it was reconstructed from digital paper.