GOVNEWS BLOG
Our GovNews Blog focuses on indexing and redacting methodologies and news regarding identity theft, land records management, court technology, manual data entry, workflow productivity and much more. If you are a court clerk, district or county attorney, register of deeds or secretary of state, this information may be beneficial to you.
We live in a world of instant gratification and immediate satisfaction which leads to companies wanting to speed up workflow processes to get higher quality work done, quicker. There are companies where their entire business plan is about how they can make other organization’s workflow more efficient, accurate, and up to do with the world around them.
Interesting question, isn’t it? Within the past 30 days I have had more interaction with government entities than I have had in the past 30+ years…combined. Within the past 30-days, I miraculously figured out how to accomplish the following: obtain a marriage license, apply for certified copies of my marriage license, begin my name change process, start a LLC, file for a FEIN, and setup payroll.
Early 2017, the Government Business Council and Veritas did extensive research and built a survey to figure out if federal organizations are living out “principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration.”
After all, pulling text out of an image to make it usable in other applications is an impressive trick. Don’t be content to think that’s all OCR can do for you though. By combining OCR output with other technologies, it’s possible to make substantial improvements to workflows throughout an organization. Incoming document workflows are the first and most obvious place that OCR can make a major impact.
OCR (also known as Optical Character Recognition) is defined as the mechanical or electronic conversion of images that are typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-coded text. The technology deals with the problem of recognizing and converting all different types of characters into text your computer can read.
Data breaches and data leaks have been far more common over the past few years than people know, especially within government. Governments are becoming commonly known for their data breaches throughout the years because they have been focused on making private information public in a timely fashion, but they have been relying on the manual redaction process, and too often personally identifiable information (PII) gets missed.
I’ve been hearing this phrase lately, all over the internet. In light of all of the recent web attacks, like NotPetya and WannaCry, I am beginning to think that this phrase may in fact, be true. Did you know that there are upwards of 15 million U.S. citizens that suffer from fraud and identity theft a year? And that’s only in the U.S.
I can guarantee that anybody reading this blog uses machine learning dozens of times each day without even realizing it. When you perform a web, search usingGoogle or Bing, for instance, the search engine works so well because their software has figured out how to predict searches and rank pages for you.
Last month I shared my experience at the NCSC Industry Summit. One of the major changes I’ve witnessed with the courts over the last ten years is the transition to e-filing. Whether limited to select case types, mandatory, or optional – e-filing is transforming the courts. E-filing vendors continue to enhance the services they provide to streamline the process for filers and courts.
