Organization: An Art

Organization: An Art

Do you dream of walk-in, color-coded closets and labeled storage rooms? Okay, that may be a little too Type-A… but if you wish you could organize your daily responsibilities a little better, let me help. Here are a handful of practical tips, techniques and strategies for getting organized and taking control of your projects that work like a charm.

For more information on workplace productivity, check out 15 Hacks for a Better and More Productive Work Day.

Manual Redaction Risks

Manual Redaction Risks

Protecting sensitive information through redaction is gaining priority across all organizations. With regulations tightening and the growing need to publish reports online, there is more data requiring redaction. Search engines can even find information that is hidden from our eyes, requiring more attention to redacting private data. Manually identifying this sensitive information is a huge undertaking. This time-consuming task is costly with a margin of error too large for comfort.

4 Signs That You Need an Advanced OCR Solution

4 Signs That You Need an Advanced OCR Solution

As our workload continues to build and technology continues to advance, it may be time to analyze your current procedures to see if an advanced OCR solution is right for you. Applying such a solution can save valuable work hours, improve turnaround times, increase transcription accuracy and yield an exceptional ROI all while streamlining your workflow. Here are four signs that you should look into an advanced OCR software solution.

Saving Time, Money and Preventing Identity Theft – Part Four

Saving Time, Money and Preventing Identity Theft – Part Four

Each year millions of Americans are the victims of fraud or identity theft. In 1997 the Consumer Sentinel Network (CSN) was established to create a secure online database to track complaints filed with the FTC, state law enforcement agencies, and Federal agencies like the IRS and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Saving Time, Money and Preventing Identity Theft – Part Three

Saving Time, Money and Preventing Identity Theft – Part Three

The ultimate goal of your data entry process is to create an organized set of data, in a specified format, which can be easily accessed and utilized.  The success of your organization in achieving this goal depends on the quality of your data entry process.  Here is a list of Top 10 Best Practices that--if followed--can deliver an accuracy rate of 99% or higher from Invensis.net.

Saving Time, Money and Preventing Identity Theft – Part Two

Saving Time, Money and Preventing Identity Theft – Part Two

In my previous blog I talked about managing your workload, and one of the keys pieces to being able to do so is to prioritize what the most important projects are.  But how are you supposed to prioritize projects when everything is a top priority?  While working at a software company, I quickly realized that no matter how well organized the preparation – you always encounter surprises along the way requiring changes, and re-prioritization of tasks.

Saving Time, Money and Preventing Identity Theft – Part One

Saving Time, Money and Preventing Identity Theft – Part One

I searched for some tips on workload management and came across an article from Entrepreneur Magazine 6 Steps to Managing Your Overwhelming Workload. I found this article to be very valuable in managing my personal workload and I wanted to share my findings with you.

It's Not Too Late to Automate Your Data Abstraction:

It's Not Too Late to Automate Your Data Abstraction:

Abstraction is the process of reviewing data sets or documents for information that will be needed in the future for decision making. The crux of the problem is having domain knowledge that allows one to accurately and swiftly sift the important from the unimportant. When done well, the result of data abstraction is the compression of a large amount of information to its essence without loss of meaning or usefulness. Abstraction is used to manage complexity so important decisions can be made quickly and with confidence.

Data Capture: Solving the Biggest Problems

Data Capture: Solving the Biggest Problems

As I travel around the country talking to elected officials and government employees one of the most common talking points is the challenge with managing their data.  Many of them still do a lot of manual data entry while others struggle with getting accurate indexing data from submissions using electronic recording/filing.  This often leads to...

OCR Software? The Magical Tool

OCR Software? The Magical Tool

The OCR Process is the Equivalent of Magic

Imagine having a mountain of scanned and faxed paper documents in your office… oy vey—what a mess!

Now, imagine waving a magic wand over the mountainous pile of papers that automatically classifies the documents, captures the information and designates any potential confidential or otherwise important information.

Six Ways to Boost Productivity in the Office

Six Ways to Boost Productivity in the Office

In working with government offices, we have found one of the biggest pain points is the inability to find the time to manually enter or transcribe information through data entry. This is an enormous issue, considering if this information isn’t imported in accurate fashion, private information could be missed, leaving a breach of confidential data. 

OCR 101... Can You Benefit from OCR?

OCR 101... Can You Benefit from OCR?

Can you benefit from OCR?

 Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is powerful software that transforms images such as faxes and scanned documents into human readable text.  Access to this text is very powerful and can be used for many purposes.  The questions below will help you determine whether or not you could benefit from an OCR solution.

Fall in Love with Data Entry

Fall in Love with Data Entry

Why do we love data entry at Extract Systems?  Because if an organization is spending a lot of resources on data entry we can help them save both time and money with our intelligent software solution.  This can all be done while making the information available more quickly and eliminating errors/inconsistencies that often result from a manual process with multiple users.  On average, for every 10 fields you index we capture 7.5 of the fields 100% correct requiring no modifications. The remaining fields may require one or multiple characters to be swiped, highlighted, rubber banded, or manually entered.