Product Overview

Do you want to scan documents at a central office or at remote sites? After you've scanned a document, do you want to index and store an image of the document, or just the data? Do you want to capture e-docs and other digital files? Whichever you need, Ascent Capture has you covered.

• For documents, Ascent Capture boasts the fastest, most flexible scanning and automated indexing around.



• For data, Ascent Capture automatically identifies forms and performs highly accurate recognition of handwriting (ICR), machine print (OCR), check marks (OMR) and bar codes to extract even the toughest data from scanned images without missing a beat.



• For scanning at remote sites, the Ascent Capture Internet Server enables distant offices to easily scan documents for processing at a central system, saving time and shipping costs and eliminating the possibility of lost documents. Ascent Capture supports scanners from various manufacturers and multi-function peripherals from Lexmark.



• And with Ascent Capture 5, you can now capture e-docs and other digital files using the same proven capture process. Ascent 5 also introduces the optional Web Validation Server, a powerful module that enables your organization to distribute Ascent's indexing and validation capabilities to anyone with an Internet connection and a standard Web browser. Ascent Capture is the only product on the market today that delivers all three key features of production capture -- document capture, data capture, and Internet capture -- in a single, low-cost application. And Ascent Capture 5 provides all these features in a package that's more flexible than ever, allowing you to customize it for the most complex, highest-volume enterprise applications.

Custom Modules

Custom modules enhance and extend your specific needs. As the "Operating System of Capture", Ascent uses custom modules to provide additional capabilities to your Ascent Capture process. A custom module such as Neurascript enhances your Ascent Capture system to deliver the most powerful forms processing available.

Internet Capture

Today, most organizations that have remote offices are forced to either ship their paper documents to a central site for scanning, scan the documents to CD, or rely on low quality fax. The Ascent Capture Internet Server offers a compelling alternative for remote capture of business documents, providing all of the following benefits:

• Low ongoing cost through the use of standard Internet connections.



• Easy installation, since remote stations use standard copies of Ascent Capture and all configuration is controlled centrally -- not at the remote sites.



• Better document integrity because paper documents never leave the originating office and can never be lost in transit.



• Fast access to data, since scanned images can be transmitted to the central site in real time and then released to your back-end system for immediate retrieval.



• Increased security because documents are never handled by personnel outside the local site.

Web Validation Server

By only requiring a browser and an Internet connection, indexing operations can be performed by part-time workers at home or by subject-matter experts in their offices or other time zones. You get validation where you need it. The Ascent Capture Web Validation Server also provides the following benefits:

• Low ongoing cost due to the use of standard Internet connections and browsers, and no per-user license fees.



• No end user installation or updating at remote sites, since the application is a Java thin client.



• Flexibility when adding new operatiors or accommodating increased workload.



• Centralized control for administrators through browser-based Remote Batch Manager.