Datacap (an IBM Company), a privately owned company, manufactures and sells computer software, and services. Datacap's first product, Paper Keyboard, was a "forms processing" product and shipped in 1989. In August 2010, IBM announced that it had acquired Datacap for an undisclosed amount.[1][2]

Datacap Inc. - An IBM Company
Company typePrivate
IndustryComputer software
Founded1988 Datacap Inc.
FounderScott Blau, Noel Kropf
HeadquartersTarrytown, New York United States
Key people
Scott Blau: CEO, Noel Kropf: CTO
ProductsDocument capture and Process Automation
Number of employees
55 (2009)

Overview

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Datacap sells products through a value-added distribution network worldwide. The software is classified as "enterprise software", meaning that it requires trained professionals to install and configure. Although the Company has focused on providing solutions[buzzword] for scanning paper documents, most recently Company materials have emphasized customer requirements to handle electronic documents ("eDocs"), documents being received into an organization electronically (usually email).[3]

Datacap claims that its software is unique because of the rules engine ("Rulerunner") used for processing inbound documents, including performing the image processing (deskew, noise removal, etc.), optical character recognition (OCR), intelligent character recognition (ICR), validations, and export-release formatting of extracted data to target ERP and line of business application.

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References

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  1. ^ "IBM Acquires Datacap" (Press release). IBM. 2010-08-10. Archived from the original on August 15, 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-10.
  2. ^ "IBM Acquires Data And Document Capture Software Company Datacap". TechCrunch. 10 August 2010. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  3. ^ "IBM Datacap Reviews, Ratings, and Features - Gartner 2021". Gartner. Retrieved 2021-12-24.