New Feature: Taskmaster Fingerprint Service

Meeting The Need For Speed 

The Fingerprint is Datacap’s innovation for storing data locations and business rules for specific document types. For example, each vendor in an Accounts Payable application is represented with a Fingerprint that “remembers” the vendor ID number, remit address, and all the locations for key data on their invoice, including the formatting and column headers for line item details.

Whenever Taskmaster begins processing a batch, it loads up the Fingerprint Library to check each new image for matches. If it doesn’t find a match, the Verify Operator can populate the fields once, using data location rules and Click N Key, and then initiate a new Fingerprint, which will automate data entry the next time that vendor submits an invoice.

Now Datacap adds a new improvement to speed performance, called the Fingerprint Service. It was developed in support of our customers who have thousands of Fingerprints in their library, and require faster throughput.

The Fingerprint Service provides two distinct benefits: First, the Fingerprint Service loads the Fingerprint Library only once when the first batch of documents is processed, rather than for each batch. Second, Fingerprints are matched faster, speeding processing of batches of images of any size.

When do benefits become apparent? The threshold for considering the service begins at 3,000 to 4,000 fingerprints. Of course, there are other considerations such as the daily volume. If the processing volume is low, even with a large number of fingerprints, the speed of processing may not be an issue. Conversely, a high processing volume with a moderate number of fingerprints, say 1000, would benefit by using the Fingerprint service.

The Taskmaster Fingerprint Service is an optional Taskmaster component that can be purchased separately and incorporated into your Taskmaster 7.1, or 7.5 environment. Microsoft IIS is required for the service.

For more information or to purchase the Fingerprint Service please contact your Datacap Sales Manager or Datacap reseller.

Taskmaster for Medical Claims 7.5 Now Available

All the improvements of Taskmaster 7.5 are now integrated into Taskmaster for Medical Claims. While it functions much as previous versions of MClaims, behind the scenes, the architecture is improved for better performance and stability.

The processing rules in Taskmaster for Medical Claims 7.5 are implemented in Rulemanager, in .RRA format with a Rules database. Datacap Studio is not used in this version. CMS 1500 and UB04 claims are processed in separate workflows. Individual workflows are also implemented for red dropout and black claims. They must be scanned in separate batches in this release.

The CMS 1500 workflow handles the current form for professional health services alongside the previous version of the form (the HCFA 1500). The UB04 workflow no longer handles the outdated UB92 forms. A generic 837 EDI export format is included. Licensing of the 837 export is required for production use.

This release captures and verifies the NPI (National Provider Identifier) fields and service line information fields. Details on other enhancements are in the release notes. For more information or to purchase Taskmaster for Medical Claims 7.5, please contact your Datacap Sales Manager or Datacap reseller.

Datacap and ABBYY Step Up Partnership

Abbyy Finereader To Ship Standard With Taskmaster 

One of the core beliefs at Datacap is that users should have a choice of the best available document processing technologies. That includes recognition. There are many factors in getting good recognition results, including different data types (machine print versus handprint), document types (invoices versus tax returns), and languages; even the number of documents in a batch will impact how well a recognition engine performs.

Datacap’s Rules Architecture makes it straightforward to test different recognition engines on different documents, even different fields within a document. Using Recognition Actions, a user can “test drive” engines from Nuance, Oce, ABBYY, Kadmos and Parascript, and see for themselves how well each engine performs.

Datacap has offered the ABBYY Finereader engine for several years, as an optional recognition engine in Taskmaster - meaning that it is available as an add-on for an additional license fee. Due to its speed and stability, especially with high volumes, a number of customers have opted to use ABBYY Finereader in Taskmaster for such applications as full page recognition and PDF conversion.

Now, Datacap announces that the ABBYY Finereader engine will be Taskmaster standard recognition actions and can be used by itself or with other recognition engines with “voting” between the two engines to increase accuracy even further. ABBYY Finereader will begin shipping as part of Datacap Taskmaster 7.5 SP1, due for General Release later in the First Quarter 2009.

For more information, please contact your Datacap Sales Manager or Datacap reseller.

Datacap Conference

Datacap Announces Some Changes to Adjust To The New Realities

Due to user feedback asking that we hold our event in the Spring to avoid conflicts with key ECM events, and in consideration of restricted travel budgets reflecting current economic conditions, Datacap will hold its next user conference in the Spring of 2010. We are currently scouting locations and making plans for another great event.

Datacap co-founders Scott Blau and Noel Kropf enjoy a moment of celebration at the 2008 Capture Conference

In place of a Live Conference, Datacap will hold a series of online seminars for users and resellers in 2009 and introduce a number of web-based solutions for learning about capture solutions from Datacap and exchanging feedback with Datacap on new features and functions in future releases.

To read about the 2008 Capture Conference, click here.

1. New Feature: Taskmaster Fingerprint Service
2. Mclaims Released
3. Datacap and ABBYY Step Up Partnership
4. User Conference Announcement

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