Canadian FormsProcessing Software Helps Keeps Jobs in Canada



Increasing cost pressures are driving jobs out of Canada. Instead of outsourcing manual jobs outside Canada, increases in efficiency offer better long-term solutions. IDEA TECHNOSOFT INC., a Toronto, ON based Software Developer s Forms-Processing software ixtract allows automated processing of paper forms, at costs much less than outsourced labour.

Even with ever-increasing number of wireless applications, electronic forms, and other non-paper solutions, paper forms are the most cost-effective and reliable way to capture information from multiple sources. Government agencies, market research companies, utilities, banks, insurance companies depend on paper forms to get information from their customers.

Developed from scratch by Canadian Software Development startup IDEA TECHNOSOFT INC. (http://www.ideatechnosoft.com), ixtract(http://www.ideatechnosoft.com/ixtract.html) brings efficiencies to those processes where paper cannot be eliminated. ixtract is a Paper Forms-Processing Solution. It enables quick and easy data capture of machine print, hand-print, barcodes, photographs, and signatures from scanned forms.

Typical Forms Processing Solutions involve a great deal of complexity, with expensive hardware, software, and highly skilled people to customize and implement them. They are also monolithic in nature, with almost every little modification requiring support from the software manufacturer.

The ixtract product allows quick and easy deployment, uses open source technologies, as well as Microsoft's .NET framework, along with several other high-tech Image Processing, OCR/ICR components and technologies, and allows any database engine to be plugged in at the backend. It's agent-based, plugin-oriented architecture allows for fast customization and custom enhancements at a fraction of the cost of other solutions.

ixtract is very cost-effective, with RoI in as less as 3 months. With ixtract deployed, even smaller businesses can benefit from automation of data capture, and see cost savings as high as 80% on their existing manual entry. Medium-sized and Large businesses that outsource their data entry tasks to offshore markets spend large amounts in revenue expenses in every business cycle.

Any benefits in automation and technology improvements are reaped by the offshore service bureau. When they deploy ixtract, any improvements in technology result in a direct positive influence on the bottom-line, and help keep jobs in Canada.





Canadian FormsProcessing Software Helps Keeps Jobs in Canada