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Das Ende der OCR: Wie Worterkennung alles verändert
Moderne Systeme lesen keine Zeichen – zumindest nicht einzeln. Sie lesen Wörter, Phrasen und sogar Bedeutungen. OCR hat sich zu etwas grundlegend anderem entwickelt, und dieser Wandel sorgt für ein neues Maß an Genauigkeit, Fluidität und Natürlichkeit, das frühere Generationen nicht erreichen konnten.
Genau das hat Skilja mit Lesa erreicht, unserem Deep-Learning-System auf Transformer-Basis, das so konzipiert ist, dass es wie Menschen liest: ganzheitlich, kontextbezogen und intelligent.
Auto Classification and Bias
Personal bias and individual opinions are a big issue in standardized business processing if they happen to influence the outcome of a process and the decisions made. Nobody wants to be subject to random changes in the outcome of a personal request – and yet it happens. Because humans have a bias in how they see facts, based on their education, cultural background and even the mood they happen to be in at a certain time in the week. So in addition to different persons making different decisions you can even expect that the same person makes different decisions during the week. You just look differently at a task on Monday morning than on Friday evening. The reason is so-called priming which happens to all of us day-by-day through our experience, knowledge, physical condition, context and a lot of other small factors.
Intelligent Document Processing and Enterprise Security
In the past Capture used to be almost always departmental. Capture was only allowed in a (badly lit) corner of an Enterprise mainly because no Capture system was able to fully integrate into Enterprise IT and most importantly comply with all security rules established for enterprises.
This has changed to the better in the past few years. At Skilja we have invested a lot of effort to strictly follow all security requirements so Vinna (our enterprise platform) can become a part of enterprise IT. This means on the one side that during development we are running frequent security screenings and penetrations tests to ensure utmost security for the software. For example Vinna and Skilja Software is Veracode Verified since many years. On the other hand we independently make sure to follow all defined industry standards very closely.
Happy 12th birthday Skilja
Unbelievable – but 24.01.2024 was the twelfth birthday of Skilja. Meaning that next year Skilja will become a teenager.
12 years ago we founded Skilja in the middle of the German winter with the goal to create the best possible Document Understanding or IDP (as others call it) solution. And now we look back and we are proud that we have achieved the goal – at least in our view. A lot has happened on the way.
How Meanings of Words Change
We all know that our language is fluid and words can change their meaning over time. Words get extinct and new words are created but more often existing words are adapted to new circumstances. It is interesting to see how this happens in the course of years but...
On the Benefits of Page Classification
Classification deals with the categorization of objects. In our process automation and digitization world, we often think of the objects as complete documents that need to be classified. Of course, it is important to understand what the type of a document is...
Document Separation Revisited
One of the frequently overlooked and really difficult problems in document automation, which is also really annoying in daily processing, is the automatic separation of a stack of documents into single meaningful documents and assignment to a document class. The goal would be to simply scan the whole stack and have it separated by an intelligent algorithm. Fortunately this is readily available today from the Skilja technology stack as a built in feature into the Laera classifier. This does not say it is easy. It requires quite some experience and infrastructure to manage several interdependent steps of classification and separation in a stable and reliable way. This is what Laera provides out of the box.
Confusion Matrix
Understanding the quality of an automatic classification system is crucial for its acceptance and any attempt to improve it over time. Quality means that we need to look at errors and at the recognition rate. In classification terms these values are...
Vinna 3.0 Released
We are proud to announce the release of Vinna 3.0, our open 4th generation Document Processing Platform. We created a totally new and modern UI – with an improved backend to support enterprise performance, scalability and security requirements. Process Editor and Process Monitor are completely redesigned with latest web technologies. Vinna is an open and process-oriented platform, that allows users to define a process in exactly the way as it is optimally operated in a company. The architecture of Vinna is service oriented (SOA) and the runtime is easily deployed either in the cloud (Microsoft Azure, AWS or private cloud), on premise or in mixed environments where the data storage is kept in house and processing happens outside.
Process as a Service
Imagine that you have created a powerful process for superb document automation using all kind of advanced recognition, image processing and AI technologies available. With these technologies it is possible to automate almost any document driven process that involves...
IDP: Solving bot illiteracy in the digital workforce – Part 2
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Jupp Stöpetie In this post we examine the role of Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) relative to Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and how these technologies drive Digital Transformation when combined. Part one was looking at...
IDP: Solving bot illiteracy in the digital workforce – Part 1
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Jupp Stöpetie In this post we examine the role of Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) relative to Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and how these technologies drive Digital Transformation when combined. In part one we...
Reading Medical Reports
Medical Reports are complex documents that are written by doctors who use their specific language and style to express not only facts but also hypotheses and suggestions. They are intended to be read by other doctors or experts who have a deep knowledge of the subject...
The Magic of Online-Learning
Wouldn’t it be nice if your AI enabled document processing system would continuously take the input from user interactions and use this information to improve the quality of recognition over time? And nobody would have to take care of this – even in the case of...
Vinna 2.0 Released
We are happy to announce the release our new version Vinna 2.0, the 4th Generation Document Processing Platform.Since the last major release, a year ago, we have worked hard – and a big thanks to the team – to focus on enterprise features that make Vinna’s...
What’s another Year?
Now going into our seventh year of concentrated product development we at Skilja still are full of innovation and ideas to create something really unique. In the last few months our main subject “Artificial Intelligence” has become an absolute top topic in the news –...
Happy Birthday Skilja!
On a cold winter day in January 2012 we created Skilja – the Document Understanding Company – and incorporated it in Freiburg/Germany. Unbelievable, that 5 years have passed since then and we celebrated our 5th birthday on January, 20 2017. Happy birthday, Skilja! The...
Vinna – 4th Generation Document Processing Platform
We are glad to introduce the latest version of our software “Vinna”. Vinna is Icelandic and means “work” and this name is self-explanatory as Vinna is a fourth generation platform for digital document processing. Vinna was presented last week at the open house...
Give Workflow a Miss – Go for Real Automation
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Richard Cop from Interact Consulting Give workflows a miss: A provoking claim in the age of business process automation. Because whenever we think of the automated processing, we think in categories of how information gets...
A New Approach to OCR Quality
The approach to improve OCR on a given document is very similar to human capabilities of adapting their cognitive capabilities to a specific sample. Just imagine that you see a document with very difficult handwriting. In the begining you will be able to distinguish...