You can extend the value of your ECM investment by implementing imaging and automated forms processing solutions, as per your organizational requirements. Increasingly, electronic document images have the same legal status as a paper document.
Alfresco integrates with various image capturing systems to provide flexible and intelligent form processing. This results in greater control and management of crucial information and documents, within and outside the firewall. These joint solutions enable you to include forms and the captured data as content types that can be version controlled, repurposed, and integrated into workflows, and managed by the ECM environment. This simplifies compliance with enhanced archiving, and audit capabilities. You can also reduce costs of printing, storing, and distributing paper forms.
You can implement various solutions by leveraging the Alfresco's content management and business process management features. Some are listed below for your reference:
- Order fulfillment
- Claims processing
- Underwriting
- Loan origination
- Contracts management
- Accounts payable managing checks and invoices
More information about the solution is covered in Chapter 13, Implementing Imaging and Forms processing of the recent Alfresco book.
This chapter helps you to implement an end-to-end solution by collecting the paper documents, and forms; transforming them into accurate, retrievable information; and delivered into an organization's business applications. The information then, is full-text searchable, and goes through the various approval workflows, based on the organization's defined business process management.
By the end of this chapter you will have learned how to:
- Connect scanner to network drive, and map it to the Alfresco's space
- Specify a business rule to automatically extract metadata from the scanned document
- Define and execute a workflow process for scanned documents
- Bulk upload scanned documents into the Alfresco repository
- Integrate OCR utilities into Alfresco
- Integrate and use Kofax Ascent Capture
- Integrate Alfresco with eCopy-enabled scanners
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