“Our PDF Compressor 5.3 now represents a complete conversion solution covering the entire conversion process between digital document creation to delivery and long-term archiving. It now can classify scanned documents, extract structured information, compress, and output to full-text searchable PDF and PDF/A files,” said Mark McKinney, president of LuraTech. “Also it is easy-to-implement and use giving small to mid-sized organizations a cost-effective alternative to legacy conversion software, which require a lot of time, expense and custom programming to deploy.”

Key features of the LuraDocument PDF Compressor 5.3 include:

* Free-Form Recognition – With an improved Form Recognition Module that has been expanded to include free-form recognition, users can eliminate many manual processes, including pre-sorting, and supports streamlined conversion of complex, multi-page documents. Moving beyond a solely template-based approach, the optional Form Recognition Module can identify and sort a wide variety of documents, such as invoices; read and extract the appropriate information from the documents; and then prepare this information for input into other applications, such as merchandise management or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

* Born Digital Module – This optional module is designed to convert digital documents – such as Microsoft Office, Outlook e-mail and born digital PDFs – into PDF/A format for long-term archiving. The Born Digital module enables users to easily batch process digital files, in the same way that scanned paper documents can be processed with the PDF Compressor 5.3.

Both the Born Digital Module and Form Recognition Module are optional features to the PDF Compressor. The Form Recognition Module, for which free-form recognition is now a standard feature, also includes a form designer and form validator. Pricing and demonstrations for both modules is available upon request. For more information or to download a trial version, please visit www.luratech.com or contact info@luratech.com.

About LuraDocument PDF Compressor:

LuraDocument PDF Compressor enables conversion of color, grayscale or black-and-white scanned documents into high-quality, highly compressed PDF and PDF/A files. Using LuraTech’s best-in-class, mixed raster content (MRC) layered compression technology, documents can be reduced up to 100 times smaller than their original size, while maintaining superior image quality and text legibility. These optimized compression results in lower storage costs and reduced bandwidth requirements. PDF Compressor also offers an integrated ABBYY OCR engine for full text search capabilities in all PDF and PDF/A files. Now, PDF Compressor can be enhanced by adding optional modules, such as Born Digital, Forms Recognition, and Digital Signature, while taking advantage of its unparalleled automated, batch conversion.

More information:

www.luratech.com/products/document-conversion-solutions/luradocument-pdf-compressor.html

About LuraTech:

LuraTech is a leading provider of software products that simplify the complex process of converting and managing scanned documents and digital image content. With a strong belief in value innovation, LuraTech develops open, ISO-compliant JPEG2000 and PDF/A solutions that are easy to implement and deliver an immediate return on investment. LuraTech’s products are widely used in a number of industries, including cultural heritage, finance, government, healthcare, insurance, legal, libraries/digital archives, manufacturing, museums and scan services.

“LuraTech continues to enhance its document conversion solutions with the features vital to businesses that must maintain their records electronically for years,” said Mark McKinney, LuraTech’s president. “With the move in businesses to become all ‘paperless,’ our Born Digital capabilities will enable the PDF Compressor to offer them an end-to-end solution for converting both scanned and born digital documents into PDF/A.”

By supporting PDF/A, the PDF Compressor provides users with the assurance that documents are archived in a format that will maintain their appearance and readability indefinitely, no matter which applications or systems were used to create them.

LuraTech’s full-featured PDF Compressor – including the Born Digital module – is easy to install and operate, and can be seamlessly integrated into existing workflows. The document conversion solution can reliably run unattended for both scanned paper and born digital documents. The PDF Compressor can convert color, grayscale or black-and-white documents into high-quality, highly compressed PDF and PDF/A files using LuraTech’s best-in-class mixed raster content (MRC) technology. It also offers an integrated ABBYY FineReader OCR engine for full text search capabilities in all PDF and PDF/A files.

Additional Enhancements

Earlier this month, LuraTech introduced free-form recognition capabilities for its optional Form Recognition Module. With free-form recognition, specific data – even if it appears in different places on the page from document to document – can be recognized and extracted, supporting automatic classification of semi-structured documents. These enhancements enable the PDF Compressor to identify and sort a wide variety of documents, read and extract the appropriate information and then prepare this information for input into other applications, such as merchandise management or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

Pricing for both of the optional modules – Born Digital and Form Recognition – is available upon request. (www.luratech.com/try-buy/product/pdf-compressor/download/1.html)

Demonstration at AIIM 2009

LuraTech will demonstrate its new Born Digital module, as well as free form recognition capabilities, at Booth 344 during the AIIM International Exposition and Conference, March 30-April 2, 2009, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.

About LuraDocument PDF Compressor

LuraDocument PDF Compressor enables conversion of color, grayscale or black-and-white scanned documents into high-quality, highly compressed PDF and PDF/A files. Using LuraTech’s best-in-class, mixed raster content (MRC) layered compression technology, documents can be reduced up to 100 times smaller than their original size, while maintaining superior image quality and text legibility. These optimized compression results in lower storage costs and reduced bandwidth requirements. PDF Compressor also offers an integrated ABBYY OCR engine for full text search capabilities in all PDF and PDF/A files. Now, PDF Compressor can be enhanced by adding optional modules, such as Born Digital, Forms Recognition, and Digital Signature, while taking advantage of its unparalleled automated, batch conversion.

More information:

www.luratech.com/products/document-conversion-solutions/luradocument-pdf-compressor.html

About LuraTech

LuraTech is a leading provider of software products that simplify the complex process of converting and managing scanned documents and digital image content. With a strong belief in value innovation, LuraTech develops open, ISO-compliant JPEG2000 and PDF/A solutions that are easy to implement and deliver an immediate return on investment. LuraTech’s products are widely used in a number of industries, including cultural heritage, finance, government, healthcare, insurance, legal, libraries/digital archives, manufacturing, museums and scan services.

For more information, visit the LuraTech website at www.luratech.com.

“The addition of an integrated free-form recognition tool now makes our PDF Compressor with Form Recognition Module an all-in-one product for processing incoming documents,” said Mark McKinney, LuraTech’s president. “Our software has expanded to include all the functions necessary to cover the entire sequence from scanner output to export for long-term archiving, including classifying and reading documents, compression, conversion to PDF and PDF/A, full text OCR and electronic signature integration.”

How Free-Form Recognition Works

With free-form recognition capabilities, specific data – even if it appears in different places on the page from document to document – can be recognized and extracted, supporting automatic classification of semi-structured documents. By including free-form recognition in the Form Recognition Module, the LuraDocument PDF Compressor can identify and sort a wide variety of documents, such as invoices, read and extract the appropriate information from the documents and then prepare this information for input into other applications, such as merchandise management or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

With this upgrade to the Form Recognition Module, LuraTech is moving beyond a solely template-based approach. The LuraDocument PDF Compressor with optional Form Recognition Module provides numerous new features, including the ability to:

1) Identify data anywhere on the page as a result of more flexible recognition rules;

2) Read lists, even if they continue on to subsequent pages on multi-page documents, such as invoices; and

3) Combine individual data fields that are dependent on other fields, such as street, city, state and zip code for addresses.

This latest version of the Form Recognition Module also includes an easy-to-use Form Designer, which enables users to define the recognition rules and fields to be read. Documents are then optionally classified and sorted by document type before their content is read and converted to XML files. This document-oriented approach enables the Form Designer to produce a XML files containing all information, even from multi-page documents, which PDF Compressor uses to produce the final results.

LuraTech also offers its Form Validator correction tool, which enables users to quickly correct recognition results and verify extracted data. If needed, documents can be post-processed manually, resulting in a recognition rate of 100 percent. As a result, even fields requiring manual entry can be recorded effectively. The Form Validator can be combined with any number of independent local post-processing workstations to ensure high throughput.

The Form Recognition Module, including free-form recognition capabilities, can be purchased as an optional feature for the LuraDocument PDF Compressor.

Demonstration at AIIM 2009

LuraTech will demonstration its new Form Recognition Module and free-form recognition at Booth 344 during the AIIM International Exposition and Conference, March 30-April 2, 2009, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.

About LuraDocument PDF Compressor

LuraDocument PDF Compressor enables conversion of color, grayscale or black-and-white scanned documents into high-quality, highly compressed PDF and PDF/A files. Using LuraTech’s best-in-class, mixed raster content (MRC) layered compression technology, documents can be reduced up to 100 times smaller than their original size, while maintaining superior image quality and text legibility. These optimized compression results in lower storage costs and reduced bandwidth requirements. LuraDocument PDF Compressor also offers an integrated ABBYY OCR engine for full text search capabilities in all PDF and PDF/A files.

More information:

www.luratech.com/products/document-conversion-solutions/luradocument-pdf-compressor.html

About LuraTech

LuraTech is a leading provider of software products that simplify the complex process of converting and managing scanned documents and digital image content. With a strong belief in value innovation, LuraTech develops open, ISO-compliant JPEG2000 and PDF/A solutions that are easy to implement and deliver an immediate return on investment. LuraTech’s products are widely used in a number of industries, including cultural heritage, finance, government, healthcare, insurance, legal, libraries/digital archives, manufacturing, museums and scan services.