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2/22/2010 |
Daily Camera |
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5 Questions with Jeff Gilb |
Jeffrey Gilb, Parascript's chief executive officer, spoke with the Camera
about his company, its contributions to technology and society, and its future.
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1/1/2010 |
Radiology Management |
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Using 'Voting' in CAD for Mammography to Lower False-Positive Rates |
According to the American Cancer Society, early research suggets that CAD systems help radiologists diagnose more early stage cancers that mammograms alone. But some doctors disagree about the accuracy of identifying cancers with CAD software.  |
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12/1/2009 |
Postal Technology International |
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Advanced Technology |
While the position of national posts as the sole providers of postal services is threatened by other industries, posts should look for opportunities that go beyond their central activities and traditional geographical markets.  |
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10/9/2009 |
PostCom: Association of Postal Commerce |
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Advances in Technological Alternatives to Mail |
For the past few years analysts have warned about the increasing threat of modern market trends to traditional postal services and questioned their viability in the new economic environment. Indeed, the postal industry has been affected by forces such as globalization, liberalization, deregulation, the opening-up of competition and technological advances.  |
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10/2/2009 |
Mailing Systems Technology |
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Optimizing Address Processing for Posts in Today's Economy |
More than ever posts are looking to minimize costs and improve efficiencies at all stages of mail processing. One way is to reduce the cost of automation by relying on smaller suppliers, which often come up with more efficient solutions than larger vendors.  |
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10/1/2009 |
Postal Technology International Showcase |
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New Technology, New Methods |
The effect of new technology on the demand for letter services is often exaggerated, and resulting positive opportunities can be missed.  |
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9/15/2009 |
PostCom: Association of Postal Commerce |
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The Next Step in Postal Services: The Digital Post |
Having the advantage of directly servicing the most consumers of any communication-related industry on earth, posts have the opportunity to convert expensive, paper-related, immobile postal mail service into an advanced and more robust form of hybrid service, offering consumers choices about paper or other media.  |
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9/11/2009 |
Banking Strategies |
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The Changing Face of Check Fraud |
Use of paper checks may be decreasing, but unfortunately the same cannot be said for check fraud.  |
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9/1/2009 |
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Context is King |
ICR (intelligent character recognition) has been around for a while and OCR (optical character recognition) even longer. Recent developments in character recognition enhancements promise to yield further cost savings from these advanced technologies.  |
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9/1/2009 |
Mail Magazine |
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Lake Michigan Mailers Sees Return on Investment After Six Months By Choosing The Right Equipment |
Lake Michigan Mailers decided on Engineering Innovation's EZ-Flats OCR Lite System, which incorporates Parascript's AddressScript CM as a single OCR engine, because it was the most cost-effective solution to obtain postal discounts for its 4,000-5,000 flats per day.  |
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9/1/2009 |
Postal Technology International |
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The Next Step: Digital Post |
The digital post office is the most innovative service, promising significant benefits to both customers and posts. The same technology that supports digital mailrooms provides the opportunity to digitize consumer mail, which may combine traditional, incoming mail sorting, document processing elements, and remotely accessible postal mail into a single automation solution.  |
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8/20/2009 |
BiometriTech |
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Biometric Signature Authentication for the Information Age |
Biometrics is an emerging technology that is quickly garnering wide attention for its promises to alleviate security breaches and offer solutions to key challenges, such as financial theft and fraud, faced by real-world enterprises.  |
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8/1/2009 |
Government Purchasing |
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Signature Verification |
As they seek to identify threats to security and safety, many municipal, provincial and federal government departments, banks and other financial institutions are increasingly demanding more reliable and affordable authentication and authorization systems for everyday activities.  |
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8/1/2009 |
Transaction Directory |
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Create Superior Forms Data Cleanliness |
Creating clean data from paper forms is not difficult and can be achieved by following four simple rules.  |
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7/1/2009 |
Transaction News |
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Automating Forms Processing: Determining Which Process Will Provide The Best Returns For Your Organization |
Regardless of your industry, chances are your company has experienced paper-overload. From billing to business reply cards to medical claims forms, it is clear that paper still plays a significant and integral role in the document workflow.  |
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6/1/2009 |
Transaction Directory |
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Calculating the Hidden Costs of Forms Processing |
It is not uncommon for organizations to underestimate the true expense of determining the cost of processing a form. With the significant gains that can be realized by automating forms processing, it is alarming that many organizations don't realize what they are actually spending or how much they could save with a more automated process.  |
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6/1/2009 |
Postal Technology International |
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Efficiency Optimiser |
More than ever posts are looking to minimise costs and improve efficiencies at all stages of mail processing. One way is to reduce the cost of automation by relying on smaller suppliers, which often come up with more efficient solutions than larger vendors.  |
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5/4/2009 |
Banks Systems & Technology |
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Addressing the Rising Cost of Check Fraud |
Check fraud results in the loss of billions of dollars a year for banks, financial institutions and retailers, regardless of size or location. Identity falsification, in particular has become widespread. Advances in technology are partly to blame. Banks and financial institutions are now turning to advanced fraud protection tools for assistance.  |
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5/1/2009 |
Mail: The Journal of Communication Distribution |
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International Mail-Sorting Automation in the Low-Volume Environment |
Modern world market trends - globalization, liberalization, deregulation - all require the postal industry to adapt to increased competition, changing customer behaviors and uncertain or lower mail volumes. Although image processing and address recognition technology have been used to speed up mail sorting and reduce manual data entry costs for more than a decade, the present day requires revisions to approaches and priorities.  |
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3/31/2009 |
Mailing Systems Technology |
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Region of Interest Location: The Object Location on Mail Pieces |
A key function of data capture systems often taken for granted is locating the desired objects on a form before they can be processed. These particular objects, known as 'Regions of Interest' (ROI), contain the critical information customers need to use their application.  |
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3/1/2009 |
Postal Technology International |
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ROI Marks The Spot |
In the postal industry, ROI location is a necessary step in mail forwarding and sorting applications for parcels, bundles, flats and letters. The typical ROIs in general include destination address blocks, barcodes, identification codes, return addresses and indicia, all of which may have independent ROI values or serve as landmarks that facilitate the search for a target ROI.  |
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3/1/2009 |
Bank Technology News |
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It's Time For Check Fraud Detection 2.0 |
Image exchange and archive are Check 21-enabled benefits that offer more in the way of fraud prevention. It is possible to use image exchange and archive services to minimize losses from check stock and signature fraud in the same way shared services are used for check verification.  |
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1/30/2009 |
Transaction Directory |
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2009 Prediction: Centralized Database to Help Fight Fraud |
Image exchange and archive offer many advantages, including cost reductions in storing and delivering check images versus their physical documents. However, the full benefits of image exchange and archive have not yet been fully exploited for fraud prevention purposes.  |
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1/7/2009 |
Mailing Systems Technology |
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Addresee Name Recognition - More Benefits to Postal Industry |
The automatic reading of an addressee name is the next important step to improving the quality of mail sorting technology. This capability will increase the finest depth of sort: the ability to extract a maximum of information from an address on a mailpiece.  |
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12/23/2008 |
Bank Systems and Technology |
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2009 Bank Tech Forecast: Banks Must Become Proactive to Stop Fraud |
Despite the steady decline in the number of checks written over the past few years, check fraud continues to be a major concern for banks and retailers. One of the benefits arising from the adoption of Check 21 that can help improve fraud prevention is part of the image exchange and archive process.  |
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12/15/2008 |
RT Image |
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Product Preview: Computer-Aided Mammograms |
Boulder, Colo.-based Parascript LLC introduces its AccuDetect 2.0, the next generation of its computer-aided detection (CAD) algorithms for mammography. Parascript AccuDetect 2.0 is intended to improve performance and increase potential for lowering false-positive rates in detecting suspicious lesions on mammograms.
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11/1/2008 |
Security Products Magazine |
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Verify the Signature |
Banks, governments demanding reliable authentication, authorization for everyday activities.  |
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9/29/2008 |
Mailing Systems Technology |
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Postal Automation: Even Further Benefits Are Possible |
Today the postal market is changing rapidly to adapt to a modern world market characterized by globalization, liberalization, deregulation and technological advances. In response to these challenges, postal operators have to act fast to adopt new strategies that will let their organizations become more flexible and adaptive.  |
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9/1/2008 |
Mailing Systems Technology |
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Lessons from Leading Companies: How to Choose the Best Incoming Mail Sorting Solution |
Processing high volume of incoming mail is a challenge for many mailrooms. Optical character recognition technology (OCR), high speed inline processing devices and advanced data processing capabilities are some of the factors that help to automate processing of incoming mail, improve accuracy, speed delivery and significantly reduce manual sorting costs.  |
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7/2/2008 |
Bank Systems & Technology |
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Taking ATM Fraud Prevention to the Next Level |
ATMs have become an essential component of consumer banking technology that continues to evolve. Customers rely on them for convenience. However, security is a big concern for both banks and consumers and is one of the reasons limiting ATM usage.  |
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7/1/2008 |
Credit Union BUSINESS |
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Electronic Evolution- How Check 21 Improves Services |
Discover how the move toward a paperless work environment has infiltrated the credit union to benefit not only all aspects of business but CU members as well. Reprinted with permission from Credit Union BUSINESS magazine.  |
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6/23/2008 |
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Mammography: A Vote of Confidence |
In this month’s installment of Examine | Mammography, Yuri Prizemin, the director of product marketing for Parascript LLC, Boulder, Colo., discusses how radiologists can apply voting technology to CAD to decrease its number of false-positive results.  |
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6/1/2008 |
Postal Technology International |
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Forgery Finder |
With absentee ballots and mail-in voting becoming increasingly common, an accurate automatic means of signature verifitication is needed. Yuri Prizemin explains how it all works.  |
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6/1/2008 |
Credit Union BUSINESS |
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Checking In On Remote Capture |
Some credit union members will view the move towards paperless banking with
skepticism. The benefits of remote capture, however, outweigh the learning curve
- for everyone involved. When approaching the concept of remote capture, credit
unions must identify the driving reasons for implementation. The following
suggestions will aid in that endeavor. Reprinted with permission from
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5/12/2008 |
GovPro.com |
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Automated Signature Technology Verifies Voters to Reduce Election Fraud |
Many states and municipal governments are counting on software to prove the authenticity of voters signing absentee ballots or mail-in votes.  |
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5/1/2008 |
Mailing Systems Technology |
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Efficient Sorting, Distributing and Processing of Incoming Mail Through Automation |
For small companies and large enterprises alike, mail continues to be an integral part of the document workflow. In a typical mail center today, 60% to 70% of the labor is spent sorting incoming and interoffice mail.  |
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3/5/2008 |
CIO |
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The Upcoming Election and Automating Signature Verification on Absentee Ballots and Mail-In Votes  |
Election fraud robs Americans of their voice in government and impacts political results across the nation. Since the most common form of identification used at the polls is a signature, many states and municipal governments are trying to ensure that their processes include signature authentication.  |
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3/1/2008 |
Medical Imaging |
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Parascript Enters Market with Mammo CAD |
There's a new kid on the block. Image analysis and pattern recognition provider, Parascript, LLC, now offers AccuDetect, CAD software for film-based or digital mammography exams. The introduction of AccuDetect marks Parascript's debut in the medical imaging market.  |
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3/1/2008 |
Postal Technology International |
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Speed Read |
OCR systems read addresses to make sure letters get where they need to go. Simon Jennings, from Postal Technology International, finds out how this technology continues to improve.  |
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3/1/2008 |
IndUS Business Journal |
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Colorado Software Company Checks Into Indian Market |
Parascript LLC recently introduced its universal check recognition and verification software, CheckPlus International, to banks and other payment processors for use in India.  |
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3/1/2008 |
Government Security News |
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Securing Documents Through Advanced Signature Verification |
Banks, financial institutions, municipal, state and federal governments are increasingly demanding more reliable, less expensive authentication and authorization systems for everyday activities, from performing financial transactions to boarding an aircraft, entering a secure physical location or crossing international borders.  |
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