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Scan-Optics LLC
Company type	Private
Industry	Information storage; Computer software; Enterprise information management
Founded	1968
Headquarters	Manchester, Connecticut, USA
Key people	Warren Fisher: CEO; Stacie Wolf: CFO; Gary Desmarais: VP, Eng; Lesa Rein: Dir., MKT/PreSales; Richard Strage: VP Sales; Pete Moralee: Man. Dir., Scan-Optics Limited (UK)
Products	Intelligent data capture for document-based business process automation, enterprise search, Document Imaging, High Speed Image Capture, Software and Technology Solutions, Process Workflow, Integrated Solutions, Data Recognition
Website	www.Scan-Optics.com

Scan-Optics LLC, founded in 1968, is an enterprise content management services company and optical character recognition and image scanner manufacturer headquartered in Manchester, Connecticut, USA. Becoming a woman-owned business and Patriarch Portfolio company in 2005^[1], helped Scan-Optics, LLC^[2] to weather a financial crisis caused by acquisitions that added to their business in service and software ^[3], but caused overall revenues and shares to drop in the late 1990's. Scan-Optics is now stable and growing again and holds national certification as a Women's Business Enterprise (WBE) by the Center for Women & Enterprise Certification Committee, (WBENC).

Scan-Optics' records management^[4], information and Data remanence and data backup and Data recovery services are supplied to customers throughout North America ^[5]^[6] and Europe^[7], while its industrial high-speed Digital imaging and OCR SO-series scanners are being used worldwide. Created in the 1960's by 4 Connecticut visionaries, who believed in the future of OCR, Scan-Optics was one of the pioneers driving the switch from carbon paper to copy machines. Scan-Optics drove many of the technology advances in the industry: Scan-Optics developed the image dissector tube and made it commercially available, pioneered an alphanumeric Handwriting recognition system, and introduced key data entry integrated with Optical Character Recognition via a direct computer-to-computer link to accomplish image reject repair. In a 1997 study Doculabs classified Scan-Optics' Intelligent character recognition as "a significant improvement over standard ICR technology" - in tests using 3,400 forms completed from a national sample of the general population, only Scan-Optics' ICR technology yielded a field read rate accuracy of approximately 90% ^[8] In recent years, Scan-Optics' breakthroughs ^[9] included acoustic double page detection, context edit ^[10], the integration of MICR and barcode reading into the recognition system ^[11], and the introduction of grayscale capability in OCR. ^[12]

References

^ "Scan-Optics, LLC Announces Acquisition by Patriarch Partners, LLC". businesswire.com. 2005-07-15. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
^ "Business Directory » Scan-Optics, LLC". insideview.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
^ "CORNERSTONE COMPLETES DEVELOPMENT OF DRIVER FOR SCAN-OPTICS 7800 HIGH-SPEED SCANNER". prnewswire.co.uk. 1996-09-24. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
^ "Scan-Optics Business Process Outsourcing Service". ecmconnection.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
^ "DSS Corporation Selects Scan-Optics for High-End Scanning". whattheythink.com. 2006-04-25. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
^ Ken Congdon (2004-03-01). "Frito-Lay's Blue-Chip Scanning Solution". fieldtechnologiesonline.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
^ "Scan Optics Ltd". http://directory.aiim.org. Retrieved 2013-05-01. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
^ "Doculabs reports on Scan-Optics ICR accuracy". kmworld.com. 1997-11-03. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
^ "Patentgenius: Scan-Optics Inc. Patents". patentgenius.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
^ "Farlex article: "Patent for Context Edit"". The Free Library. 1999-01-13. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
^ "Justitia: Patents by Assignee Scan-Optics, Inc. "". Justia.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
^ "Patentmaps: 20 Patents by Scan Optics – Assignee". patentmaps.com. Retrieved 2013-05-01.

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