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From Cyrillic to Chinese, we’ve got it covered.

In response to our globally operating customer base, Xtracta now offers multi-language support.  Increased globalisation brings with it the need to conduct business across time zones and languages.  While Xtracta has been able to interpret a variety of currencies, it can now read and extract documents in virtually any language – from Cyrillic to Chinese – in the same way that it can read documents in English, so you can now confidently upload a document in any language with full support.   For more information on this feature, please contact the Xtracta team today.  
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Touchless data capture from documents embedded in a HTML email

Xtracta can now extract data even when documents are embedded into an email body. The emails are converted into document format before the data extraction takes place. A handy tool for the minority of cases where documents are embedded inside of emails.   Extracting from embedded documents within an email adds to the variety of input channels that Xtracta already offers our customers, including email attachments, drag and drop within a web portal, SFTP and via the Xtracta mobile app.   For more information on this feature, please contact the Xtracta team today.
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New Software Partner Showcase: expensemanager

Australian expense management software provider, expensemanager has recently added Xtracta's touchless data capture functionality to their software, providing invoice and receipt data extraction and business process automation capabilities. Working through both a direct-to-customer channel and partnering within the ERP channel, expensemanager are a fast growing company bringing their customers the benefit of automatic document data extraction. We welcome them onboard as an Xtracta Software Partner. If you would like further details on the touchless data capture capability within expensemanager, please contact expensemanager on +61 2 9672 6880 or the Xtracta team.    
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Xtracta’s document pre-processing is now even faster!

While we are already able to extract data from documents in seconds, we know that every nano-second counts when processing vast numbers of documents.  So as part of our constant drive for innovation and improvement, Xtracta’s pre-processing function has been upgraded to deliver even increased reliability and processing speed.  This behind-the-scenes tool used to prepare the documents before the data extraction covers the steps of the initial OCR of the document and splitting of the pages into separate documents.  As a cloud based data capture solution our customers benefit from this increased speed immediately.   If you would like further…
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Five benefits of Data Extraction and Automation for SME’s

Businesses face many challenges in the modern business environment. Now more than ever, business leaders need to be constantly on lookout for more effective ways of managing jobs. By staying stagnant and not improving processes over time, will mean both short and long term growth will be affected. You may be thinking “We have done it this way for the last 10 years, why should we change now?” By evaluating your business continuously and investing in more efficient processes such as data Automation and extraction, your staff can spend more time on value added activities rather than lengthy, repetitive tasks.…
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Is Technology Replacing Bookkeeping?

Accounting automation -it’s a term that has been bouncing around the accounting and bookkeeping industry for the past few years. Automation allows accountants and bookkeepers to spend less time on the manual labour they have traditionally spent a majority of their roles on. That sounds ideal, however there has been discussion within the industry that automation is a tool that will replace accountants completely. And it’s partly true. Automation reduces the amount of time spent on manual tasks, for example data extraction, such as ABM Billfeeds, a service that is offered to all customers of ABM’s accounting software. This service…
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Scanning Tips

Document scanning is often given little thought or consideration. A bit of planning and knowledge about how to approach it can really help the outcomes and make the process faster and more hassle free. Scanner Choice There are a huge number of scanners available on the market. Some are dedicated single function scanners while other are part of a multi-function device with a scanning function alongside printing and copying. When making the choice of what scanner you want to use the three main factors affecting your decision are: Volume of documents you wish to process Your desired image quality level…