This is the third post in our ‘OCR in Action’ series, where we continue our exploration of OCR and intelligent document processing across leading cloud platforms. In this edition, we’re turning our focus to Google Document AI, a strong contender in the IDP space known for its cloud-native design and advanced AI-driven document understanding. Earlier […]
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This is the second post in our ‘OCR in Action’ series, where we take a practical look at the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and data extraction across the world’s leading cloud platforms. This time, we’re focusing on Azure AI Document Intelligence (formerly known as Form Recognizer). We kicked off the series by exploring AWS Textract. […]
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Follow-up to the FOI Modernization Project – Ministry of Citizens’ Services This case outlines the project for modernizing Freedom of Information Requests (FOI) for the British Columbia Ministry of Citizen Services. This project was successfully rolled out to 24 ministry clients by January 2024, and legacy FOI data( > 6TB ) was migrated. The next challenge was addressing […]
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Unstructured data is everywhere. Whether it’s scanned PDF files, copies of paperwork with scribbles in the margins, or even photos of handwritten notes, organizations are constantly handling documents that weren’t designed for easy data extraction. Valuable insights are hidden in these documents—if only they were easier to uncover. Traditional OCR Has Its Limits Optical Character […]
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Businesses can customize white-label applications as their own, saving the time and money required to develop an app from scratch and deal with the upkeep. The problem for developers, though, is that whenever the underlying mobile app or backend is modified, potentially hundreds of variants have to be dealt with one at a time—and it […]
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The adventure begins when our co-founder George calls with an emergency job for one of our previous clients. It’s not unusual for us to help out startups in this way, so we got on a call with the client’s technical team. They’d tried and failed to come up with a virtual printer to use with […]
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Sometimes you just want to look straight ahead and see everything you need to see. That’s what prompted an AOT team to cut options in order to improve the user experience of Form.io novices. You might think that the more options you can offer a user, the better, but in fact too much choice can […]
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Speed the Process and Cut the Tedium Shifting tedious tasks from humans to robots saves time and money, and often increases reliability. Robotic process automation (RPA) is a form of business process automation that takes full advantage of the speed and reliability of “bots.” When matched with the power of formsflow.ai, a forms workflow can […]
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An AOT team discovered how a monorepo pattern could help scale development of hundreds of customized retail ordering apps It’s all about themes and variations. I’ve always been curious about how large teams produce different applications with similar themes, so I’d been particularly happy to join an AOT project for a client with just those […]
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Privacy is a big selling point for Apple. As the company says, “We design Apple products to protect your privacy and give you control over your information.” But that can be a big pain for projects where an enterprise wants to manage the devices that end users employ to access its business software. In this […]
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Kali Linux is the go-to Linux distribution for penetration testers because of the countless tools it has for tasks like password cracking, network scanning, and all other tasks a penetration tester would need. In the past, one would need to install Kali Linux as the operating system on their computer, but now, a far more […]
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Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a modern platform for automating business tasks. Unlike traditional automation, RPA uses artificial intelligence (AI) to create intelligent robots that perform tedious tasks much more quickly and accurately than a human worker. Despite the headlines, RPA is not here to put employees out of work, but rather to automate tedious […]
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