Post on 30-Dec-2015
UNSD Workshop – Minsk - Dec 2008
Amir Angel Director of Government Projects
Supporting National Censuses
Top Image SystemsData Capture platform for Censuses
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Agenda
Who we are? TIS’s Platform for Censuses Questions & Answers Demo
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Number of people “Counted” by TIS in Censuses world wide
1,374,026,304
TIS’s Experience in Censuses Projects Turkey 1997 & 2000
Brazil 2000
Kenya 2000
South Africa 2001
Slovak Republic 2001
Hong Kong 2001
India 2002
Ireland 2002
Italy 2002 Cyprus 2002 Slovenia 2006 (Census of real estates) Ireland 2006 Hong Kong 2006 South Africa 2007 (Community Survey)
Thailand NSO 2008 (Community Survey)
Largest market share worldwide in census projects information
capture
Largest market share worldwide in census projects information
capture
TIS’s Experience in Censuses Projects
2010 RoundProjects Won: • Scottish Census 2011• Belarus 2009
Overview - Top Image Systems
Founded 1991
Data Extraction solutions. Specialized in Censuses
Projects.
Since 1996, traded on NASDAQ (TISA)
Since 2006, traded on TASE (TISA)
2 acquisitions in 2007
~250 employees
Local offices in:
Europe United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Benelux
Asia Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai,
Guangzhou (R&D) and Australia
USA North & Latin America
Israel R&D Headquarters
Present in app. 40 countries Strong partner network worldwide Around 800 installed systems worldwide
eFlow platform for Censuses
Top Image SystemsData Capture platform for Censuses
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The evolution of data capture in census projects
eFLOWeFLOWFrom OCR into IDR Solution
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TIS’s Census Data Capture Solution
Census Data base
Suggest a Single platform for all enterprise content
How does eflow read data?
Top Image SystemsData Capture platform for Censuses
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The Process Flow – Processing Center
CLASSIFY
Completion
RECOGNTION
EXPORT
Workflow Process
Database Host/ERP/Custom
Electronic Archive
InputOutput
Structured & unstructured information
Exception
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ScannedDocuments
eDocs and Facsimile
1313Scanning OCR Validation
Process integrality, implementing a work flow according to the client needs
Export
MFlexibilityctivator
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Flexibility
Flexibility
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The Process Flow
CLASSIFY
Completion
RECOGNTION
EXPORT
Workflow Process
Database Host/ERP/Custom
Electronic Archive
InputOutput
Structured & unstructured information
Exception
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ScannedDocuments
eDocs and Facsimile
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Advanced approaches Automatic EFI Matching
– Improving template recognition station speed via the “Force EFI” mechanism, a unique barcode posted on each page
Questioner integrity
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The Process Flow
CLASSIFY
Completion
RECOGNTION
EXPORT
Workflow Process
Database Host/ERP/Custom
Electronic Archive
InputOutput
Structured & unstructured information
Exception
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ScannedDocuments
eDocs and Facsimile
ICR
OMR OCR
Multiple Data Types
Recognition engines/technologies embedded in the platform
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Joshua
ICR A ICR B ICR C
Virtual Engine example to increase recognition
Voting Method
Automatic approaches Auto Coding
– Coding tasks and data validations performed on the data capture platform: a ‘cost-effective’ solution
– Use one of the statistic software's in the market like ACTR (Canadian statistical software for coding some fields)
– Use Approximate Search tools for improving results via DB (Exorbyte)
Dynamic Dictionary update– Lookup and dictionaries via DB
Form Out
Original TIFF EFI DIF
ROI
Reduce network traffic Reduce storage media
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The Process Flow
CLASSIFY
Completion
RECOGNTION
EXPORT
Workflow Process
Database Host/ERP/Custom
Electronic Archive
InputOutput
Structured & unstructured information
Exception
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ScannedDocuments
eDocs and Facsimile
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Completion Station – Page Mode
Field Group Mode Completion
Business Logic & Validation
Identify false positives Alpha & Numeric fields Highlight for verifications Quality control for ICR
Unique Tiling stations – Checking for false positives
Implementing Edits
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Analysis Of Current Form
Dictionaries– Owner name to actual address– Address Database
Date Of Birth : should match with Age Higher Education : Which 12th year of high school Age Of Mum : Child cannot be older than mum Religion : Detailed action Married : if not married shouldn’t have wife And more…
CodingComputer Assisted Coding by statistical experts as part of the data capture system (2nd level repair).
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Custom stations approach
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The Process Flow
CLASSIFY
Completion
RECOGNTION
EXPORT
Workflow Process
Database Host/ERP/Custom
Electronic Archive
InputOutput
Structured & unstructured information
Exception
1010 1
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10101010101010101010101010 001 101
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ScannedDocuments
eDocs and Facsimile
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Customized Exported DataExamples
XML
SQL
CSV
Tab Delimited
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Controller
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Monitoring and Management
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Modules
Statistical Data base– Statistical report to monitor the daily,
weekly, monthly rate per user/station– Quality checking using
Post Census Usage
Building of new Database for Census Agricultural Census Real Estate Census On going Surveys Tax Office Tourism Board Immigration Department Urban Development Board
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Summery
Data capture and IDR platform (paper, electronic, mobile) and not a recognition product
Proven solution in census data capture! no need to invest time and money in new technology and vendor, minimizing the risk
Extensive experience in the design, development and implementation of real census and other high volume form processing projects. Largest market share worldwide in the processing of census projects,
Huge experience based on long researches in the Census arena
Maximum flexibility, redundancy and robust platform ensuring you meet project timetable to release census results.