Scan-Optics


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.
Scan-Optics' records management, information, data remanence, data backup and Data recovery services are supplied to government and business customers throughout North America and Europe, while its industrial high-speed Digital imaging and OCR SO-series scanners are being used worldwide.

History and technology

Scan-Optics was founded in 1968 by four Connecticut men with financial backing from The Travelers Companies. Its goal of developing the brand-new and barely functioning optical character recognition technology. Scan-Optics was one of the technology groups enabling the transition from paper to digital.
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' ICR 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%
In recent years, Scan-Optics' developments included acoustic double page detection, context edit, the integration of MICR and barcode reading into the recognition system and the introduction of grayscale capability in OCR.